William A. Weber - Rocky Mountain Flora: A Field Guide for the Identification of the Ferns, Conifers, and Flowering Plants of the Southern Rocky Mountains Botany
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The Front Range of Colorado is one of Americas most famous and spectacular summer playgrounds. Not among the least of the scenic attractions to be found here are the lavish displays of wild flowers in the mountain meadows and alpine heights, the vast expanses of cool, green forested lands, the brilliant splashes of autumn colour of our aspens and sumacs, and the endless rolling grasslands of the eastern plains. There are very few places in the United States where so many types of vegetation are crowded into such a relatively small area, and where in the space of a few minutes time one may alternately bake in the climate of the desert, and shiver in the climate of the far north. Learning to recognise the plants is a first step toward understanding a flora. The species descriptions, delicate line drawings, colour photographs, plant keys, reference materials, and glossary in Rocky Mountain Flora offer an outstanding starting point for the pursuit of botany in the Rockies.
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Rocky Mountain Flora : A Field Guide for the Identification of the Ferns, Conifers, and Flowering Plants of the Southern Rocky Mountains From Pikes Peak to Rocky Mountain National Park and From the Plains to the Continental Divide
author
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Weber, William A.
publisher
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University Press of Colorado
isbn10 | asin
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0870810685
print isbn13
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9780870810688
ebook isbn13
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9780585036816
language
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English
subject
Botany--Colorado, Botany--Front Range (Colo. and Wyo.)
publication date
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1976
lcc
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QK150.W4 1976eb
ddc
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582/.09788/6
subject
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Botany--Colorado, Botany--Front Range (Colo. and Wyo.)
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Rocky Mountain Flora
A Field Guide for the Identification of the Ferns, Conifers, and the Flowering Plants of the Southern Rocky Mountains from Pikes Peak to Rocky Mountain National Park and from The Plains to the Continental Divide
William A. Weber
Professor Emeritus and Former Creator of the University of Colorado Museum Herbarium
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
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1976 by the University Press of Colorado P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544 (303) 530-5337 Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved Designed by Dave Comstock
Library of Congress card Number 67-15956 ISBN 0-87081-068-5
Rocky Mountain Flora is the fifth edition, revised, of the book originally published by the Colorado Associated University Press in August 1953, under the title, Handbook of Plants of the Colorado Front Range.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
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CONTENTS
Preface to the Fifth Edition
vii
Introduction
xi
Rocky Mountain Flora
1
The Front Range
2
Plant Zones in the Front Range
2
Plant Geography
5
Threatened and Endangered Species
6
How to Use the Keys
8
How to Make a Plant Collection
15
How Plants Are Named
18
Scientific Names
18
Origins of Specific Names
19
Common Names
19
Arrangement of the Families and Treatment of Subspecific Categories
20
Key to the Families
23
Keys to the Genera and Species
47
Pteridophytes
49
Gymnosperms
64
Flowering Plants
70
Dicots
70
Monocots
360
Illustrated Glossary
449
Useful References
466
Index
469
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THE ILLUSTRATIONS
The principal illustrator is Dr. Charles F. Yocom, Professor of Wildlife Management at Humboldt State College, Arcata, California and a colleague of the author for many years. Dr. Yocom has illustrated numerous books dealing with the western biota, including his Shrubs of Crater Lake National Park (Crater Lake Nat. Hist. Assn.); Baker, Larrison, Yocom and Baxter, Wildlife of the Northern Rocky Mountains; and Yocom, Beidleman, Weber and Malick, Wildlife and Plants of the Southern Rocky Mountains (Naturegraph, Inc.). Additional illustrations for the present edition have been prepared by Ann Pappageorge of Loveland, Colorado. Mrs. Pappageorge's drawings are identifiable by her signature. Color plates are reproduced from the Kodachrome collection of the University of Colorado Museum. Photographers were the late Harold W. Roberts, Denver attorney, and the author.
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PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION
Over the thirty years since this book was first conceived, the Colorado Front Range has changed a great deal. Mountain homes, ski resorts, reclamation and flood-control dams, jeeping and snowmobiling have utterly transformed what once was relative wilderness. The idyllic rural piedmont valleys now constitute an "urban corridor", officially designated and irreversibly changed, stretching from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs. Much of the natural landscape has disappeared and along with it the native vegetation, particularly the natural wetlands and meadows. Highway construction, stripping of topsoil, gravel mining, excavation of mountain peat bogs for garden supplies, the exploitation of native ornamentals such as
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