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National Audubon Society Field Guide Wildflowers - Eastern Region - http://amzn.to/1Op8c2v

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hey wassup turtles creek here with blackout outdoors today we're going to taking a look at the National Audubon Society field guide to wildflowers eastern region which is basically everything east of the Rocky Mountains this goes for about twenty dollars in the u.s. 30 in Canada but now that that's just uh let's just take a look at the book so I kept this little sleeve on it just for you to be able to see you know the name sort of what looks like if you're going to potentially pick this up but ideally I'm not going to carry that like that so let me take it off and show you first the reason I kind of like this book is it says you have to kind of like this plastic cover you can hear that it's just it's just the durability things this is a field guide meant to be taken into the woods so you want it to be durable you don't want to just destroy it after a couple times I've taken out in and out of your pack one of the nice things about this book let's just start looking at the pictures is that there's a whole bunch of color photography for you to be able to reference a flower you've seen in the forest and that's a really easy way to start identifying plants is when they're in flower because it's a super visible characteristic of a plant and right here my thumb's moving you know this sort of section of flowers are calling white elongated clusters and it kind of has a silhouette of what a flower the flowers might look like on a plant and I'll flip through and show you something else just show you randomly pick so then we have yellow radially symmetrical flowers and again right there's a little sort of silhouette or block colour of what the flowers might look like there's a whole bunch of pictures that are basically broken up with color of the flower in the beginning before you even get to that there's a whole bunch of information that you should familiarize yourself with there's a lot of specific language to botany and taxonomy specifically for flowers and I'm going to do a video we're actually go find a plant out in the woods and sort of use this guide and go through it to see it but there's introduction there's 32 pages of introduction that is chock full of really useful information that again i would highly recommend reading the introduction way before you even try using this book in the force depending on your experience with uh with flowers and plants in general so let's say we reference these color photos we were pretty good idea of the flower where we want to then proceed through the book to see all the descriptive information of the flower and then you turn into these pages or there might be a sketch or there will be a sketch then of the flower and you can see why color photography is really important because looking at this it's a lot difficult for me to even sort of visualize what that would look like in real life on the forest floor and obviously you read all this and sort of draw a picture of yourself in your own mind but having that color photography is super super great and most newer field guides in my experience they have way more photography as opposed to older ones where it's mostly just sketch all right for example just to give you a rundown of how the description of the plant is going to be laid out in the book so we have the common name purple locoweed underneath it we have its latin name which is oxy trop sis lamb lamberti I so I'm a little far from the book genus species then I give the description of it description on the flowers description of the leaves the fruit the height of the plant when it will be in flower type of habitat you expect to see it in the range meaning where it is in the world and then you have some comments and most guides you'll get a little bit of information maybe how it was used this in that but this is not a field guide to wild edibles and uses of plants this is mainly for identifying the plant that's a whole nother type of book if you want to know all the uses how it would use historically and prehistorically things like that and some field guides are better with the comments and the information they have and this one is in super heavy on uses it's sort of a a little it doesn't hurt this book in my mind's eye like this book in general but some feel guys are definitely better and not just ones in the US are the eastern US that I've used because i've used field guides when i've lived in california arizona and stuff like that so but all in all this is a this is a really good feel cotton and i would recommend it and in the back of the book you also have a glossary index and there's a lot of information in specific language for botany so it's really important to familiarize yourself with the language because when plants are going to be described they're going to be using the language of botany and taxonomy and there's a lot of Latin in that two of the species in the meaning behind the words so there's a reason why I'm doing this in the winter because there's a lot of information in this book and right now is a really good time to read this and get familiar with the language to that in the next three months or when spring comes in the first wild flowers start popping up you can be really familiar with the language and how to use a guide that you want to take out to the forest we're actually going to use this book and go find a plant and kind of go through the step process to use this book which I talked to and about and actually I can see it the actual plant we're going to do it's out of frame right now and just a little tidbit or a little challenge for you we're in Pennsylvania it's a plant that's a creeper growing on the ground and it has red fruit that persist throughout the winter can you guess it has some related videos for you over here for you to check out and check out our cards as well surely all want to talk to you about today so if you have any questions about this book or anything in general regarding plants field guides please let me know leave a comment I'll do my best to answer that this is creek with blackout outdoors later turtles