The mild Mediterranean climate of the San Francisco Bay Region nurtures an enormous variety of trees: majestic oaks and coast redwoods, lovely flowering dogwood and western redbud, graceful bigleaf maple, and many others. This guidebook, with its easy-to-use keys, informative species accounts, and copious illustrations, is the perfect guide to California's native and naturalized trees for those who want a handy, authoritative manual to carry into the field. o Species descriptions give fascinating and little-known facts about each tree and suggest locales to visit for viewing them o 250 color photographs illustrate traits essential for identification and show surrounding habitats for many species o Provides detailed tips on learning to use keys and other identification aids o Covers all nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Region and includes trees found in adjacent Monterey and Mendocino counties

Introduction to the Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region

Science & Math

Keator, Glenn

Biological Sciences

University of California Press

The mild Mediterranean climate of the San Francisco Bay Region nurtures an enormous variety of trees: majestic oaks and coast redwoods, lovely flowering dogwood and western redbud, graceful bigleaf maple, and many others. This guidebook, with its easy-to-use keys, informative species accounts, and copious illustrations, is the perfect guide to California's native and naturalized trees for those who want a handy, authoritative manual to carry into the field. o Species descriptions give fascinating and little-known facts about each tree and suggest locales to visit for viewing them o 250 color photographs illustrate traits essential for identification and show surrounding habitats for many species o Provides detailed tips on learning to use keys and other identification aids o Covers all nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Region and includes trees found in adjacent Monterey and Mendocino counties

Introduction to Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region (California Natural History Guides) (Volume 65)

History

Americas

Interest in California's beautiful native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers is at an all-time high. Yet identification and classification of the state's vast and varied flora can be challenging for both amateurs and professionals. This book provides a superb way for learning to identify California's native and naturalized plants by learning to recognize plant families. The heart of the book contains user-friendly keys and descriptions of seventy major families prominent in wildlands. With this book in hand, anyone will be able to identify common native and naturalized species throughout California's majestic floristic province extending from southwestern Oregon into northern Baja California and to the western side of the major mountain ranges.

California Plant Families: West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts

Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant communities—bluffs, redwoods, the Channel Islands, coastal scrub, grasslands, deserts, oak woodlands, mixed evergreen woodlands, riparian, chaparral, mountain meadows, and wetlands—the book's twelve chapters each include sample plans for a native garden design accompanied by original drawings, color photographs, a plant list, tips on successful gardening with individual species, and more. Both residential and professional gardeners will learn the benefits of going native with gardens that require less water and fewer fertilizers, attract wildlife, engage the senses, create a sense of place, and, at the same time, preserve our rich natural heritage.Designing Native California Gardens includes:* More than 600 selected native species recommended for the garden* More than 300 photographs of native plants, natural plant communities, and residential native gardens* Recommended places to visit for viewing each plant community

Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Middlebrook, Alrie

Faber, Phyllis M.

Gardening & Landscape Design

Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant communities―bluffs, redwoods, the Channel Islands, coastal scrub, grasslands, deserts, oak woodlands, mixed evergreen woodlands, riparian, chaparral, mountain meadows, and wetlands―the book's twelve chapters each include sample plans for a native garden design accompanied by original drawings, color photographs, a plant list, tips on successful gardening with individual species, and more. Both residential and professional gardeners will learn the benefits of going native with gardens that require less water and fewer fertilizers, attract wildlife, engage the senses, create a sense of place, and, at the same time, preserve our rich natural heritage. Designing Native California Gardens includes: * More than 600 selected native species recommended for the garden * More than 300 photographs of native plants, natural plant communities, and residential native gardens * Recommended places to visit for viewing each plant community

Interest in California's beautiful native trees, shrubs, and wildflowers is at an all-time high. Yet identification and classification of the state's vast and varied flora can be challenging for both amateurs and professionals. This book provides a superb way for learning to identify California's native and naturalized plants by learning to recognize plant families. The heart of the book contains user-friendly keys and descriptions of seventy major families prominent in wildlands. With this book in hand, anyone will be able to identify common native and naturalized species throughout California's majestic floristic province extending from southwestern Oregon into northern Baja California and to the western side of the major mountain ranges.

A richly illustrated, informative guide to gardening explains how to create a welcoming habitat for a wide variety of wild creatures through the use of an environmentally friendly collection of native vegetation.

Natural Gardening (Nature Company Guides)

Wasowski, Sally

Glasener, Erica

Knopf, Jim

Scott, Jane

Time-Life Education

Complete Garden Guide to the Native Shrubs of California

Chronicle Books LLC.

Sierra Flower Finder a Guide to Sierra Nevada Wildflowers

Nature Study Guild

PACIFIC COAST FERN FINDER IS A HANDY SIZED BOOKLET FOR CARRYING IN YOUR POCKET WHILE HIKING! EASY TO USE FLOW CHART DECISION TREE FORMAT GUIDES YOU TO YOUR FERN'S IDENTITY STEP BY STEP! 64 PAGES!

Pacific Coast Fern Finder

Nature Study Guild Publishers

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Introduction to the Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region

Introduction to Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region (California Natural History Guides) (Volume 65)

California Plant Families: West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts

Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens

Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens

California Plant Families: West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts

Natural Gardening (Nature Company Guides)

Complete Garden Guide to the Native Shrubs of California

Sierra Flower Finder a Guide to Sierra Nevada Wildflowers

Pacific Coast Fern Finder