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Article: Pictorial guide to alpine plants. (Guide).('Alpine Plants of North America: An Encyclopedia of Mountain Flowers from the Rockies to Alaska')(Book Review)
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- February 1, 2003
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Hike above the tree line almost anywhere in western North America and you're bound to see tiny clumps of flowers clinging tenaciously to arid scree-covered slopes. These are America's native alpine plants. When Graham Nicholls, a British nurseryman specializing in alpines, came to the United States to see these magnificent plants in the wild, he was surprised that no one had written a book about them yet. So he did, and quite successfully too--Alpine Plants of North America: An Encyclopedia of Mountain Flowers from ...