Weeds of the Northeast

By Richard H. Uva, Joseph C. Neal, AND Joseph M. DiTomasco

Here at last is a lavishly illustrated manual for ready identification of weeds in the region south to Virginia, north to Maine and southern Canada, and west to Ohio and Wisconsin. Based on vegetative rather than floral characteristics, this practical guide gives anyone who works with plants the ability to identify 298 common and economically weeds before they flower.

• A dichotomous key to all the species described in the book is designed to narrow the choices to a few possible species. Identification can then be confirmed by reading the descriptions of the species and comparing a specimen with the drawings and photographs.
• A fnew-out grass identification table provides diagnostic information for weedy grasses in an easy-to-use tabular key.
• Specimens with unusual vegetative characteristics such as thorns, square stems, whorled leaves, or milky sap, can be rapidly identified using the shortcut identification table.

The first comprehensive weed identification manual for the Northeast, this book will facilitate appropriate weed management strategy in any horticultural or agronomic cropping system and will also serve home gardeners and landscape managers as well as pest management specialists and allergists.

The paperback is bound with a durable cover.

Robert H. Uva is a doctoral candidate at Cornell University.

Joseph C. Neal is Associate Professor of Weed Science at North Carolina State Uiversity, Raleigh.

Joseph M. DiTomaso is Associate Weed Specialist at the University of California, Davis.

414 pp. 746 color photographs. 118 line drawings. 17 tables.
A Comstock Book

ISBN 0-8014-3391-6 Cloth $60.00

ISBN 0-8014-8334-4 Paper $29.95