Introduction to California Plant Life: Revised EditionCalifornia’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 |
Contents
I | 4 |
II | 6 |
III | 17 |
IV | 21 |
V | 28 |
VI | 31 |
VII | 34 |
VIII | 42 |
XXXII | 125 |
XXXIII | 152 |
XXXV | 200 |
XXXVI | 212 |
XXXVII | 231 |
XXXVIII | 236 |
XXXIX | 237 |
XL | 241 |
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Introduction to California Plant Life Robert Ornduff,Phyllis M. Faber,Todd Keeler-Wolf No preview available - 2003 |
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Popular passages
Page 303 - Darwin and his flowers: The key to natural selection. New York: Taplinger Publishing.
Page 304 - Bossard, CC, JM Randall, and MC Hoshovsky, eds. 2000. Invasive plants of California's wildlands. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Page 309 - L. 1949. Evidence for the genetic submergence of Pinus remorata. In, Genetics, paleontology, and evolution, p. 356-362. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press. Mason, Herbert L., and W. Palmer Stockwell. 1945. A new pine from Mount Rose, Nevada. Madrono 8: 61-63. Mastrogiuseppe, Ronald J. (n/d) Geographic variation in foxtail pine. 14 p., illus. (Unpubl. rep. on file at the Pacific SW. Forest & Range Exp.
Page 304 - Bowerman, Mary L. 1944. The flowering plants and ferns of Mount Diablo, California. 290 p., illus.