This guide features 300 of the common plants of the Sonoran Desert. Detailed descriptions, information about bloom season and range, and interesting facts about each plant accompany the full-color photographs. 300 color photos
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Sonoran Wildflowers is the ultimate field guide to wildflowers of North America's most biologically diverse desert, which straddles the Gulf of California between the Baja Peninsula and northwestern Sonora and stretches north into California and Arizona. Packed with vivid color photos and informative text, this valuable reference will help you identify and appreciate the varied flora of this vast region's six different climates.
This easy-to-use guide features: a tough, water-resistant cover and extra-durable binding, made to withstand vigorous field use; detailed descriptions and color photos of more than 300 plants; an introduction to the habitats and ecology of the Sonoran Desert; a primer on plant characteristics; a glossary of botanical terms.
Sonoran Desert Wildflowers is perfect for the novice and expert wildflower enthusiast alike. Whether you are lucky enough to spot the inconspicuous blooms of Devil's Spineflower or the spectacular Desert Mariposa, this guide will enhance your next journey into the remarkable Sonoran Desert.
This easy-to-use guide features: a tough, water-resistant cover and extra-durable binding, made to withstand vigorous field use; detailed descriptions and color photos of more than 300 plants; an introduction to the habitats and ecology of the Sonoran Desert; a primer on plant characteristics; a glossary of botanical terms.
Sonoran Desert Wildflowers is perfect for the novice and expert wildflower enthusiast alike. Whether you are lucky enough to spot the inconspicuous blooms of Devil's Spineflower or the spectacular Desert Mariposa, this guide will enhance your next journey into the remarkable Sonoran Desert.
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Las Cruces, New Mexico resident Richard Spellenberg has a doctoral degree in botany and is Professor Emeritus of Biology at New Mexico State University. He has studied plants in western North America, particularly those of the desert Southwest, contributing to technical classification works and several books on wildflowers and general ecology.
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This review is from: Sonoran Desert Wildflowers: A Field Guide to the Common Wildflowers of the Sonoran Desert, Including Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Saguaro National Park, Organ Pipe National Monument, Ironwood Forest National Monument, and the Sonoran Portion of Joshua Tree National Park (Paperback)
A must-have book for your library of Desert Wildflower books. It is arranged by color of bloom, has beautiful photographs, and the text is very informative. Each plant description also has a comment of something unusual or interesting about it, which is a novelty for a flower book.
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This is a professionally prepared field guide to the wildflowers of the sonoran desert. The pictures are superb. The flowers are arranged by color making it easy to use for the casual flower enthusiast and botanist because the families are alphabetical within each color section. The book has a nice binding to withstand field work too. Each species account has common and scientific names of the species and family, defining characters, flowering season, habitat/range (including altitude) and comments. Excellent addition to anyones library that has an interest in sonoran flowers!
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This review is from: Sonoran Desert Wildflowers: A Field Guide to the Common Wildflowers of the Sonoran Desert, Including Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Saguaro National Park, Organ Pipe National Monument, Ironwood Forest National Monument, and the Sonoran Portion of Joshua Tree National Park (Paperback)
How many times have you been out exploring and come across a wildflower, asking yourself, I wonder what this is? Well this will tell you. it helped me identify several flowers/bushes on my treks from the Superstition Mts. to the White Tanks. Well done. Great photos.
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This guide is designed for the identification of wildflowers and shrubs and trees with showy flowers from the Sonoran Desert north of Mexico, an area covering much of southeastern California and southern Arizona. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bracts around head, bilateral flowers, seedlike fruit, grayish green plants, starlike hairs, inversely lanceolate, woolly plants, flowering season, matted plants, linear lobes, disk flowers, gravelly washes, yellow flower heads, fruit divides, round lobes, branched plants, pinnately lobed, hairy plants, pinnately divided, ray flowers, pinnately compound, erect plants, whitish flowers, divided leaves, other petals Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sonoran Desert, Sunflower Family, New Mexico, Bean Family, American Southwest, United States, March June, North America, Figwort Family, Mustard Family, Cactus Family, Mallow Family, Phlox Family, Baja California, Evening Primrose Family, Nightshade Family, Waterleaf Family, Buckwheat Family, February June, Native Americans, Great Plains, South America, Morning Glory Family, Borage Family, Four O'Clock Family New!
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This guide is designed for the identification of wildflowers and shrubs and trees with showy flowers from the Sonoran Desert north of Mexico, an area covering much of southeastern California and southern Arizona. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bracts around head, bilateral flowers, seedlike fruit, grayish green plants, starlike hairs, inversely lanceolate, woolly plants, flowering season, matted plants, linear lobes, disk flowers, gravelly washes, yellow flower heads, fruit divides, round lobes, branched plants, pinnately lobed, hairy plants, pinnately divided, ray flowers, pinnately compound, erect plants, whitish flowers, divided leaves, other petals Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sonoran Desert, Sunflower Family, New Mexico, Bean Family, American Southwest, United States, March June, North America, Figwort Family, Mustard Family, Cactus Family, Mallow Family, Phlox Family, Baja California, Evening Primrose Family, Nightshade Family, Waterleaf Family, Buckwheat Family, February June, Native Americans, Great Plains, South America, Morning Glory Family, Borage Family, Four O'Clock Family New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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