Product Description

Grasses have been extremely important in California, with its rolling grass-covered hills and the green-to-gold seasonal cycle of many native grasses. This convenient pocket guide surveys the range and provides identification keys for the common introduced and native grasses.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #270601 in Books
• Published on: 1974-06-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

Customer Reviews

Adequate for grass identification, but a little outdated.
The book serves well for the identification of exotic grasses recently found in Southern California, 1999. However, many of the scientific names of native California bunch grasses have been reclassified in recent years. Unless you know what the new names are, the guide may not serve you well. Additional pictures would have been much more helpful for many species.

Poor Quality Reprint - Marginally Useful
This small book documents many non-native grasses and a few native grasses found in California. However, it's reprint as a field guide is marginally useful. Some of the cross-referenced graphics don't exits. The book is visually uncomfortable to read because of inconsistent text formatting and line crowding. Most illustrations and all of the photographs are reproduced too small.

Grasses in California
Informative. Just what I needed to help me with identification of different grasses in the Sierras where we live and travel