Sierra Wildflowers: A Hiker's Guide
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John Muir Laws
John (Jack) Muir Laws is a scientist, educator, and author, who helps people forge a deeper and more personal connection with nature through keeping illustrated nature journals and understanding science. His work combines science, art, and mindfulness. He observes the world with rigorous attention, looks for mysteries, plays with ideas, and seeks connections in all he sees. Jack teaches techniques that make, observation, curiosity, and creative thinking a part of everyday life. Visit his website at johnmuirlaws.com.
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Sierra Wildflowers - John Muir Laws
Copyright © 2019 by John Muir Laws
All rights reserved. No portion of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recordings, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from Heyday.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018957710
On the cover: Subalpine Shooting Star
Cover Design: Ashley Ingram
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Foreword
California’s signature mountain range displays an annual riot of color. From showy fields of poppies, lupines, and paintbrushes in the foothills to half-hidden orchids, lilies, and primroses in the higher meadows of our national parks, the Sierra Nevada is one of the state’s premier wildflower destinations.
Most people associate wildflowers with spring, but in the Sierra they can be found from late winter through late fall. One of the benefits of a mountainous landscape is if you miss a wildflower display at lower elevation, all you have to do is travel uphill to catch the next act. In spring, the foothills are rich with palette-like displays of wildflowers in grasslands and open, sunny spaces between woodland oaks. Later in the spring and into early summer, drive up into the mountains for fewer but equally showy splashes of color in our conifer-dominated forests. By late summer and early fall, when we seek even higher ground and cooler temperatures, we’ll find more flowers not only at sub-alpine elevations but also in Lilliputian gardens at the highest alpine elevations.
Sierra Wildflowers: A Hiker’s Guide, which includes illustrations lovingly painted from life, is conveniently arranged by flower color and shape and includes most of the common species that you will encounter. Adapted from naturalist John Muir Laws’s bestselling The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada (Heyday, 2007), this book features fully updated plant names as of the time of printing. (My thanks to my colleague Shawna Martinez for her assistance