The Rare and Endangered Plants of San Mateo and Santa Clara County: With Photographs and Illustrations

Half Moon Bay, CA: Monocot Press, 1995. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Octavo with green and blue glossy pictorial wraps; 139 pages: illustrations (some color); index; bibliography; 22 cm Very good; pages clean and binding tight; wraps are a tad rubbed, mostly at edges; small closed tear at head of spine and price sticker on rear of wraps. Paperback. ISBN: 0964699400

"The purpose for this publication is to acquaint the public with our local rare and endangered flora. This meets a longtime need in providing either color photographs or illustrations of our sensitive plants. Protection and education are long term goals of our local chapter of the California Native Plant Society and this book will help fulfill this goal. By becoming familiar with the sensitive plants in San Mateo and Santa Clara county it will aid in continued protection of these species. Many of these species also occur in the surrounding counties of: Marin, San Francisco, Alameda, Santa Cruz and Monterey." Includes: plants organized within family groups, 172 color photographs and 14 illustrations, details on all 106 sensitive species that occur in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, detailed information of habitat and associated species, species indexed by name (common and scientific) and family, table of species by scientific name and habitat.