The book gives a brief but thorough introduction to the history of the park and the study of its flora, then settles into explanations about how to use the guide, including keys and definitions to help narrow the search when you find a specimen to identify. “It dawned on us that we couldn’t just leave the list,” he said.Īnd that’s when the idea of a field guide took root.įive years later, the first edition was published. Gregory - felt that it needed to reach more of the public. Mittelhauser said that he and his fellow authors - botanists Jill E.
That work led to several published reports, leading to final publication in Rhodora, the journal of the New England Botanical Club, in 2005, two years after Greene died. Craig Greene of College of the Atlantic began a wide-reaching collaboration to create a comprehensive flora of the park, working with botanists, park biologists and his COA students, including some of the new book’s authors.
Throughout the 20th century, more work was compiled on the park’s plants, but it wasn’t until the early 1980s that Dr. The publisher is University of Maine Press. Nearly a century later, that same group is one of the forces behind the “The Plants of Acadia National Park,” partnering with Friends of Acadia and Maine Natural History Observatory, a nonprofit research organization based in Gouldsboro whose director is Mittelhauser. In 1928, Wherry authored “Wild Flowers of Mount Desert Island, Maine,” a guide published by the Garden Club of Mount Desert. An amateur botanist, John Redfield, started his own study two years later and joined forces in 1888 with Champlain Society member Edward Rand, a collaboration that led to the publishing of “Flora of Mount Desert Island, Maine” in 1894.Ī flurry of additions from numerous sources followed over the years, including the work of Edgar Wherry, who compiled the additions and published them. The work began scores of years ago in 1880 by the Champlain Society, a Harvard University group that catalogued the flora of Mount Desert Island. And that may be the most impressive piece.
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