![]() ![]() ![]() Images showing family characteristics help initiate the ID process. The book itself provides an identification key inspired by the popular Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, but unlike Newcomb’s it’s illustrated with color photos instead of drawings. ![]() It’s strange to learn Queen Anne’s lace, which takes over whole fields here inland, is uncommon on the islands. A look through the copiously illustrated guide reveals that many wildflowers seen abundantly on the Midcoast mainland are also common on the islands, but many, surprisingly, are not. ![]() “There is much difference in the coastal plants found southwest of Muscongus Bay,” Mittelhauser tells us in the introduction, due to the effects of the cold Labrador Current and the diversity of habitats among the islands of Knox, Waldo, Hancock, and Washington counties. But differently in different geographies, we gather from Glenn Mittelhauser’s new guide, Wildflowers of Maine Islands. Mittelhauser University of Maine Press, 2021Įvery April and May in Maine the world starts to turn color again. Wildflowers of Maine Islands: The Downeast and Acadia Coastsīy Glen H.
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