California Serpentines: Flora, Vegetation, Geology, Soils, and Management Problems Volume 78

by Arthur R. Kruckeberg

This is the first comprehensive treatment of an important segment of the flora of California: native plants that have varying degrees of fidelity to serpentine rock and soil that make up over 1100 square miles in the Coast Ranges and the Sierra Nevada. Many of California's unique endemic plants are found nowhere else but on serpentine; over 200 species, subspecies, and varieties of native plants are restricted to some degree to serpentine. The author...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520097017
• ISBN13: 9780520097018
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 10.0"