Botanical Mother Lode

摘要

This splendid book might be mistaken for a "coffee-table book": oversized, copiously illustrated, but with minimal text of little substance. Look again! This is the Mother Lode of California plant books, with many precious nuggets inside its covers. More than 100 amateur and professional botanists, ecologists, entomologists, and other interested citizens were asked to write short pieces about their favorite botanizing sites in California. The preface refers to these places as "hot spots," localities that support unusual assemblages of rare or endemic plants.