An innovative new addition to the teaching materials on plant systematics is always a welcome addition for instructors in a field with limited options for textbooks. This new edition of Contemporary Plant Systematics, first published in 1991, consists of 15 chapters addressing the following topics: significance of systematics, plant names, literature, identification, collecting and preserving, fern families, gymnosperm families, flowering plant terminology, dicots, monocots, history of classification, vascular plant origins, modern methods of systematics, endangered species, and the role of botanical gardens.