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The authors provide not only updated and detailed descriptions plus excellent color photos but also fascinating plant associations, such as using sand sagebrush as relief for intestinal ailments, and insect relationships, such as gall psyllids and hackberry. The organization and plant keys make available quick access to information about 166 Kansas species. A first-rate guide to the woody plants of Kansas! - Iralee Barnard, author of Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska

The authors provide not only updated and detailed descriptions plus excellent color photos but also fascinating plant associations, such as using sand sagebrush as relief for intestinal ailments, and insect relationships, such as gall psyllids and hackberry. The organization and plant keys make available quick access to information about 166 Kansas species. A first-rate guide to the woody plants of Kansas! --Iralee Barnard, author of Field Guide to the Common Grasses of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska This new field guide of the trees, shrubs, and woody vines of Kansas provides a very useful tool in exploring what grows around us. Professionals and backyard naturalists alike will enjoy learning from it. Michael Haddock and Craig Freeman are the ideal experts to provide the updated details of the plant characteristics and the helpful images that one needs to identify the 166 woody species that grow across the state and region. --Kelly Kindscher, author of Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide and Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide

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Michael John Haddock is associate dean of the Research, Education, and Engagement Division of K-State Libraries. Craig C. Freeman is senior scientist with the Kansas Biological Survey and senior curator at R. L. McGregor Herbarium at the University of Kansas. Haddock and Freeman are the authors, with Janét E. Bare, of Kansas Wildflowers and Weeds. Haddock is the author of Wildflowers and Grasses of Kansas: A Field Guide. Freeman is coauthor of An Illustrated Guide to Endangered or Threatened Species in Kansas and Roadside Wildflowers of the Southern Great Plains. All published by the University Press of Kansas.

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