Book Review: "Aquatic Plants of Wisconsin"

This book is an essential botanical reference for anyone interested in Midwestern plants; it is absolutely essential for anyone interested in the identification of aquatic macrophytes, far exceeding in clarity of presentation and photography any published North American aquatic plant guide. The full color, high resolution photos by Paul are superb and show all of the diagnostic characters needed to name these difficult-to-identify plants, for example the pondweeds (pages 50-71 ) and bladderworts (pages 38-43). I had the great good fortune to have Paul in my UWSP aquatic macrophytes class in 2009 and he was amazing. He was clearly more knowledgeable about these plants than his professor, but wore his learning lightly and functioned as a super-TA to my other students.

Paul tells me that 750 copies of this guide have been printed. I’ve picked up two and advice others to buy while they can. This book is an instant classic and will be quickly snapped up.