Flowering Plants of the Sierra Nevada - A Photographic Guide to Over 1000 Wildflowers

"A photographic guide to approximately 950 taxa of flowering plants found in the Sierra Nevada, with concise identification information and details intended to be understood by a non-botanist"-- Provided by publisher.

Info autore

Joanna Clines has been the forest botanist for the Sierra National Forest since 1990. Clines served on the boards of the California Native Plant Society and the California Invasive Plant Council, and she is past president of the Sequoia chapter of CNPS. She lives in the Sierra Nevada and can be found botanizing on or off the job, often at dusk.
Stephen Sharnoff wrote and illustrated A Field Guide to California Lichens, and he and his late wife, Sylvia Sharnoff, did the photographic fieldwork for Lichens of North America. A Guggenheim fellow, his photographs have appeared in numerous books, exhibitions, and magazines, including National Geographic, Smithsonian, and Science News. He lives in Santa Fe.
Peter H. Raven, PhD, is president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden and Engelmann professor of botany at Washington University at St. Louis. Raven's botanical research and work in the area of tropical conservation have earned him numerous honors and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship. He has written 17 textbooks and more than 400 articles, and he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joanna Clines, Stephen Sharnoff
• Con la collaborazione di: Stephen Sharnoff (Fotografie), Raven Peter H. (Prefazione)
• Editore: Ingram Publishers Services
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 09.12.2025
• EAN: 9781597146876
• ISBN: 978-1-59714-687-6
• Pagine: 608
• Illustrazioni: full-color photographs
• Categorie: Saggistica > Natura, tecnica > Natura: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Photography & photographs, Nature / Plants / Flowers, Mountains, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Photography and photographs, Mountains and uplands