How to know the wild flowers : $b a guide to the names, haunts, and habits of our common wild flowers

"How to Know the Wild Flowers" by Frances Theodora Parsons is a late 19th-century guidebook created for nature enthusiasts eager to identify common wildflowers. It explains different flowers by their colors, blooming seasons, and where they grow, enhancing the appreciation of nature through botanical understanding. The book's introduction emphasizes how learning about wildflowers deepens outdoor experiences, while the author's preface shares the goal of making plant identification easy for everyone, regardless of botanical background, thus establishing a friendly and rewarding connection with the natural world.