Metcalf, Woodbridge. 1959. Native trees of the San Francisco 

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 and relation to man of all native trees of the bay region. 



Muller, Katherine K. 1958. Wildflowers of the Santa Barbara 

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 beautiful little booklet describing and picturing 58 wildflowers 

 of the Santa Barbara area. 



Munz, Philip A. 1961. California spring wildflowers. Univ. Calif. 

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 wildflowers, arranged by flower color. Every species is illus- 

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. 1963. California mountain wildflowers. Univ. 



Calif. Press, Berkeley. Mostly summer wildflowers of the 

 mountainous areas, with a few spring and autumn species. 



. 1964. Shore wildflowers of CaUfornia, Oregon, and Wash- 

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 popular series, this contains plants of the Pacific shoreHne, 

 "that portion of the coast which is influenced by salt spray". 



. 1973. A California flora and supplement. (In collaboration 



with David D. Keck). Univ. Calif. Press, Berkeley and Los 

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 cies of ferns and seed plants of CaHfomia. Introduction con- 

 tains a section on geological history by D. Axelrod, and a dis- 

 cussion by Munz and Keck of the 29 plant communities they 

 recognize for the state. 



. 1974. A flora of Southern California. Univ. Calif. Press, 



Berkeley and Los Angeles. The standard text and reference 

 book on the flowering plants of southern California. 



Niehaus, Theodore. 1974. Sierra wildflowers: Mount Lassen to 

 Kern County. Univ. Calif. Press, Berkeley. Natural History 

 Guide Series. The nearly 550 wildflowers described in this 

 guide represent mostly the common ones found in the several 

 plant communities of the Sierra Nevada. 



Parsons, Mary E. 1966. The wildflowers of California. Dover 

 Publications Inc., New York. Short popular descriptions of 

 the common or conspicuous California flowering plants, group- 

 ed according to flower color, with key to genera. This book, 



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