"This one will quickly become a standard work for professionals and casual beach strollers alike." -- Chesapeake Bay Magazine
"A superb guidebook for amateur naturalists, students in a variety of ecology-oriented courses, and gardeners who wish to assess new species." -- American Horticulturist
"Illustrates superbly with black-and-white drawings the many species of plants in this coastal region." -- Baltimore Sun
"In a guide of pleasant surprises, perhaps the greatest discovery is that so much wildness and beauty -- things that are more and more associated with wilderness and remoteness -- can still be found so near at hand, nearly in the back pocket of most of the large cities of the mid-Atlantic." -- Philadelphia Inquirer