Newcomb's Wildflower Guide

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Summary: Buyer Beware - Not As Advertised
Review: This book is for the Northeast only. Nowhere was this mentioned. One review even mention coast to coast. The title and description leave out the geographical limitations. This book is now worthless and I feel robbed!!!!! Buyer beware!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating:
Summary: Almost Great ...
Review: This guide would be great IF more of its illustrations were in color. I mean, really, a wildflower IDENTIFICATION guide with mostly black and white pen drawings? The few color pages in the guide prove my point! If only they had asked me before publishing ...

Rating:
Summary: Hands-down best (for the Northeast)
Review: This is the easiest-to-use and most thorough flower guide I've ever seen. Yes, most illustrations are black-and-white. It's an initial disappointment; however, the quick and sure five-step identification process is worth the lack of color (and the drawings are expertly done). It's much more complete than, say, the Audubon guide. Newcomb has yet to leave me stumped for the identity of any flowering plant. As has been noted, this guide is valid for the Northeast U.S., from Virginia-Kentucky up; and for Canada from Thunder Bay to Newfoundland. I wish the rest of you had a version -- it's indispensible.

Rating:
Summary: Hands-down best (for the Northeast)
Review: This is the easiest-to-use and most thorough flower guide I've ever seen. Yes, most illustrations are black-and-white. It's an initial disappointment; however, the quick and sure five-step identification process is worth the lack of color (and the drawings are expertly done). It's much more complete than, say, the Audubon guide. Newcomb has yet to leave me stumped for the identity of any flowering plant. As has been noted, this guide is valid for the Northeast U.S., from Virginia-Kentucky up; and for Canada from Thunder Bay to Newfoundland. I wish the rest of you had a version -- it's indispensible.