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| The Vascular Plants of Western Riverside County, California: An Annotated Checklist | 
 enlarge | Authors: Fred M. Roberts, Jr. Scott D. White, Andrew C. Sanders, David E. Bramlet, Steve Boyd
Publisher: F. M. Roberts Publishing
Category: Book
Buy New: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1659743
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.7
ISBN: 0964384728
EAN: 9780964384729
ASIN: 0964384728
Publication Date: December 15, 2004
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Product Description
Western Riverside County, California, supports a diverse and interesting flower with over 1,300 taxa of vascular plants. For the first time, all native and naturalized plants known to be documented within this region are found in a single reference. Each species include common name, status, abundance, and distribution information. The book is also includes three appendices (excluded taxa, rare plants, and a detailed nomenclatureal cross-reference with author commentary), two reference maps, and line drawing illustrations of 33 species.
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It's a list, but well-researched and pretty complete. March 28, 2008
Depends on what you expect. It's not a flora, or key, or guide. There is no dichotomous key or photos or drawings (well, a few nice ones, but not really) for helping to identify species. It's an annotated checklist of species in this area. In other words, it's just an academically updated list, grouped by relationship. You'd still need to get any number of floras to actually identify the species when you find them in the wild. The Jepson and Munz floras are the big ones, but definitely not field capable. I'd also suggest the Oscar Clark et al guide to the Santa Ana River Watershed and the San Diego County flora. The Santa Ana River guide is limited to just those biozones along the river's course, so is quite limited, but it's beautiful, with color pictures and it's well researched. The San Diego County Flora is a plain-Jane dichotomous key. If you know the morphology, this is the one I'd suggest. It's compact and covers 99% of species you will find in western Riverside County. The Vascular Plants of Riverside County list makes a great companion to the San Diego flora, in that it lists all present species, so when you encounter one not in the San Diego flora, you can cross reference in the western Riverside list. Usually this can narrow it down to a single possibility. Then you can always double check when you visit the Munz or Jepson at the library.
One note: there is an annotation to the annotated list online. It has some updates on local populations, some possible disappearances and a couple plants that were left out. It is a relatively short list of annotations, but if you are geeky enough to buy this thing, you may just be geeky enough to want this information.
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