CALIFORNIA STATE L IBRARY
MAY-JUNE 2017
WILDFLOWERS IN CALIFORNIA
CALIFORNIA HISTORY SECTION DISPLAY
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INTRODUCTION
Do you love taking wildflower walks during this time of the year? Do you make an annual trip to Daffodil Hill? Admire images and art of California poppies, lu-
pines and other floral gems, via our carefully curated selection of images, ephemera and books. If you want more information about how to re-search the history of California wildflowers using our collection, consider viewing our research guide to Wildflowers in California or contacting us via the following methods.
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V ISUALS
California Bookplate Society. (c1910). [Bookplate]. N.S.: California ookplate Society. Bookplate.
Balto Badge Co. (N.D.). Tournament of Roses New Year’s Day. Baltimore: Balto Badge Co. Button.
California Roses: Reve D'Or. (c1912). N.S.: California Roses Series. Graphic.
V ISUALS
California Wild Flowers: Sticky Monkey-Flowers. (c1912). N.S.: California Roses Series. Graphic.
deLongpre, Paul. (c1900). California Poppy. Cup de Ora (Cup of Gold). N.S.: Grizzly Bear. Graphic.
California Wild Flowers: Indian Warrior. (c1912). N.S.: California Roses Series. Graphic.
V ISUALS
Gray, Percy. (1914). Carmel Valley, California from the water color painting by Percy Gray. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson. Graphic.
Gray, Percy. (1914). Mt. Tamalpais, California from the water color painting by Percy Gray. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson. Graphic.
Ferry Bros. (c1915). [Button]. San Francisco: Ferry Bros. Button.
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Sherwood Hall Nursey Company. (c1892). Compliments Sherwood Hall Nursery Company. San Francisco: Sherwood Hall Nursery Company. Pamphlet.
A.H. Rogers. (1898). Queen and Case-Knife Cactus. Santa Barbara: A.H. Rogers. Graphic.
Sanborn Vail and Co. (1898). Golden poppies: a Californian calendar for 1898. Calendar.
V ISUALS
Standard Oil Company of California. (1920, May 18-19). La Fiesta de Las Rosas (San Jose, Calif.). Sticker.
Theatrical Mechanical Association & Tivoli Opera House. (1913, October 21). 19th Annual Benefit: In Aid of the Sick and Charity Fund. San Francisco: Brunt Press. Program.
Stern & Rose. (N.D.). Sunny Slope Vineyards. San Gabriel: Stern & Rose. Trade Card.
BOOKS
Bash, B. (1989). Desert giant : The world of the saguaro cactus (1st ed., Bash, Barbara. Tree tales). San Francisco : Boston: Sierra Club Books ; Little, Brown.
Blackwell, L. (1999). Wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada and the Central Valley. Edmonton, AB: Lone Pine.
Hall, H., & Hall, Carlotta Case. (1912). A Yosemite flora; a descriptive account of the ferns and flowering plants, including the trees, of the Yosemite national park; with simple keys for their identification; designed to be useful throughout the Sierra Nevada Mountains. San Francisco: P. Elder and company.
BOOKS
Keator, G., Yamane, L., & Lewis, A. (1995). In full view : Three ways of seeing California plants. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books
Lepp, G. (2004). Golden poppies of California : In celebration of our state flower. Los Osos, Calif.: Lepp and Associates.
Minnich, R. (2008). California's fading wildflowers : Lost legacy and biological invasions. Berkeley: University of California Press.
BOOKS
Munz, P. (1961). California spring wildflowers : From the base of the Sierra Nevada and Southern Mountains to the sea. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Munz, P. (1962). California desert wildflowers. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Munz, P. (1963). California mountain wildflowers. Berkeley: University of California Press.
BOOKS
Nakamura, G., & Nelson, J. (2001). Illustrated field guide to selected rare plants of Northern California. Oakland, Calif.: Cooperative Extension, University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Ross, M., & Caple, L. (1997). Flower watching with Alice Eastwood (Ross, Michael Elsohn, 1952- Naturalist's apprentice). Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books.
Rowntree, L. (2006). Hardy Californians : A woman's life with native plants (New, expanded ed.). Berkeley: University of California.
BOOKS
Wiese, K. (2000). Sierra Nevada wildflowers : A field guide to common wildflowers and shrubs of the Sierra Nevada, including Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks (Falcon guide). Helena, Mont.: Falcon.
Wiltens, J. (1999). Edible and poisonous plants of northern California. Berkeley, Calif.: Wilderness Press.
OTHER V ISUALS B IBLIOGRAPHY
Briggs, E. K.. (N.D.). Lloyd Stuart Ackerman and Louise Sloss Ackerman. Bookplate.
[Brooch]. (c1999).N.S.: Franklin Mint. Brooch. California Native Plant Society. (c1995). California Native Plant
Society. Sacramento: California Native Plant Society. Pam-phlet.
From the books of Grace Murray. (N.D.).N.S.: Grace Murray. Bookplate.
Gathering Poppies. (N.D.). Los Angeles: Newman Post Card Co. Postcard.
John W. Roberts & Co. (N.D.). John W. Roberts & Co. Trade Card.
Kern County Chamber of Commerce. .. (c1937). Kern county pictorial ... Through the lens of the camera ... we present: a Kern county pictorial of an industrial cavalcade with opportunities diversified, in an empire on a great frontier. Bakersfield: Kern county chamber of commerce. Pamphlet.
Larsen, C.G. (N.D.). Tivoli Café. Trade Card. Mockel, Henry R.. (c1962). Indian Head Cactus. Twentynine
Palms: Henry R. Mockel. Greeting Card. —. (c1962). Lobivia Paucartembensis. Twentynine Palms: Hen-
ry R. Mockel. Greeting Card. —. (c1963). Hole-in-the-Sand. Twentynine Palms: Henry R.
Mockel. Greeting Card. —. (c1963). Thistle Sage. Twentynine Palms: Henry R. Mock-
el. Greeting Card. —. (c1968). Desert Horned Toad and Two-colored Phacelia.
Twentynine Palms: Henry R. Mockel. Greeting Card. Paterson. (N.D.). Del Norte Azalea. Graphic. Redlands Mutual Orange Company. (N.D.). Camellia Brand.
Redlands: Redlands Mutual Orange Co. Trade Card.
Spratt, Alberti. (N.D.). [Painting]. N.S.: Federal Art Project. Graphic.
—. (N.D.). [Painting]. N.S.: Federal Art Project. Graphic. Under a California Rose Bush, the largest in the world. (N.D.).Los
Angeles: M. Rieder. Postcard. Whitehead & Hoag Co. (N.D.). Los Angeles / County of fruit and
flowers. Los Angeles: Whitehead & Hoag Co. Pamphlet. Willard, Stephen. (N.D.). Varieties of Desert Vegetation, seen near
Palm Springs, California. Palm Springs: Willard-Photograph. Graphic.
Yarwood, Margaret. (N.D.). Squirrel -- California Poppy. Graphic.
OTHER V ISUALS B IBLIOGRAPHY
OTHER BOOKS B IBLIOGRAPHY
Belzer, T. (1984). Roadside plants of Southern California. Missou-la, [Mont.]: Mountain Press.
Coleman, R. (1995). The wild orchids of California. Ithaca: Comstock Pub. Associates.
Fiedler, P., Watters, C., & California Native Plant Society. (1996). Rare lilies of California. Sacramento, CA: California Native Plant Society.
Fuller, T., & McClintock, E. (1986). Poisonous plants of Califor-nia (California natural history guides 53). Berkeley: Uni-versity of California Press.
Leigh, C. (1998). 88 California wildflower locations. Nevada City, Calif.: Picture This.
Lightner, J. (2014). San Diego County native plants in the 1830s : The collections of Thomas Coulter, Thomas Nuttall, and H.M.S. Sulphur with George Barclay and Richard Hinds.
Michael, E., & Peñalosa, F. (2004). The joy of Yosemite : Selected writings of Enid Michael, pioneer ranger naturalist. Rancho Pa-los Verdes, Calif.: Quaking Aspen Books.
Mockel, H., & Mockel, Beverly. (1971). Mockel's Desert flower notebook (1st ed.]. ed.). Twentynine Palms, Calif.: Mockel.
Munz, P. (1964). Shore wildflowers of California, Oregon and Washington. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Niehaus, T., & Ripper, C. (1976). A field guide to Pacific States wildflowers : Field marks of species found in Washington, Oregon, California, and adjacent areas : A visual approach arranged by color, form, and detail (The Peterson field guide series ; 22). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Parsons, M. (1902). The wild flowers of California; their names, haunts, and habits (4th ed.). San Francisco: Payot, Upham & company.
OTHER BOOKS B IBLIOGRAPHY
Pusateri, S. (1963). Flora of our Sierran national parks, Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, including many valleys and foothill plants. Tulare, Calif.: Carl and Irving Printers.
San Bernardino Mountains Land Trust. (1999). Wildflowers of the San Bernardino Mountains. Lake Arrowhead, CA: The Trust.
Saunders, C. (1917). Western flower guide, wild flowers of the Rockies and west to the Pacific. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & company.
Stuhl, E., & Ford, M. (1981). Wildflowers of Mount Shasta, "Lone Giant of the Cascades". Klamath Falls, Or.: Clemen-tine Pub.
Ulrich, L., & Lamb, S. (1994). Wildflowers of California. Santa Barbara, CA: Companion Press.
Valentien, A., Dykens, M., & San Diego Natural History Mu-seum. (2003). Plant portraits : The California legacy of A.R. Valentien. Irvine, Calif. : San Diego, Calif.: Irvine Muse-um ; San Diego Natural History Museum.
Ward, G., & Ward, Onas M. (n.d.). 190 wild flowers of the Southwest deserts in natural color. Palm Desert, Calif.: Best-West.
Wilson, C. (1955). Alice Eastwood's wonderland; the adventures of a botanist. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences.
Young, D. (1964). Redwood empire wildflower jewels. Healds-burg, Calif.: Naturegraph.
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