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Title The Jepson manual : vascular plants of California / Bruce G. Baldwin (convening editor) ; editors, Douglas H. Goldman [and others] ; principal illustrator, Linda Ann Vorobik
Edition 2nd ed
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 1568 pages) : illustrations, maps, portrait
Series JSTOR EBA
Contents Introduction -- Philosophy -- Conventions used in The Jepson Manual, Second edition -- Abbreviations and symbols -- Glossary -- Geographic subdivisions of California -- Hierarchical outline of geographic subdivisions -- Geographic subdivisions of California (map) -- Geologic, climatic, and vegetation history of California -- Key to California vascular plant families -- Lycophytes -- Ferns -- Gymnosperms -- Nymphaeales -- Magnoliids -- Ceratophyllales -- Eudicots -- Monocots -- Appendix. Numerical summary of taxa treated in The Jepson Manual, Second edition -- Index
Summary The second edition of The Jepson Manual thoroughly updates this acclaimed work, the single most comprehensive resource on California's amazingly diverse flora. The Jepson Manual, second edition, integrates the latest science with the results of intensive fieldwork, institutional collaboration, and efforts of hundreds of contributing authors into an essential reference on California's native and naturalized vascular plants. The second edition includes treatments of many newly described or discovered taxa and recently introduced plants, and reflects major improvements to plant taxonomy from phylogenetic studies. Nearly two-thirds of the 7,600 species, subspecies, and varieties the volume describes are now illustrated with diagnostic drawings. Geographic distributions, elevation ranges, flowering times, nomenclature, and the status of non-natives and native taxa of special concern have all been updated throughout. This edition also allows for identification of 240 alien taxa that are not fully naturalized but sometimes encountered. A new chapter on geologic, climatic, and vegetation history of California is also featured
Notes Includes index
First ed. published as: The Jepson manual: higher plants of California, ©1993
Subject Botany -- California
Plants -- California -- Identification
Plants -- California -- Pictorial works
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Botany.
Botany
Plants
California
Genre/Form Field guides
Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
Author Baldwin, Bruce G., 1957- editor.
Goldman, Douglas H., 1969- editor.
LC no. 2011027207
ISBN 9780520951372
0520951379