California's fading wildflowers : lost legacy and biological invasions / / Richard A. Minnich.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Minnich, Richard A.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiv, 344 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

• 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.