in answer to scott shumway's query:
Wendy Zomlefer's Guide to Flowering Plant Families is a good,
relatively inexpensive (~$30.) guide. it is not a textbook - but has
served me well as a reference book. i do not use it with my classes.
sandra
To: plant-ed at net.bio.net
Subject: plant families
Date sent: 19 Oct 2001 19:32:31 +0100
From: sshumway at wheatonma.edu (Scott Shumway)
Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre
> I use Raven et al as a textbook for my sophomore level botany class which
> currently covers plant anatomy and a survey of the plant kingdom. Over
> time I have cut out coverage of physiology and of algae in order to spend
> more time on the plant survey. I think that it is important for students
> to know something about the major flowering plant families. I attempt to
> teach them about 25 flowering plant families. The problem is that Raven
> has no coverage of plant families. Other general botany texts have very
> little on plant families. It is inappropriate to require my class to
> purchase another $100 textbook on plant taxonomy. While I might study
> texts like Walters and Keil (Vascular Plant Taxonomy) or Cambell, Judd, et
> al (plant systematics: a phylogentic approach - I'm going from memory so I
> don't have the exact authors or title), these texts contain much more
> detail than my students need to learn. Is there a reasonably priced,
> appropriately illustrated and user-friendly guide to flowering plant
> families? Is there a general textbook that includes a limited survey of
> plant families and also has a depth of coverage similar to Raven et al?
>> Scott Shumway
> Associate Professor of Biology
> Dept. of Biology
> Wheaton College
> Norton, MA 02766
> 508-286-3945
>sshumway at wheatonma.edu> fax 508-285-8278
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Sandra L. Johnson, Ph.D.
Plant Physiological Ecologist
Middle Tennessee State University
Biology Department PO Box 60
Murfreesboro, TN 31732
Phone: (615) 898-2021
FAX: (615) 898-5093
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