by Stephen J. Botti; illustrated by Walter Sydoriak.

The book includes detailed description, plant habitats and locations, a dichotomous key, an illustrated glossary, and place name and general indices.

This landmark volume, nearly twenty years in the making, offers comprehensive treatment of every vascular plant species known to occur in Yosemite. It is beautifully illustrated with over 1,100 watercolor paintings of flowering species, and pen-and-ink drawings for nearly 300 grass, rush, and sedge species.

This is an important new resource for scientists, botanists, ecologists, and others studying the health and diversity of Sierra Nevada ecosystems. It provides a complete record of species abundance and distribution, and establishes a baseline against which future changes can be measured.

The first new Yosemite flora in 90 years, it becomes the new ?Bible? of Yosemite plant identification for lay people, park visitors, amateur botanists, and other interested persons with uses throughout the Sierra Nevada.

The book's foreword is by Peter H. Raven, its line drawings are by Lesley Randall (grasses, sedges, and rushes) and Katherine Hocker (illustrated glossary), and the technical editing was handled by Linda Ann Vorobik. The first edition is limited to 3,000 copies, is finely printed on archival, art-quality paper, and is case bound with a dust jacket.

516 pages; 13 inches x 12 inches; 8.5 pounds; illustrated in color and black and white; case bound with dust jacket; copyright 2001, Yosemite Association.

ISBN: 0-939666-98-7. #YOSA9013 cloth$125.00

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