 | A Flora of Southern California by Philip A. Munz
Buy used from: $34.00 Without doubt, the best reference for this area. Find a used one if it's out of print. Key plants here, then verify if needed with illustrations in other books.
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 | The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California
Buy new: $83.05 / Used from: $45.89 A good reference, but suffers from a few serious flaws. Got a little space, so 'll say here that I have little use for wildflower guides. You need a comprehensive flora to ID plants.
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 | A Flora of San Diego County California by R. Mitchel Beauchamp
Buy used from: $40.00 Handy field size. More widely useful than you might expect, especially in Riverside, Orange, and Imperial Cos. (not comprehensive there, but good for quick ref.). Keys but no illustrations.
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| Flora of Santa Cruz Island by Steve Junak
Buy used from: $97.00 A beautiful book with keys and tons of great illustrations. Useful on the adjacent mainland too (see caveat above).
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 | Intermountain Flora Vol. 6: The Monocotyledons by Arthur Cronquist
Buy used from: $183.44 All vols. are excellent. I list V. 6 because grasses & sedges are so hard. Fully illustrated. Esp. good for N & E Mojave & adj. mts. I want something like it for Calif! Awaiting publ of last volume.
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| Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States (4 Vol. Set) by Leroy Abrams
Buy used from: $100.18 A huge effort done very well. Exhaustive, with an illustration for every plant. Illustrations often too small, but there's just nothing else like it anywhere. You'll need it eventually.
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| Vegetation and Flora of the Sonoran Desert by Forrest Shreve
Buy new: $185.00 / Used from: $52.88 Exhaustive and essential for the low desert. Sorry, no illustrations.
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| A Flora of the Marshes of California by Herbert L. Mason
Buy used from: $115.00 Fantistic, wonderfully illustrated book. Essential for wetlands identifications. Far better and more complete than the photocopied wetland guidebooks.
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