Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region - 3rd Edition by Linda H Beidleman & Eugene N Kozloff (Paperback)

About the Book

""Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region" is a user-friendly guide with excellent photographs that fills an important need in the botanical community locally. A good guide for students and beginning nature lovers, though even sophisticated plant enthusiasts will consult it for its easy style and useful photos."--Frank Almeda, California Academy of Sciences

Book Synopsis

This is the definitive botanic guide to the wetlands, woodlands, coastlines, hills, and valleys of the beautiful and diverse San Francisco Bay Region. For this extensively revised and redesigned third edition of Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region, the identification keys have been thoroughly updated to include 21 new families, 155 new species, and approximately 330 changes in the scientific names, ensuring that this popular book will continue to be the most comprehensive and authoritative identification guide to the region's native and introduced plants.

- Easy-to-use keys describe more than 2,000 species of wild flowers, trees, shrubs, ferns, and weeds.
- Hundreds of line drawings and color photographs support accurate identification.
- Plants are identified by both common and scientific names, making this guide an essential resource for amateur naturalists, students, and professionals.

From the Back Cover

""Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region is a user-friendly guide with excellent photographs that fills an important need in the botanical community locally. A good guide for students and beginning nature lovers, though even sophisticated plant enthusiasts will consult it for its easy style and useful photos."--Frank Almeda, California Academy of Sciences

Review Quotes

"The book is most practical from a user's point of view, is taxonomically current and accurate, and is highly recommended for anyone interested in a field guide to the plants of this area."--"Choice

About the Author

Linda H. Beidleman has been an instructor at the Jepson Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley; the Aspen Center for Environmental Studies; and the Rocky Mountain Nature Association, among other institutions. She has coauthored several books. Eugene N. Kozloff is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington and has written several books, as well as numerous research articles about marine invertebrates.