Mountain Wildflowers of Southern Arizona: A Field Guide to the Santa Catalina Mountains and Other Nearby Ranges
Splendid! The new standard for clear, helpful guides. Like having a botanist in your pocket-a book as beautiful as the flowers themselves. Entries are easy to find and fun to follow. With these glorious photos anyone can become a flower pro. --Bill Broyles, author of Our Sonoran Desert and other worksMy first reaction on seeing an early copy was, 'Where can I get this book?' At last we have a comprehensive field guide for the flowers of the Santa Catalinas, useful in other Sky Islands as well. The hundreds of crystal-clear photographs offer multiple pathways for identifying flowering plants-by color, by leaf, by fruit, by family, and, perhaps equally important, by the intuitive 'Zen' method of identification. The book even offers help in distinguishing the myriad DYCs (dastardly yellow composites), fleabanes, goldenrods, and wild beans. Nifty! I will never again venture into our southern Arizona Sky Islands without this book in my backpack or glove compartment. --David Yetman, author of the Great Cacti: Ethnobotany and Biogeography and Host of the PBS Series The Desert SpeaksMy first reaction on seeing an early copy was, 'Where can I get this book?' At last we have a comprehensive field guide for the flowers of the Santa Catalinas, useful in other Sky Islands as well. The hundreds of crystal-clear photographs offer multiple pathways for identifying flowering plants-by color, by leaf, by fruit, by family, and, perhaps equally important, by the intuitive 'Zen' method of identification. The book even offers help in distinguishing the myriad DYCs (dastardly yellow composites), fleabanes, goldenrods, and wild beans. Nifty! I will never again venture into our southern Arizona Sky Islands without this book in my backpack or glove compartment. --David Yetman, author of the Great Cacti: Ethnobotany and Biogeography and Host of the PBS Series The Desert Speaks