A Golden nature guide

Pictures of 140 common trees, identifying their leaves, fruit, form, range, and uses.

A guide to approximately 200 of the most commonly viewed American wildflowers, with 134 color paintings. Flowers are grouped by color.

A guide to plants which reproduce without bearing flowers, including a general introduction and suggested activities. Divided by type of plant: algae, fungi, lichens, mosses, liverworts, ferns, and gymnosperms.

Descriptions and identifications of species of seashells from all over the world. Full-color photographs make identification very easy and quick.

Includes information on collecting and identifying minerals, and sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem and rock-forming minerals, and on igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.

Includes information on collecting and identifying minerals, and sections on metallic, nonmetallic, gem and rock-forming minerals, and on igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks.

Describes the many small plants that do not produce flowers, but which we find around us every day, such as ferns, mushrooms and mosses.

Sections on turtles, lizards, snakes, alligators and crocodiles, frogs and toads, and salamanders give information on description, habits and range for each species common in the United States.

Describes the many spiders of the world and some of their relatives such as the scorpion and mites.