California's fading wildflowers lost legacy and biological invasions /

Main Author: Minnich, Richard A.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10676170
Table of Contents:
  • The golden state
  • Pre-Hispanic herbaceous vegetation
  • Invasion of Franciscan annuals, grazing and California pasture in the nineteenth century
  • A century for bromes and the fading of California wildflowers
  • Lessons from the Rose Parade
  • App.1. Location of Franciscan campsites, Franciscan place names, and modern place names
  • App.2. Spanish plant names for California vegetation
  • App.3. Selected earliest botanical collections of exotic annual species in California
  • App.4. References to wildflowers in the Los Angeles Times, The Desert magazine, and the Riverside Press Enterprise.