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Flora of the Santa Ana River and environs : with references to world botany
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Flora of the Santa Ana River and environs : with references to world botany

Author: Oscar F Clarke; et al
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume is a guide to the flora of California's Santa Ana River, describing 900 plant species, accompanied by 3,200 images and illustrations, and serves as an introduction to basic botanical concepts.
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Genre/Form: Identification
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Oscar F Clarke; et al
ISBN: 9781597140508 1597140503
OCLC Number: 71632318
Description: ix, 495 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 23 cm.
Contents: 1. Spore plants (orders psilotales, lycopodiales, equisitales, filicopsida) --
2. Gymnosperms (order coniferales) --
3. Aquatic monocots (orders alismatales, arales) --
4. Palms (order arecales) --
5. Sedges, rushes, grasses, and cattails (orders juncales, cyperales, typhales) --
6. Showy-flowered monocots (orders haemodorales, liliales, orchidales) --
7. Primitive angiosperms (orders magnoliales, piperales) --
8. Buttercups, barberry, and poppies (order ranunculales) --
9. Centrospermae (orders caryophyllales, polygonales, plumbaginales) --
10. Catkins (orders hamamelidales, fagales, juglandales, casuarinales) --
11. Willow, melons, mallows, and geraniums (orders dilleniales, violales, malvales) --
12. Figs, mulberries, marijuana, and elms (order urticales) --
13. Euphorbia (order euphorbiales) --
14. Tea and primrose (order theales, guttiferales, primulales) --
15. Manzanita (order ericales) --
16. Mustard and its relatives (order capparidales) --
17. Roses and peas (orders rosales, fabales) --
18. Crepe myrtle, eucalyptus, and evening primrose (order myrtales) --
19. Silk tassel and dogwood (order cornales) --
20. Mistletoe (order santalales) --
21. Buckthorn and grape (order rhamnales, vitales) --
22. Maple, cashew, and poison oak (order sapindales) --
23. Carrots (order apiales) --
24. Milkweeds and gentians (order gentianales) --
25. Nightshades and mints (order solanales, lamiales, callitrichales) --
26. Scrophs and relatives (orders plantaginales, scrophulariales) --
27. Coffee, bedstraw, and elderberry (orders rubiales, dipsacales, asterales) --
28. Sunflowers (order asterales).
Responsibility: Oscar F. Clarke ... [et al. ; foreword by Peter H. Raven].
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This volume is a guide to the flora of California's Santa Ana River, describing 900 plant species, accompanied by 3,200 images and illustrations, and serves as an introduction to basic botanical concepts.

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