{"id":2071,"date":"2007-10-01T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/book-review-173\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T14:47:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T21:47:52","slug":"wild-orchids-of-the-pacific-northwest-canadian-rockies","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/wild-orchids-of-the-pacific-northwest-canadian-rockies\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Orchids of the Pacific Northwest &#038; Canadian Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/graphix\/WildOrchidsPacificNorthwest.jpg\" alt=\"Wild Orchids of the Pacific Northwest cover\" align=\"left\" \/> A field guide &#8220;to assist the user in identifying&#8221; the wild orchids throughout an expansion of our region that includes Alaska and western Alberta and Montana. Author Paul Martin Brown, of the University of Florida, has a series of similar titles covering all of North America except for the southwest; however he has clearly spent considerable time in our region. Appendices brim with reference materials, many trying to untangle the nomenclature of our orchids, but more romantic is the &#8220;Orchid Hunting&#8221; section with tips such as &#8220;watch for small, shaded cemeteries along the way.&#8221; Essays such as &#8220;The Correct Name for the Northwestern Twayblade&#8221; add to this slightly eccentric but fun book.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpted from the Fall 2007 <em>Arboretum Bulletin.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A field guide &#8220;to assist the user in identifying&#8221; the wild orchids throughout an expansion of our region that includes Alaska and western Alberta and Montana. Author Paul Martin Brown, of the University of Florida, has a series of similar titles covering all of North America except for the southwest; however he has clearly spent considerable time in our region. Appendices brim with reference materials, many trying to untangle the nomenclature of our orchids, but more romantic is the &#8220;Orchid&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/wild-orchids-of-the-pacific-northwest-canadian-rockies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wild Orchids of the Pacific Northwest &#038; Canadian Rockies<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","keyword":[318,22],"class_list":["post-2071","book","type-book","status-publish","hentry","keyword-orchidaceae-orchid-family","keyword-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/2071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"keyword","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keyword?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}