Author: Warren, Piers Publisher: Wildeye Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Stinging nettles are, for many of us, nothing more than persistent weeds with a painful sting. But apart from having an important role in the web of life, nettles are an incredibly useful plant to man...
Author: Nadkarni, Nalini Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering di...
Author: Jackson, John E. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Biology of Apples and Pears is a comprehensive reference book on all aspects of pomology at the organ, tree and orchard level. It provides detailed information on propagation, root and shoot growth, r...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bryophytes, especially mosses, represent a largely untapped resource for monitoring and indicating effects of climate change on the living environment. They are tied very closely to the external envir...
Author: Popper, Helen Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first month-by-month guide to gardening with native plants in a state that follows a unique, nontraditional seasonal rhythm. Beginning in October, when much of California leaves the dry se...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Fire is both an integral natural process in the California landscape and growing threat to its urban and suburban developments as they encroach on wildlands. Written by many of the foremost authoritie...
Author: Lowry, Judith Larner Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Judith Lowry's voice and experiences make a rich matrix for essays that include discussions of wildflower gardening, the ecology of native grasses, wildland seed-collecting, principles of natural desi...
Author: Rowntree, Lester Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lester G. E. Rowntree (1879-1979), free-spirited adventurer and pioneering botanist, was fifty-two when she traded a comfortable home for the life of a peripatetic traveler in the California mountains...
Author: Quinn, Ronald D. / Keeley, Dr. Sterling C. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The characteristic look of California Chaparral-a soft bluish-green blanket of vegetation gently covering the hills-is known to millions who have seen it as the backdrop in movies and television produ...
Author: Harrap, Anne / Harrap, Simon Publisher: A&C Black Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Orchids have long held a fascination, both for keen botanists andthe general public. From the mania of Victorian collectors to theenthusiasm of modern photographers, this family of flowering plants ha...
Author: Henderson, Andrew Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Southern Asia is a vast and ecologically diverse region that extends from the deserts of Afghanistan to the rainforests of Thailand, and is home to a marvelously rich palm flora. Palms of Southern Asi...
Author: Henderson, Andrew Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Southern Asia is a vast and ecologically diverse region that extends from the deserts of Afghanistan to the rainforests of Thailand, and is home to a marvelously rich palm flora. Palms of Southern Asi...
Author: Jones, Ronald L. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Plant Life of Kentucky is the first comprehensive account of the native and naturalized ferns, flowering herbs, and woody plants of Kentucky. Ronald L. Jones has compiled detailed identification keys ...
Author: Bernath, Jeno Publisher: CRC Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A comprehensive treatment of Poppy emphasising its importance in medical and industrial usage , this volume should be of interest to everyone involved in medicinal plant research.
Author: Shufer, Vickie Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: From the field to your table-how to find and prepare wild foods. If you're searching for the freshest fruits and vegetables to add to your diet, you don't have to look any further than your own backya...
Author: Stuart, John D. / Sawyer, John O. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: California's varied landscape is characterized by a spectacular abundance of plant life, including a magnificent variety of trees and shrubs. This is the first book to combine the trees and shrubs of ...
Description: A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants, Stewart takes on ...
Author: Blackwell, Laird R. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this photograph-driven field guide to California's spectacular wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell expertly provides several ways to find them in bloom: by month, by place, and by flower. The month-by-...
Author: Schummer, Michael L. / Hagy, Heath M. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Moist-soil wetlands are seasonally flooded areas that produce early-succession plant communities of grasses, sedges, and other herbaceous plants. Moist-soil wetland plants provide food and cover for a...
Author: unknown, Publisher: Barker Deane Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Wouldn't it be nice to escape the rat race of life, even if only for a few minutes? Close your eyes, imagine, and escape to another place or time. Use the power of your creative imagination to de-stre...
Author: Jones, Ronald Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Plant Life of Kentucky is the first comprehensive account of the native and naturalized ferns, flowering herbs, and woody plants of Kentucky. Ronald L. Jones has compiled detailed identification keys ...
