Sierra Wildflowers: A Hiker's Guide
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John Muir Laws
John Muir Laws is a naturalist, educator, and artist, with degrees in conservation and resource studies from the University of California, Berkeley; in wildlife biology from the University of Montana, Missoula; and in scientific illustration from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is a 2010 Audubon TogetherGreen Conservation Leadership Fellow and has received the Terwilliger Environmental Award for outstanding service in environmental education. Visit his website at www.johnmuirlaws.com.
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Sierra Wildflowers - John Muir Laws
Copyright © 2019 by John Muir Laws
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2018957710
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Cover Design: Ashley Ingram
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Foreword
California’s signature mountain range displays an annual riot of color. From showy fields of poppies, lupines, and paintbrushes in the foothills to half-hidden orchids, lilies, and primroses in the higher meadows of our national parks, the Sierra Nevada is one of the state’s premier wildflower destinations.
Most people associate wildflowers with spring, but in the Sierra they can be found from late winter through late fall. One of the benefits of a mountainous landscape is if you miss a wildflower display at lower elevation, all you have to do is travel uphill to catch the next act. In spring, the foothills are rich with palette-like displays of wildflowers in grasslands and open, sunny spaces between woodland oaks. Later in the spring and into early summer, drive up into the mountains for fewer but equally showy splashes of color in our conifer-dominated forests. By late summer and early fall, when we seek even higher ground and cooler temperatures, we’ll find more flowers not only at sub-alpine elevations but also in Lilliputian gardens at the highest alpine elevations.
Sierra Wildflowers: A Hiker’s Guide, which includes illustrations lovingly painted from life, is conveniently arranged by flower color and shape and includes most of the common species that you will encounter. Adapted from naturalist John Muir Laws’s bestselling The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada (Heyday, 2007), this book features fully updated plant names as of the time of printing. (My thanks to my colleague Shawna Martinez for her assistance