Common Interior Alaska Cryptogams

This first field guide to cryptogams of the Denali National Park and Preserve provides a comprehensive coverage of common interior Alaska mushrooms, mosses and liverworts.
A fully illustrated compendium with detailed illustrations, photos and a glossary, covering mushroom fungi, lichenized fungi, lichenicolous fungi, slime molds, mosses, and liverworts, the guide provides a basis for understanding their vast diversity of taxa, speciation, edibility, relative abundance, and utility, as well as the ecological roles played by these organisms. Entries include family, genus, and species, field characteristics, micro and macro descriptions; habitat and role; and edibility.
Suitable for both occasional mushroom hunters as well as professional workers.

Paperback. 256 pages, 338 color figures, 113 b&w figures.

9781602230583