Dr. Garrett Crow, who taught Field Botany at Au Sable in the summer of 2022, has announced the second edition of Aquatic and Wetland Plants of Northeastern North America. The book is dedicated to Dr. Harold Snyder and the Au Sable Institute. Wetland ecologists, botanists, resource managers, students of environmental sciences, lake association managers, public naturalists, and environmentalists concerned with the preservation of increasingly threatened wetland areas will welcome this updated, clear, workable, and comprehensive guide.

We are incredibly grateful for Garrett, his long history with Au Sable, and all he does to promote our mission to serve, protect, and restore God’s earth!

The book can be purchased from the University of Wisconsin Press website. A description of the book from the publisher’s website reads:

This second edition of Garrett E. Crow and C. Barre Hellquist’s widely acclaimed work provides the most comprehensive and illustrated guide to the native and naturalized vascular plants—ferns, conifers, and flowering plants—growing in aquatic and wetland habitats in northeastern North America, from Newfoundland west to Minnesota and south to Virginia and Missouri. The first edition, published in 2000, completely revised and greatly expanded Norman Fassett’s 1940 classic A Manual of Aquatic Plants, retaining the features that made his book so useful. Since the first edition was published, many changes have occurred in the world of botany—in both taxonomy and nomenclature—especially thanks to the widespread application of molecular techniques in research. This second edition brings the information up to date and adds numerous species, all in a single user-friendly volume.