"A photographic guide to approximately 950 taxa of flowering plants found in the Sierra Nevada, with concise identification information and details intended to be understood by a non-botanist"-- Provided by publisher.
"A photographic guide to approximately 950 taxa of flowering plants found in the Sierra Nevada, with concise identification information and details intended to be understood by a non-botanist"-- Provided by publisher.
Joanna Clines has been the forest botanist for the Sierra National Forest since 1990. Clines served on the boards of the California Native Plant Society and the California Invasive Plant Council, and she is past president of the Sequoia chapter of CNPS. She lives in the Sierra Nevada and can be found botanizing on or off the job, often at dusk. Stephen Sharnoff wrote and illustrated A Field Guide to California Lichens , and he and his late wife, Sylvia Sharnoff, did the photographic fieldwork for Lichens of North America. A Guggenheim fellow, his photographs have appeared in numerous books, exhibitions, and magazines, including National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Science News. He lives in Santa Fe. Peter H. Raven, PhD, is president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Engelmann professor of botany at Washington University at St. Louis. Raven's botanical research and work in the area of tropical conservation have earned him numerous honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship. He has written 17 textbooks and more than 400 articles, and he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword by Peter Raven Acknowledgments Abbreviations, Measurements, and Symbols Color Thumbnails-at-a-Glance Index Introduction 1. Native People and Flowering Plants 2. How to Use This Guide 3. Basics of Plant Identification 4. Parts of Flowering Plants Used in Identification 5. Geophysical Features of the Sierra Nevada 6. Geology and Soils 7. Climate 8. Ecological Zones * Foothill * Montane * Subalpine * Alpine * Sagebrush/Pinyon-Juniper 9. Special Habitats * Rock Outcrops and Cliffs * Riparian Areas and Meadows * Burned Areas 10. Rare Plants 11. Invasive Non-native Plants 12. And Finally, a Couple of Notes of Caution Species Descriptions * Nymphaeales * Magnoliids * Eudicots * Monocots Glossary Bibliography Photo Credits Resources Index About the Authors
Foreword by Peter Raven Acknowledgments Abbreviations, Measurements, and Symbols Color Thumbnails-at-a-Glance Index Introduction 1. Native People and Flowering Plants 2. How to Use This Guide 3. Basics of Plant Identification 4. Parts of Flowering Plants Used in Identification 5. Geophysical Features of the Sierra Nevada 6. Geology and Soils 7. Climate 8. Ecological Zones * Foothill * Montane * Subalpine * Alpine * Sagebrush/Pinyon-Juniper 9. Special Habitats * Rock Outcrops and Cliffs * Riparian Areas and Meadows * Burned Areas 10. Rare Plants 11. Invasive Non-native Plants 12. And Finally, a Couple of Notes of Caution Species Descriptions * Nymphaeales * Magnoliids * Eudicots * Monocots Glossary Bibliography Photo Credits Resources Index About the Authors
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