Pickleweed Press Books

Pickleweed Press, founded in 1980 by Phyllis M. Faber, offers easy-to-use wetland field guides for amateurs and professional naturalists alike to identify the common wetland plants that grow in coastal areas of California or in riparian (river or stream) areas throughout the state.

Common Wetland Plants of Coastal California A Field Guide for the Layman This field guide provides laymen with an easy method for identifying common plants found in various wetland habitats in the coastal areas of California. The presence of these hydrophytic plants that tolerate wet, or wet and saline conditions, is used as a part of regulatory wetland delineations. Because of the harsh conditions of salt and brackish marshes, there are few weeds, but several of these are included. (Sample Interior Pages)		Common Riparian Plants of California A Field Guide for the Layman This field guide provides laymen with an easy method for identifying common riparian (streamside) plants in California. Plants are included that are found in montane regions of the Sierra Nevada, the Coast Ranges and their foothills, the Great Valley, the desert, and coastal California. Descriptions include information about a plant’s habitat and the range in which it is found. {Sample Interior Pages)
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Why it is easy to use these field guides: • The Plants shown are photocopies of actual plants. • You can put the plant you find in the field right on the page and compare what you see • Descriptions give ranges and conditions where the plants grow, their size, life form (a shrub, a tree, or herb), leaf and flower features including the flowering time. • Plant sketches give the size of each plant relative to a person six feet tall• Common names, as well as the scientific genus, species, and family names are provided as well as an easy-to-use glossary and an index.


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