Spring Wildflowers of the San Francisco Bay RegionTo enjoy using this book, learn its limitations, for to ignore them will lead to frustration. With perhaps a thousand kinds of flowering plants in the San Francisco Bay Region, there are here included as spring wildflowers only about 300 kinds. Obviously many limitations had to be set and, nature lacking sharp boundaries, choices often had to be arbitrary. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 5 |
SPRING WILDFLOWERS IN THEIR NATURAL HAUNTS | 12 |
KEY TO SPRING WILDFLOWERS OF SAN FRANCISCO | 20 |
DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF SPRING WILDFLOWERS OF | 40 |
SUGGESTIONS | 178 |
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5-lobed annual Apr.-July Apr.-June Aquilegia formosa areas basal base Bay Region bloom blue Blue Larkspur botanist bracts Bracts of involucre Brodiaea Calandrinia ciliata California calyx Chap Clover clusters coast coastal Collinsia common name corolla dense disk-flowers douglasii erect Erigeron glaucus FAMILY Feb.-May flower-heads flower-stalk flowers foliage forests fruits genus Grass grasslands green H Petals hairs hairy heads heterophylla hills involucre Larkspur Layia leaf leaflets leaves Linanthus lobes lower lip Lupine Mch.-July Mch.-June Mch.-May Moist Oak Wood occas Orthocarpus ovary Oxalis oregana panicle Perennial perianth petals petals white Phacelia Pine pink pinnately pistil plants pods purple purplish raceme ray-flowers Redw Redw.-Doug roots sand-dunes seeds sepals sepals and petals shade slender species spring wildflowers stalks stamens Stem 1-2 ft style tall toothed umbel violet whitish wide wildflowers woodland woods or brush woody yellow