Critic's Choice Essay: "Being a Method proposed for the ready finding ... to what Sort any Plant belongeth"

Abstract

As any ONPS member will attest, it doesn’t take many field trips into the  prairies and forests of Oklahoma to encounter an unknown plant and have to ask, “What is it?” The easiest way to identify it is disarmingly simple; ask someone who knows! This approach works well when an expert is near at hand, ready to name plants.