Minnich, Richard A.

California's fading wildflowers lost legacy and biological invasions / [electronic resource] : Richard A. Minnich. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008. - xiv, 344 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-336) and index.

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.


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Biological invasions--California.
Plant invasions--California.
Wild flowers--California.


Electronic books.

QH353 / .M56 2008eb

582.1309794