Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia [Paperback]

Lloyd H. Snyder Jr. (Author)
LLOYD H. SNYDER JR. traveled each of Georgia's 159 counties studying and collecting ferns. He inventoried the ferns in Georgia's state parks, the Chattahochee National Recreation Area, and the Chattahoochee and Oconee National Forests.

James G. Bruce (Author)
JAMES G. BRUCE holds a doctorate in botany and taught for several years at the University of Georgia.

Incorporating over thirty years of field sightings with recent scientific advances, Lloyd Snyder and James Bruce present a complete illustrated guide--with descriptions, distribution maps, identification keys, and name derivations--to the more than one hundred species of ferns and fern allies to be found in Georgia. A basic source of the professional botanist, this guide should also prove useful to naturalists, conservationists, garden-club members, and hikers.Incorporating over thirty years of field sightings, Snyder and Bruce present a complete illustrated guide—with descriptions, distribution maps, identification keys, and name derivations—to the more than one hundred species of ferns and fern allies to be found in Georgia.