Author: Alice EastwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angiosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
A Key to the Common Families of Flowering Plants in California
Author: Alice EastwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angiosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
A Key to the Common Families of Flowering Plants in California
Author: Alice EastwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angiosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
General Key to the Families of Flowering Plants of California
Author: Willis Linn JepsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
California Plant Families
Author: Glenn KeatorPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520259246
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This volume enables readers to identify California's native and naturalized plants by learning to recognize plant families. The heart of the book contains user-friendly keys and descriptions of seventy major families prominent in California's natural environment.
A Simplified Key to the Major Families of California Flowering Plants
Author: Steven HartmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angiosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Key to Coastal and Chaparral Flowering Plants of Southern California
Author: Barbara J. CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angiosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Wild Flowers of California
Author: Mary Elizabeth ParsonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Illustrated Field Guide to Selected Rare Plants of Northern California
Author: Gary NakamuraPublisher: UCANR Publications
ISBN: 9781879906457
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
"This guide provides description and photographs of 149 rare or endangered plants found in 10 counties in Northern California. Each description is accompanied by a photo of the mature plant (where available), a photo of the plant in its native habitat, a line art illustration of the plant showing diagnostic features, and a map showing the quadrangles where the plant has been found."--NHBS Encironment Bookstore.
The Wild Flowers of California
Author: Mary Elizabeth ParsonsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330475379
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Excerpt from The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits "Were I, O God, in churchless lands remaining, Far from all voice of teachers or divines, My soul would find in flowers of thy ordaining Priests, sermons, shrines!" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Weeds of California and Other Western States
Author: Joseph M. DiTomasoPublisher: UCANR Publications
ISBN: 1879906694
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 979
Book Description
This encyclopedic yet easy-to-use 2-volume set covers 262 individual entries, including a full description of 451 species and another 361 plants compared as similar species, representing 63 plant families. 13 shortcut identification tables for groups that share similar, unusual, or relatively uncommon characteristics. 2 grass identification keys - a key to all characteristics including inflorescences and reproductive parts and a key to vegetative characteristics only. 67 tables comparing important characteristics of difficult-to-distinguish weedy species. Color photos of over 700 weeds including seeds, seedlings, flowers, and mature plants. Appendix of non-native plants rarely or occasionally naturalized in California. Glossary of botanical terms. Bibliography of some of the most pertinent publications. Index to common names, scientific names, and synonyms. Each entry describes the plant category, family name, common name, and synonyms along with a summary of the important aspects of the plant’s life cycle, size, growth form, impact, method of introduction, and toxicity. You'll also find a description of the seedling, mature plant, roots and underground structures, flowers, fruits and seeds, spikelets and florets, spore-bearing structures, and post senescence characteristics for each entry. Also includes a description of the habitat where each is typically found and distribution in California, other states, and worldwide, along with maximum elevation at which the species is found. Rounding out each entry is a description of the methods of reproduction, seed dispersal, germination requirements and conditions, seed survival and longevity, early establishment characteristics and requirements, cultural practices and management options that have proven effective or ineffective in controlling infestations, and a notation of the species' inclusion on federal or state noxious weed lists.