The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Excluding Florida

and The Native Orchids of Florida (Two Volumes)

by Carlyle A. Luer

Two volumes Hardcover Cloth 361 & 293 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jackets Very Good. Stated first editions 1972. Handsome beige buckram boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square set with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Books Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Unclipped dust jackets are smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. 

An exhaustive treatise of the species and varieties of orchids native to North America north of Mexico and Florida. Provides detailed information including copious line drawings and photographs of every taxonomy of the orchid species native to North America; and complete keys, descriptions, and distribution maps.

85 color plates in the first volume and 97 in the second with lots of black and white illustrations in both.

Carlyle A. Luer is a botanist and orchid specialist known for his work on the taxonomy and classification of orchids.