California's Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological Invasions

by Richard A. Minnich and Jay R. Benford

Early Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San Francisco to San Diego. Yet today, invading plant species have devastated this nearly forgotten botanical heritage. In this lively, vividly detailed work, Richard A. Minnich synthesizes a unique and wide-ranging array of sources--from the historic accounts of those early explorers to the writings of early American...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520253531
• ISBN13: 9780520253537
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"