Entries offer non-technical plant descriptions and facing color photos.
There is also general information on the region, an illustrated glossary, and a section on identifying Sierra Nevada conifers. First published in 1976, this edition contains information on 25 additional species. Inc. When author Elizabeth Horn traveled throughout the Sierra Nevada researching wildflowers and their haunts for this field guide, what impressed her most was the mountain range's immense diversity of habitats. She found flowers blooming from the grassy western foothills through mixed conifer forests and into the windy high country, in alpine meadows, dry rocky expanses, and moist crevices. Let Sierra Nevada Wildflowers be your guide to the mountains in bloom as you explore the Sierra's vast and varied landscape.