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Dewey Decimal Number: 582.13097944 EAN: 9780899970738 Edition: 3rd ISBN: 0899970737 Label: Wilderness Press Manufacturer: Wilderness Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 406 Publication Date: 1986-06 Publisher: Wilderness Press Studio: Wilderness Press Editorial Review: Product Description: From Toxicodendron diversilobum (poison oak) to Zannichellia palustris (horned pondweed), this book will help every outdoor enthusiast identify, and possibly avoid certain plants in the Sierra. Covers wildflowers, ferns, shrubs, and trees. This edition strictly follows the nomenclature presented in The Jepson Manual as the basis for scientific names. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A brief commentLike many major mountain ranges, the Sierra Nevada has a unique flora, and I've found this to be a useful guide in learning about it. It has good descriptions of the plants, but the photos are often not the best--at least in the volume I have--but they're still good enough to work with. Perhaps the plates were just getting old. It is, however, reasonably complete, and compact enough to be portable. It contains a great deal of useful information, such as species lists, some basic ecology of the sierras, ... Read More Rating:  - Great flora of the SierrasThis is the 1st flora I grab when I'm hiking in the Sierras and I've used them all extensively. I've used it to successfully ID several hundred plants. It requires and average amount of technical skill to use, nothing that a serious amateur could easily master. The flora seems very complete for any plant you find over 4,000 foot elevation--it won't help as much if you're in the foothills. An amateur may want to supplement with a Sierran plant book with photos since the line drawings in this book are ... Read More Rating:  - DisappointingThis book is valuable because it's complete and compact enough to carry in a backpack. Unfortunately, it has enough drawbacks that I wish someone else would write a better book to compete with it. One example of its problems is when I tried to use it to identify a daisy. The index showed no listing for daisy, so I looked through the Aster family section the hard way, and eventually found the genus Erigeron (which turned out to be indexed under "wild daisy"). Unlike most genera, the book only provides ... Read More Rating: - Another Press Run PleaseThis book is great. It is a concise reference on an interesting flora. The botanical keys are easy enough for amateurs to use and for professionals to key plants from memory. The size and weight make it easy to include in a backpack or field press, although I would like a hardback for my reference shelf. This book is valuable to anyone interested in natural history of the region. Rating: - A Sierra Nevada Flora ReviewedI found this book to be a great help identifying plants in the field. Most can be identified without magnification. Plants are identified using dichotomous keys. I also use The Jepson Manual, Higher Plants of California and the old Munz's. But both are heavy and difficult to use in the field for many of the genera though I did use them when I got home to check my identifications. The second great feature of this book is that the plants are specific to the area that I was traveling through. ... Read More |
