Regional Floras Added to Science Library

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Regional Floras Added to Science Library

March 18, 2010 by Tania Marien

The following guides have been added to Herbarium > Science Library > Plant Guides:

Chickering, Carol Rogers. 1973. Flowers of Guatamala. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN: 080610813.
This book contains 50 color illustrations of Guatamalan plants from different regions. The climate belts of Guatamala and the readily visible plants of each belt are described. Chickering traveled throughout Guatamala and painted each plant on-site. The plants featured in this book are: Achimenes longiflora, Amoreuxia palmatifida, Aphelandra schiediana, Bixa orellana, Caesalpinia pulcherrima, Calliandra houstoniana, Canna edulis, Cassia indecora, Castilleja tenuifolia, Cattleya aurantiaca, Cestrum aurantiaca, Chiranthodendron pentadactylon, Cobaea villosa, Cochlospermum vitifolium, Cordia alba, Dahlia maxoni, Dahlia popenovii, Fuchsia splendens, Gliricidia sepium, Guiacum sanctum, Heliconia bibai, Ipomoea carnea, Jacobinia umbrosa, Kohleria elegans, Lobelia laxiflora, Lycaste virginalis alba, Malvaviscus arboreus, Odontoglossum grande, Oncidium splendidum, Petrea volubilis, Plumeria rubra, Portlandia platantha, Psittacanthus calyculatus, Quercus skinneri, Robinsonella cordata, Rondeletia cordata, Salvia wagneriana, Sprekelia formosissima, Tabebuia donnel-smithii, Tagetes spp., Tecoma stans, Tillandsia rodigueziana, Tithonia longiradiata, Triplaris melaenodendron, Weldenia candida, Wigandia kunthii, Yucca elephantipes, Zephyranthes brevipes, Zinnia elegans, Fuego bouquet.

Chickering’s work is included in the collection at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. She painted a collection of mariposa lilies for Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden and has exhibited her work at the California Academy of Sciences and Descanso Gardens. Chickering received a medal from the Garden Club of America for her work combining botany and art.

Schroter, Ludwig and Carl Schroter. (19??) Flore des Alpes
This field guide for tourists contains 207 flowering plants depicted in color and ten plants in black-and-white. Text is written in French, English, and German. This book is the 20th and 21st edition. The year of publication is unknown. Comparisons to other editions of this book place the publication date around 1910.

Yocom, Charles F. 1964. Shrubs of Crater Lake. Crater Lake Natural History Association.
While a ranger-naturalist at Crater Lake National Park during the summers of 1951 and 1952, Dr. Charles F. Yocom drew the shrubs growing in the park. This small and informative field guide contains descriptions of 81 of the park’s 103 shrubs. Fifty-four of the shrubs were illustrated by Yocom. Two herbs are also included in this book. This handy guide ends with a six-page glossary of botanical terms.

Gilmour, John. 1947. Wild Flowers of the Chalk. The King Penguin Books.
A small guide to the English Chalk and its common wildflowers. The author makes reference to the fact that this book is part of a series of small guides about plants growing on the lime soil of the Chalk Outcrop. Sixteen color plates are included in this book. They were created by Irene Hawkins and represent the following plants: Gentiana amarella and G. germanica, Polygala calcarea, Thymus serpyllum, Thymus serpyllum, Hippocrepis comosa, Asperula cynanchica, Filipendula hexapetala, Phyteuma tenerum, Scabiosa columbaria, Helianthemum nummularium, Anemone pulsatilla, Onobrychis viciifolia, Blackstonia perfoliata, Anacamptis pyramidalis, Ophrys apifera, Cephalanthera grandiflora, and Astragalus danicus.