Robin Barber's Recommended Books
Below is a list of recommended books concerning the plants in our canyons, painters of San Diego, and closely related subjects. If you know of any additional books, please let me know and I'll add them to the list. Just e-mail me.
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California Plants
Key to Coastal and Chaparral Flowering Plants of Southern California by Barbara Collins (September 2000).
Flowering Plants: The Santa Monica Mountains, Coastal and Chaparral Regions of Southern California by Nancy Dale, California Native Plant Society (Photographer).
Growing
California Native Plants by Marjorie D. Schmidt, Marjorie G. Schmidt
(January 1981).
The Jepson Manual:
Higher Plants of California
by James C. Hickman (Editor), Willis Linn Jepson (April 1993). (This is very
technical, but one of the most useful and complete books to key California
plants.)
Introduction
to California Plant Life by Robert Ornduff (June 1974).
Trees
and Shrubs of California (California Natural History Guides) by
John O. Sawyer (Illustrator), John D. Stuart (Illustrator).
An Island Called
California: An Ecological Introduction to Its Natural Communities
by Elna S. Bakker (December 1984).
A Natural History
of California
by Allan A. Schoenherr (February 1995).
California Herbal Remedies: The History and Uses of Native Medicinal Plants by Lolo Westrich, Jim Westrich (Photographer).
California Painters
Second
Nature: Four Early San Diego Landscape Painters by Martin E. Petersen.
(This is a truly wonderful book focusing on San Diego, though I think it is
out of print. I got one at the San Diego Historical Society Museum a few years
ago.)
Plein
Air Painters of California, the Southland by Ruth Lilly Westphal
(October 1982).
The Society of
Six: California Colorists
by Nancy Boas, Charles Eldredge (April 1997).
California
Impressionists by Susan Landauer (Editor), et al (July 1996).
All Things Bright & Beautiful: California Impressionist Paintings from
the Irvine Museum by William H. Gerdts, et al (January 1994).
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