Introduction to Trees of the San Francisco Bay Region / Glenn Keator; ed. by Glenn Keator.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keator, Glenn, Author.

Contributor:

Keator, Glenn, Editor.

Series:

California Natural History Guides

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.) : 250 color photographs, 5 line illustrations, 1 map

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2005]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The mild Mediterranean climate of the San Francisco Bay Region nurtures an enormous variety of trees: majestic oaks and coast redwoods, lovely flowering dogwood and western redbud, graceful bigleaf maple, and many others. This guidebook, with its easy-to-use keys, informative species accounts, and copious illustrations, is the perfect guide to California's native and naturalized trees for those who want a handy, authoritative manual to carry into the field. o Species descriptions give fascinating and little-known facts about each tree and suggest locales to visit for viewing them o 250 color photographs illustrate traits essential for identification and show surrounding habitats for many specieso Provides detailed tips on learning to use keys and other identification aidso Covers all nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Region and includes trees found in adjacent Monterey and Mendocino counties

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-93595-0