100 Desert Wildflowers

When the desert blooms, it is a sight never to be forgotten. Wildflowers to your shins, even to your knees, carpet the desert in a riot of magenta, blue, orange, white, and yellow. You can lie back in a field of perfumed vegetation and disappear from view as bees buzz over your nose on their untiring search for nectar and pollen. 100 Desert Wildflowers is an indispensable guide to the names, characteristics, ranges, and other important identifying features of the flowering plants you're most likely to encounter -- in both wet and dry years. The book is your essential guide to the blossoming deserts of the Southwest!

• More than 100 close-up photographs
• All the species you are most likely to encounter in the deserts of the Southwest!
• Handy information on how to identify each species
• Approximate bloom times

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