This is the first comprehensive treatment of an important segment of the flora of California: native plants that have varying degrees of fidelity to serpentine rock and soil that make up over 1100 square miles in the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada. Many of California's unique endemic plants are found nowhere else but on serpentine; over 200 species, subspecies, and varieties of native plants are restricted to some degree to serpentine. The author describes the geology, soils, and mineral nutrition of serpentines (low in normal essential nutrients, high in magnesium, iron, and toxic heavy metals, nickel, and chromium), the vegetation and flora that tolerate this inhospitable habitat, the fauna on serpentines, and management/conservation problems associated with serpentines. This is an essential guide to an important aspect of the flora of California.
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Arthur R. Krukeberg is Professor of Botany at the University of Washington.
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In a fruitless search through journals of early explorers, I encountered no mention of a plant restricted to serpentine soil until the published records of William H. Brewer's botanical explorations of California (1861). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
serpentine woodland, serpentine chaparral, ultramafic outcrops, serpentine habitats, nonserpentine substrates, serpentine localities, serpentine occurrences, serpentine syndrome, serpentine tolerance, nonserpentine soils, serpentine endemism, geothermal power development, serpentine vegetation, serpentine species, serpentine endemics, serpentine areas, serpentine plants, saltational speciation, serpentine outcrops, serpentine flora, serpentine sites, catastrophic selection, taxa endemic, serpentine grassland, ecotypic differentiation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco, New Idria, San Benito County, Jasper Ridge, Napa County, Bay Region, Marin County, Santa Barbara County, Sonoma County, Austin Creek, Geologic Map of California, Mayacamas Mountains, Trinity County, Contra Costa, North America, San Luis Obispo County, San Mateo County, California Div, Del Norte County, New Zealand, Port Orford, Siskiyou County, Floyd Bardsley New!
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In a fruitless search through journals of early explorers, I encountered no mention of a plant restricted to serpentine soil until the published records of William H. Brewer's botanical explorations of California (1861). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
serpentine woodland, serpentine chaparral, ultramafic outcrops, serpentine habitats, nonserpentine substrates, serpentine localities, serpentine occurrences, serpentine syndrome, serpentine tolerance, nonserpentine soils, serpentine endemism, geothermal power development, serpentine vegetation, serpentine species, serpentine endemics, serpentine areas, serpentine plants, saltational speciation, serpentine outcrops, serpentine flora, serpentine sites, catastrophic selection, taxa endemic, serpentine grassland, ecotypic differentiation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Coast Ranges, Sierra Nevada, San Francisco, New Idria, San Benito County, Jasper Ridge, Napa County, Bay Region, Marin County, Santa Barbara County, Sonoma County, Austin Creek, Geologic Map of California, Mayacamas Mountains, Trinity County, Contra Costa, North America, San Luis Obispo County, San Mateo County, California Div, Del Norte County, New Zealand, Port Orford, Siskiyou County, Floyd Bardsley New!
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- San Luis Obispo County by Automobile Club of Southern California on 7 pages
- Santa Barbara County by Automobile Club of Southern California on 4 pages
- Terrestrial Vegetation of California by Michael G. Barbour in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Chinese Camp and Other California Poems by John C. Pine in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Kern County by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 14, and page 62
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- Restoring Diversity: Strategies For Reintroduction Of Endangered Plants by Donald A. Falk on page 21, and page 46
- Measurement Techniques in Plant Science by Yasushi Hashimoto on page 316
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