A practical, pocket-sized, and beginner-friendly wildflower guide for the North Star State.
Minnesota is home to more than just its famous "10,000 Lakes." If you look closely, you'll see that it also boasts a wide array of interesting and beautiful wildflowers, with no shortage of National and state forests, lakeshores, nature preserves, parks, scenic riverways, and wildlife refuges in which to find them. Made for wildflower hunters and casual hikers alike, Timber Press's In Bloom series are portable and accessible-to-everyone guides to the most prominent wildflowers you are likely to see in a given region. Whether it be colorful, showy plants, or the bizarre and deadly, these and more are presented here in this easy-to-use field guide that features text and photographs of some of Minnesota's more common and interesting wildflowers. Michael Homoya earned B.A. and M.S. degrees in botany at Southern Illinois University – Carbondale after which he taught science at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and biology at Southwestern Community College in North Carolina. For 37 years he served as Botanist/Plant Ecologist for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources before retiring in 2019. Homoya is a Fellow and former president of the Indiana Academy of Science and the Indiana Native Plant Society. His previous books include Orchids of Indiana, Wildflowers and Ferns of Indiana Forests: A Field Guide, Wake Up, Woods (a children's book) and Wildflowers of the Midwest (co-authored with Scott Namestnik). He was awarded the Distinguished Career Public Service Award from the Conservation Law Center, the Distinguished Scholar of the Year from the Indiana Academy of Science, and the Barbara J. Restle Lifetime Conservation Award from Sycamore Land Trust.
