Introduction to California Soils and Plants Insects Intricate and strangely beautiful etchings

Intricate and strangely beautiful etchings and drawings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs capture diabolical bugs of all shapes and sizes in this mixture of history

in public parks

Plant Characteristics Family Name Alliaceae Species Name Allium dichlamydeum Common Name Coast Onion Plant Type Bulb Sun Exposure Coast-Sun

This beautiful and uncommon shrub has fragrant white flowers that hang down

Plant Characteristics Family Name Saxifragaceae Species Name Heuchera 'Ruffles' Common Name Ruffles Alumroot Plant Type Perennial Sun Exposure Coast-Part Sun

Introduction to California Soils and Plants Insects Intricate and strangely beautiful etchingsCarnivorous 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