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Title: BROADLEAVED HERBACEOUS FLORA OF SOUTH TEXAS UTILIZED BY LIVESTOCK AND WILDLIFE

Author
item Everitt, James
item DRAWE, D - WELDER WILDLIFE,SINTON,TX
item LONARD, ROBERT - UT-PAN-AM UNV,EDINBURG,TX

Submitted to: Texas Tech Press
Publication Type: Book / Chapter
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/12/1997
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: This publication (book) contains color photographs, the family names, scientific names, and ecological characteristics of broadleaved, herbaceous plants (forbs) that occur in southern Texas. Plant keys are provided for the families, genera, and species covered. Plants represented are of importance to wildlife, livestock, and man, and the reasons or characteristics for their importance are emphasized. This work focuses on plants that occur in southern Texas, but the extensive ranges of many of the represented species make it a useful reference for plants of other areas of Texas, the southwestern United States, and northern Mexico. Some 185 species encompassing 143 genera and 51 families are represented. Most of the plants represented are native to the region, but some introduced species are also included. This publication will be useful to ranchers and range managers, natural resource and wildlife management personnel, scientists, and anyone interested in the flora of southern Texas. It will enable one to identify many of the herbaceous plant species in this region. Information provided on the ecological characteristics of the plants represented will be useful to help develop sound land management programs.