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Naturalist John Muir Laws has adapted his painted-from-life flower illustrations from The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada into a lightweight yet durable guidebook to the area's florae.
From sprawling fields of showy hillside poppies, lupines, and paintbrushes in the foothills to orchids, lilies, and primroses in the higher meadows of our national parks, the Sierra Nevada is one of the premier wildflower destinations in California. Sierra Wildflowers includes the most common species that you will encounter, with fully updated common and scientific names. Flowers are organized by color and shape, making identification easy for flower enthusiasts of all experience levels.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Key to Wildflowers
White-Cream Flowers
White Flower Key
Orchids and Fungi
Doctrine of Signatures
Square Stems and Opposite Leaves: Mint Family
Poison Petals
Irregular Flowers: Pea Family
Small White Flowers in Clumps
Small White Flowers Forming an Umbrella (Umbel)
Ancient Greek Medicine
Biological Warfare
Beautiful Grass
Flowers Under a Magnifying Glass
Lethal Genes
Hawkmoth Pollination
Tube- or Cone-Shaped Flowers
Nectar Guides
Opposite Leaves
Flower Perfume
Sticky Traps
Flower Ovaries
Turn Over a New Leaf
A Wildflower Loved by John Muir
Plant and Fungus Parasites
Compound Leaves (Composed of Multiple Leaflets)
Glandular Hairs
A Sweet Reward
Bulbs in a Short Growing Season
Monocots vs. Dicots
Lewis and Clark Species Names
Red-Pink Flowers
Red-Pink Flower Key
Monkeyflower Pollination Strategies
Hummingbird Flowers
Paintbrush and Owl's Clover
Red Flowers with Dense Heads
Cushion Plants
After the Burn
Picking Flowers
Shooting Star Pollination
Nectar Thieves
Color Change and Pollination
Plants Without Chlorophyll
Orchid Seeds
Edible and Useful
Milkweed Poison and Insect Relationships
Seed Pods
Plants with Variable Numbers of Petals
Orange Flowers
Orange Flower Key
Golden Poppies?
Unrolling Flowers
Hover Pollination
Yellow Flowers
Yellow Flower Key
Flower Puzzles
Pollen Traps
Violets' Back-Up Plan
Peas
Yellow Tufted Flowers
Butterfly Food
Late Summer Color
A Threat to California's Grasslands
Pollen Strings
Change with Elevation
Unlikely Insect Trap
Cinquefoil (pronounced sink-foil)
Little Frogs
Water Storage
Ground Nuts
Lily Pad Homes
Big Yellow Sunflowers
Difficulty Identifying Arnica? Relax, It's Not You ...
Plenty of Pollen
Goldenrod vs. Groundsel
Summer Drought
Dandelion-Like Flowers
Growing Together
Green Flowers
Growing Together
Blue-Purple Flowers
Blue-Purple Flower Key
Alternate Leaves, Deadly Beauty
Alternate Leaves, Larkspur Grazing Defenses
Alternate Leaves, Indian Paintbrush
Narrow Palmately Compound Leaves: Lupine
Broad Palmately Compound Leaves: Lupine
Small Palmately Compound Leaves: Lupine
Pinnately Compound Leaves
Opposite Leaves, Tubular Flowers
Opposite Leaves, Flowers Spreading
Opposite Leaves, Flowers Spreading with Minty Smell
Dense Heads of Small Flowers
Fooling with Fungus Flies
Insect-Eating Plants
Ultraviolet Patterns
Corkscrew Seeds
An Identification Challenge
Flower Clusters
Index
