California's wild gardens : a guide to favorite botanical sites
(Book)

Introduction. Why is California's flora so rich? -- Sidebar : serpentine and its plant life in California -- Sidebar : California's Mediterranean climate -- Sidebar : fire and its role in rejuvenating plant communities -- Plants under siege : habitat loss by man's activities -- California's living landscape : vegetation types and plant communities -- Sidebar : invasive weeds : an insidious threat to California wildlands -- At a crossroads : can California's native plants be conserved? --

North Coast and Klamath Ranges. North fork of the Smith River -- Lanphere-Christensen Dunes -- Sidebar : Western lily -- Humboldt Bay salt marshes -- Sidebar : coast redwood -- The Yolla Bolly Mountains -- Red Mountain -- Pygmy forest of Mendocino -- Bear Valley -- Boggs Lake -- Russian Peak -- Sidebar : Port Orford cedar -- Mount Eddy --

Cascade Range and Modoc Plateau. Mount Shasta -- Sidebar : Shasta snow-wreath -- Lassen Volcanic National Park -- Modoc Plateau --

San Francisco Bay region. San Francisco Presidio -- Sidebar : early botanists aboard Russian explorer ships -- Mount Tamalpais -- Point Reyes Peninsula -- Vine Hill barrens -- Sidebar : the entwined lives of plants and insects -- Santa Rosa Plain -- Mount Diablo -- Sidebar : large-flowered fiddleneck -- Antioch Dunes -- San Bruno Mountain -- Edgewood County Park -- Santa Clara Valley --

Central coast and South coast ranges. Bonny Doon Sandhills -- Fort Ord -- Monterey Bay Dunes -- Monterey pine-cypress forest -- Big Sur coastal bluff scrub -- Santa Lucia Mountains -- San Benito Mountain -- Arroyo de la Cruz -- Sidebar : coast live oak -- Morro Bay -- Cuesta Ridge West -- The Nipomo-Guadalupe Dunes --

Great Valley. North Table Mountain -- Vernal pools of the Great Valley -- Sidebar : vernal pool specialists : bees -- Sutter Buttes -- Sacramento-San Joaquin River delta -- Valley oak forest -- Sidebar : restoring valley oaks -- Grasslands of the San Joaquin Valley -- Carrizo Plain -- Saltbush scrub of the Southern San Joaquin Valley -- Sidebar : Bakersfield cactus --

Sierra Nevada. Ione -- Sidebar : blue oak of the valley foothills -- Pine Hill -- Red Hills of Tuolumne County -- Giant sequoia -- Sidebar : tree-anemone -- Butterfly Valley -- Sierra Valley -- Tahoe Basin -- Lake Winnemuccaa -- Trumbull Peak -- Sidebar : Jeffrey pine -- Along the John Muir Trail -- Piute Range -- Owens Peak and Spanish Needle --

Channel Islands. Northern Channel Islands -- Southern Channel Islands -- Sidebar : Santa Catalina Island mountain-mahogany --

Transverse Ranges. Figueroa Mountain -- Santa Monica Mountains -- Sidebar : Dudleyas in the Santa Monica Mountains -- Palos Verdes Peninsula -- Mount Pinos -- San Gabriel Mountains -- The Pebble Plains in Big Bear Valley -- Carbonate endemics of the San Bernardino Mountains -- Sidebar : carbonate limestone and dolomite soils -- Santa Ana River wash --

South Coast and the Peninsular Ranges. Upper Newport Bay salt marsh -- Torrey Pine forest -- San Diego vernal pools -- Sidebar : San Diego thornmint -- Coastal sage scrub -- Sidebar : Natural Community Conservation Planning -- Western Riverside County -- Sidebar : Vail Lake -- Santa Rosa Plateau -- San Diego County's Peninsular Ranges -- McGinty Mountain -- Cuyamaca Valley -- Otay Mountain and metavolcanic peaks -- Sidebar : Tecate cypress --

Deserts. White Mountains

Sidebar : ancient bristlecone pine

Owens Valley

Fish slough

Eureka Valley

Inyo Mountains

Death Valley

Red Rock Canyon

Eastern Mojave Desert

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Algodones Dunes

Sidebar : the desert fan palm.