Cape Cod Wildflowers: A Vanishing Heritage

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Cape Cod Wildflowers, the only comprehensive, Cape-specific wildflower book, is back in print, with a new preface by the authors. In the little more than a decade since the book’s original publication in 1989, development has increasingly more encroached on the rich indigenous flora of the Cape, getting rid of purple milkweed and yellow thistle there, and lending this guidebook ever greater relevance and poignancy.

Cape Cod Wildflowers features stunning color illustrations of each and every Cape wildflower, grouped by habitat and complemented by appealing and informative narrative entries. Those who have never experienced the untrammeled Cape Cod lauded by Thoreau and Beston, and people who have witnessed the more latest and rapid degradation of the Cape’s moors, sandplain grasslands, and barrens, will delight in this celebration of Cape Cod wildflowers. The authors address the knowledgeable in addition to the novice reader who is at all times appreciative of, interested in, and willing and ready to rise to the defense of native plants. As they wrote in their introduction to the first edition, Cape Cod Wildflowers “is an appreciation, a guide, and a plea for protection.” This book is a will have to for Cape residents, tourists, naturalists, botanists, and wildflower enthusiasts all over.

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