Introduction to California Soils and Plants headwear and dynamics of life in

and dynamics of life in Native California—which are often very different from elsewhere in the United States—the book collects essays from writers across the state

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Ecologist Brian Buma helps us envision—both literally and figuratively—the history

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California Native Plant Society

Introduction to California Soils and Plants headwear and dynamics of life inCarnivorous pitcher plants, pygmy conifers, and the Tiburon jewel flower, restricted to a small patch of serpentine soil on Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, are just a few of California's many amazing endemic plantsspecies that are unique to particular locales. California boasts an abundance of endemic plants precisely because it also boasts the richest geologic diversity of any place in North America, perhaps in the world. In lively prose, Arthur