California's fading wildflowers [electronic resource] : lost legacy and biological invasions / Richard A. Minnich.
Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.Description: xiv, 344 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780520253537 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0520253531 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780520934337 (e-book)
- 582.1309794 22
- QH353 .M56 2008eb

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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