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Sierra Wildflowers

A Hiker's Guide

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Buch | Softcover
120 Seiten
2019
Heyday Books (Verlag)
978-1-59714-467-4 (ISBN)
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Naturalist John Muir Laws has adapted his painted-from-life flower illustrations from The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada into a lightweight yet durable guidebook to the area's florae.

From sprawling fields of showy hillside poppies, lupines, and paintbrushes in the foothills to orchids, lilies, and primroses in the higher meadows of our national parks, the Sierra Nevada is one of the premier wildflower destinations in California. Sierra Wildflowers includes the most common species that you will encounter, with fully updated common and scientific names. Flowers are organized by color and shape, making identification easy for flower enthusiasts of all experience levels.

John (Jack) Muir Laws is a principal leader and innovator of the worldwide nature journaling movement. Jack is a scientist, educator, and author, who helps people forge a deeper and more personal connection with nature through keeping illustrated nature journals and understanding science. His work intersects science, art, and mindfulness. Trained as a wildlife biologist and an associate of the California Academy of Sciences, he observes the world with rigorous attention. He looks for mysteries, plays with ideas, and seeks connections in all he sees. Attention, observation, curiosity, and creative thinking are not gifts, but skills that grow with training and deliberate practice. As an educator and author, Jack teaches techniques and supports routines that develop these skills to make them a part of everyday life. Laws has written and illustrated several books including How to Teach Nature Drawing and Journaling (2020), The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling (2016), The Laws Guide to Drawing Birds (2012), Sierra Birds: a Hiker’s Guide (2004), The Laws Guide to the Sierra Nevada (2007), and The Laws Pocket Guide Set to the San Francisco Bay Area (2009), all published by Heyday. He is a regular contributor to Bay Nature magazine with his “Naturalists Notebook” column.

Foreword


Acknowledgments 


Key to Wildflowers


White-Cream Flowers




White Flower Key
Orchids and Fungi
Doctrine of Signatures
Square Stems and Opposite Leaves: Mint Family
Poison Petals
Irregular Flowers: Pea Family
Small White Flowers in Clumps
Small White Flowers Forming an Umbrella (Umbel)
Ancient Greek Medicine
Biological Warfare
Beautiful Grass
Flowers Under a Magnifying Glass
Lethal Genes
Hawkmoth Pollination
Tube- or Cone-Shaped Flowers
Nectar Guides
Opposite Leaves
Flower Perfume
Sticky Traps
Flower Ovaries
Turn Over a New Leaf
A Wildflower Loved by John Muir
Plant and Fungus Parasites
Compound Leaves (Composed of Multiple Leaflets)
Glandular Hairs
A Sweet Reward
Bulbs in a Short Growing Season
Monocots vs. Dicots
Lewis and Clark Species Names


Red-Pink Flowers




Red-Pink Flower Key
Monkeyflower Pollination Strategies
Hummingbird Flowers
Paintbrush and Owl's Clover
Red Flowers with Dense Heads
Cushion Plants
After the Burn
Picking Flowers
Shooting Star Pollination
Nectar Thieves
Color Change and Pollination
Plants Without Chlorophyll
Orchid Seeds
Edible and Useful
Milkweed Poison and Insect Relationships
Seed Pods
Plants with Variable Numbers of Petals


Orange Flowers




Orange Flower Key
Golden Poppies?
Unrolling Flowers
Hover Pollination


Yellow Flowers




Yellow Flower Key
Flower Puzzles
Pollen Traps
Violets' Back-Up Plan
Peas
Yellow Tufted Flowers
Butterfly Food
Late Summer Color
A Threat to California's Grasslands
Pollen Strings
Change with Elevation
Unlikely Insect Trap
Cinquefoil (pronounced sink-foil)
Little Frogs
Water Storage
Ground Nuts
Lily Pad Homes
Big Yellow Sunflowers
Difficulty Identifying Arnica? Relax, It's Not You ...
Plenty of Pollen
Goldenrod vs. Groundsel
Summer Drought
Dandelion-Like Flowers
Growing Together


Green Flowers




Growing Together


Blue-Purple Flowers




Blue-Purple Flower Key
Alternate Leaves, Deadly Beauty
Alternate Leaves, Larkspur Grazing Defenses
Alternate Leaves, Indian Paintbrush
Narrow Palmately Compound Leaves: Lupine
Broad Palmately Compound Leaves: Lupine
Small Palmately Compound Leaves: Lupine
Pinnately Compound Leaves
Opposite Leaves, Tubular Flowers
Opposite Leaves, Flowers Spreading
Opposite Leaves, Flowers Spreading with Minty Smell
Dense Heads of Small Flowers
Fooling with Fungus Flies
Insect-Eating Plants
Ultraviolet Patterns
Corkscrew Seeds
An Identification Challenge
Flower Clusters


Index


 


 

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Illustrations
Verlagsort Berkeley
Sprache englisch
Maße 114 x 222 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
ISBN-10 1-59714-467-3 / 1597144673
ISBN-13 978-1-59714-467-4 / 9781597144674
Zustand Neuware
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