Author: Bob MunsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Summaries of the Major Plant Families of Southern California
Author: Bob MunsCalifornia Flora
Author: Bob MunsCalifornia 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.
California Plant Families
Author: Glenn KeatorPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520237094
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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 Key to the Common Families of Flowering Plants in California
Author: Alice EastwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Angiosperms
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
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.
A Flora of Southern California
Author: Philip Alexander MunzPublisher:
ISBN: 9780520021464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
This book includes descriptions of more than 4,000 species, of which more than 600 are illustrated with line drawings. The bulk of the work is devoted to the systematic treatment of vascular plants, which are grouped alphabetically by family, genus, and species. There are keys for the identification of all taxa.
Guide to Flowering Plant Families
Author: Wendy B. ZomleferPublisher:
ISBN: 9780807844700
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction. Choice of classification. Choice of families and family list. Family treatments. Dicotyledons and monocotyledons: an example of paraphyly. Observing, dissecting, and drawing flowering plants. Plant families.
A Manual of Southern California Botany
Author: Philip Alexander MunzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Distribution of Southern California plants. General key to families. Descriptive flora (treatment of families).
Introduction to California Plant Life
Author: Robert OrnduffPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520936957
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
California’s unique plants range in size from the stately Coast Redwoods to the minute belly plants of the southern deserts and in age from the four-thousand year-old Bristlecone Pines to ephemeral annuals whose life span can be counted in weeks. Available at last in a thoroughly updated and revised edition, this popular book is the only concise overview of the state’s remarkable flora, its plant communities, and the environmental factors that shape them. * 188 color photographs illustrate plants and typical plant communities around the state * New chapters give expanded discussions of the evolution of the California landscape, recent changes in California's flora, and more * Introduces basic concepts of plant taxonomy and plant ecology through clear examples and covers topics such as soil, climate, and geography