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Interest in California's beautiful native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers is at an all-time high. Yet identification and classification of the state's vast and varied flora can be challenging for both amateurs and professionals. This book provides a superb way for learning 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 wildlands. With this book in hand, anyone will be able to identify common native and naturalized species throughout California's majestic floristic province extending from southwestern Oregon into northern Baja California and to the western side of the major mountain ranges.
Price: $20.95
Pages: 224
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
10 June 2009
ISBN: 9780520943247
Format: eBook
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
IMPORTANT PLANT FAMILIES IN CALIFORNIA
HOW PLANT FAMILIES, GENERA, AND SPECIES ARE NAMED
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
Key to California Plant Families
California Plant Family Accounts
ACERACEAE (MAPLE FAMILY)
AGAVACEAE (AGAVE FAMILY)
AIZOACEAE (ICEPLANT FAMILY)
ALLIACEAE (ONION FAMILY)
ANACARDIACEAE (SUMAC FAMILY)
APIACEAE (PARSLEY OR CARROT FAMILY)
APOCYNACEAE (DOGBANE FAMILY)
ARECACEAE (PALM FAMILY)
ASTERACEAE (DAISY, COMPOSITE, OR SUNFLOWER FAMILY)
BERBERIDACEAE (BARBERRY FAMILY)
BETULACEAE (BIRCH FAMILY)
BORAGINACEAE (BORAGE OR FORGET-ME-NOT FAMILY)
BRASSICACEAE (MUSTARD FAMILY)
CACTACEAE (CACTUS FAMILY)
CAMPANULACEAE (BELLFLOWER FAMILY)
CAPPARACEAE (CAPER FAMILY)
CAPRIFOLIACEAE (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY)
CARYOPHYLLACEAE (PINK FAMILY)
CHENOPODIACEAE (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY)
CONVOLVULACEAE (MORNING GLORY FAMILY)
CORNACEAE (DOGWOOD FAMILY)
CRASSULACEAE (STONECROP OR LIVE-FOREVER FAMILY)
CUCURBITACEAE (GOURD OR CUCUMBER FAMILY)
CUPRESSACEAE (CYPRESS FAMILY)
CYPERACEAE (SEDGE FAMILY)
EPHEDRACEAE (JOINT-FIR FAMILY)
ERICACEAE (HEATHER FAMILY)
EUPHORBIACEAE (SPURGE FAMILY)
FABACEAE (LEGUMINOSAE; PEA OR LEGUME FAMILY)
FAGACEAE (OAK OR BEECH FAMILY)
GENTIANACEAE (GENTIAN FAMILY)
GERANIACEAE (GERANIUM OR CRANESBILL FAMILY)
GROSSULARIACEAE (GOOSEBERRY FAMILY)
HIPPOCASTANACEAE (HORSE-CHESTNUT FAMILY)
HYDROPHYLLACEAE (WATERLEAF FAMILY)
IRIDACEAE (IRIS FAMILY)
JUNCACEAE (RUSH FAMILY)
LAMIACEAE (MINT FAMILY)
LAURACEAE (LAUREL FAMILY)
LILIACEAE (LILY FAMILY)
LOASACEAE (BLAZING STAR FAMILY)
MALVACEAE (MALLOW FAMILY)
MYRTACEAE (MYRTLE FAMILY)
NYCTAGINACEAE (FOUR O’CLOCK FAMILY)
OLEACEAE (OLIVE FAMILY)
ONAGRACEAE (EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY)
ORCHIDACEAE (ORCHID FAMILY)
PAPAVERACEAE (POPPY FAMILY)
PINACEAE (PINE FAMILY)
PLATANACEAE (PLANE TREE FAMILY)
POACEAE (GRASS FAMILY)
POLEMONIACEAE (PHLOX FAMILY)
POLYGONACEAE (BUCKWHEAT FAMILY)
PORTULACACEAE (PORTULACA OR PURSLANE FAMILY)
PRIMULACEAE (PRIMROSE FAMILY)
PTERIDACEAE (BRAKE FERN FAMILY)
RANUNCULACEAE (BUTTERCUP OR CROWFOOT FAMILY)
RHAMNACEAE (BUCKTHORN FAMILY)
ROSACEAE (ROSE FAMILY)
RUBIACEAE (MADDER OR COFFEE FAMILY)
RUTACEAE (RUE OR CITRUS FAMILY)
SALICACEAE (WILLOW FAMILY)
SAXIFRAGACEAE (SAXIFRAGE FAMILY)
SCROPHULARIACEAE (FIGWORT OR SNAPDRAGON FAMILY)
SOLANACEAE (POTATO OR NIGHTSHADE FAMILY)
TAXACEAE (YEW FAMILY)
TAXODIACEAE (REDWOOD OR BALD-CYPRESS FAMILY)
THEMIDACEAE (BRODIAEA FAMILY)
VERBENACEAE (VERBENA FAMILY)
VIOLACEAE (VIOLET FAMILY)
Glossary
Common Plant-Names Index
Scientific Plant-Names Index
About the Author and Illustrator
Introduction
IMPORTANT PLANT FAMILIES IN CALIFORNIA
HOW PLANT FAMILIES, GENERA, AND SPECIES ARE NAMED
HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
Key to California Plant Families
California Plant Family Accounts
ACERACEAE (MAPLE FAMILY)
AGAVACEAE (AGAVE FAMILY)
AIZOACEAE (ICEPLANT FAMILY)
ALLIACEAE (ONION FAMILY)
ANACARDIACEAE (SUMAC FAMILY)
APIACEAE (PARSLEY OR CARROT FAMILY)
APOCYNACEAE (DOGBANE FAMILY)
ARECACEAE (PALM FAMILY)
ASTERACEAE (DAISY, COMPOSITE, OR SUNFLOWER FAMILY)
BERBERIDACEAE (BARBERRY FAMILY)
BETULACEAE (BIRCH FAMILY)
BORAGINACEAE (BORAGE OR FORGET-ME-NOT FAMILY)
BRASSICACEAE (MUSTARD FAMILY)
CACTACEAE (CACTUS FAMILY)
CAMPANULACEAE (BELLFLOWER FAMILY)
CAPPARACEAE (CAPER FAMILY)
CAPRIFOLIACEAE (HONEYSUCKLE FAMILY)
CARYOPHYLLACEAE (PINK FAMILY)
CHENOPODIACEAE (GOOSEFOOT FAMILY)
CONVOLVULACEAE (MORNING GLORY FAMILY)
CORNACEAE (DOGWOOD FAMILY)
CRASSULACEAE (STONECROP OR LIVE-FOREVER FAMILY)
CUCURBITACEAE (GOURD OR CUCUMBER FAMILY)
CUPRESSACEAE (CYPRESS FAMILY)
CYPERACEAE (SEDGE FAMILY)
EPHEDRACEAE (JOINT-FIR FAMILY)
ERICACEAE (HEATHER FAMILY)
EUPHORBIACEAE (SPURGE FAMILY)
FABACEAE (LEGUMINOSAE; PEA OR LEGUME FAMILY)
FAGACEAE (OAK OR BEECH FAMILY)
GENTIANACEAE (GENTIAN FAMILY)
GERANIACEAE (GERANIUM OR CRANESBILL FAMILY)
GROSSULARIACEAE (GOOSEBERRY FAMILY)
HIPPOCASTANACEAE (HORSE-CHESTNUT FAMILY)
HYDROPHYLLACEAE (WATERLEAF FAMILY)
IRIDACEAE (IRIS FAMILY)
JUNCACEAE (RUSH FAMILY)
LAMIACEAE (MINT FAMILY)
LAURACEAE (LAUREL FAMILY)
LILIACEAE (LILY FAMILY)
LOASACEAE (BLAZING STAR FAMILY)
MALVACEAE (MALLOW FAMILY)
MYRTACEAE (MYRTLE FAMILY)
NYCTAGINACEAE (FOUR O’CLOCK FAMILY)
OLEACEAE (OLIVE FAMILY)
ONAGRACEAE (EVENING-PRIMROSE FAMILY)
ORCHIDACEAE (ORCHID FAMILY)
PAPAVERACEAE (POPPY FAMILY)
PINACEAE (PINE FAMILY)
PLATANACEAE (PLANE TREE FAMILY)
POACEAE (GRASS FAMILY)
POLEMONIACEAE (PHLOX FAMILY)
POLYGONACEAE (BUCKWHEAT FAMILY)
PORTULACACEAE (PORTULACA OR PURSLANE FAMILY)
PRIMULACEAE (PRIMROSE FAMILY)
PTERIDACEAE (BRAKE FERN FAMILY)
RANUNCULACEAE (BUTTERCUP OR CROWFOOT FAMILY)
RHAMNACEAE (BUCKTHORN FAMILY)
ROSACEAE (ROSE FAMILY)
RUBIACEAE (MADDER OR COFFEE FAMILY)
RUTACEAE (RUE OR CITRUS FAMILY)
SALICACEAE (WILLOW FAMILY)
SAXIFRAGACEAE (SAXIFRAGE FAMILY)
SCROPHULARIACEAE (FIGWORT OR SNAPDRAGON FAMILY)
SOLANACEAE (POTATO OR NIGHTSHADE FAMILY)
TAXACEAE (YEW FAMILY)
TAXODIACEAE (REDWOOD OR BALD-CYPRESS FAMILY)
THEMIDACEAE (BRODIAEA FAMILY)
VERBENACEAE (VERBENA FAMILY)
VIOLACEAE (VIOLET FAMILY)
Glossary
Common Plant-Names Index
Scientific Plant-Names Index
About the Author and Illustrator