The botanist's eye : identifying the plants around you
Join an experienced botanist to learn how to identify... and better appreciate the marvelous diversity of plant species.
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| Victoria | Available |
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- ISBN: 9781644650165
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Physical Description
videodisc
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. - Publisher Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, 2020.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from disc label. Course No. 9054. 24 lectures (30 min. each). GMD: videodisc. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Disc 1. : Why learn the names of plants? -- Before there were flowers -- Plants are named like people -- Organizing the huge diversity of plants -- The language of botany -- What the terms Monocot, dicot, and eudicot tell you -- disc 2: Parts of three -- Monocots: orchids, asparagus, and irises -- Grassy monocots: grasses and relatives -- Early eudicots: buttercups and poppies -- Eudicots: crassula, euphorbs, and willows -- Eudicots: peas and beans -- disc 3: Rose eudicots: roses, mulberries, and elms -- Eudicots: squashes, oaks, and birches -- Eudicots: maples, cashews, and chocolate -- Brassica eudicots: the mustards -- Pink eudicots: pinks, cacti, and relatives -- Heath and dogwood eudicots -- disc 4: Gentian eudicots from milkweed to coffee -- Tomato-type eudicots -- Minty eudicots with liplike flowers -- Sunflower eudicots: more than you think -- Parsley eudicots: plants with umbels -- Now you see plants. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Lecturer, Catherine Kleier, PhD., California Polytechnic State University. |
| System Details Note: | DVD, NTSC. |
| Language Note: | In English ; closed-captioned. |