Flowering plants: The Santa Monica Mountains, coastal & chaparral regions of Southern California Paperback – January 1, 2000

I love this book. It is super easy to use and find flowers in. I like the multiple indexes. The pictures are lovely and easy to identify. It is fairly light if you want to take it on a hike with you. I use it in the Ojai, CA area and it has most the flowers I am looking for. The only thing I wish is for an updated version! The names are fairly out of date, but if you look online it is easy to find the current name. Thanks for the lovely guide!

Excellent description accompanied with very clear photos.

Thank you!

I have found this to be the most useful wildflower book for coastal southern California. It serves me well from Ensenada, in Baja California to Nojoqui Falls, in Santa Barbara county.This book has been my field guide, and notebook/palimpsest since 1995.Other books I have, but don't rate 5 stars: Peterson's Pacific States Wildflowers; Coffeen's Central Coast Wildflowers; Audubon's Field Guide to North American Wildflowers -- Western Region.

This book was a pleasant surprise--very tastefully done and appealing. The photos are helpful. I can't help wondering, though, why she didn't include my favorite wildfower, Whiteplume Wirelettuce, which you'll occasionally find near a pond or in evergreens in the Santa Monicas, almost always alone.