Califlora: A Literary Field Guide
, by Beers, Terry
- ISBN: 9781597141611 | 1597141615
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/2012
Literary field trip through an astonishing variety of things that grow in California. It adds the sensibilities of the writers who will surprise us with fact, fiction and just wonderment at growing things .
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| Desertland | |
| Barrel Cactus | |
| Miguel del Barco, from The Natural History of Baja California | p. 3 |
| Common Sagebrush | |
| Mary Austin. "Sagebrush Country" | p. 6 |
| Fan Palm | |
| George Wharton James, from The Wonders of the Colorado Desert | p. 18 |
| Greasewood | |
| Dorothy Ramon and Eric Elliott, "Smelling Greasewood after Rain" | p. 23 |
| Jojoba | |
| Miguel del Barco, from The Natural History of Baja California | p. 26 |
| Joshua Tree | |
| Horace Bell, from On the Old West Coast | p. 31 |
| Jumping Cholla | |
| E. Yale Dawson, from The Cacti of California | p. 33 |
| Mojave Yucca | |
| Dorothy Ramon and Eric Elliott, "Picking Yucca Flowers" | p. 37 |
| Singleleaf Pinyon | |
| Lester Rowntree, from Flowering Shrubs of California | p. 40 |
| Grassland and Chaparral | |
| Amole | |
| Charles Francis Saunders, from With the Flower/ and Tree/ in California | p. 45 |
| Baby Blue Eyes | |
| Bertha M. Rice, from Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers | p. 49 |
| Black Mustard | |
| Helen Hunt Jackson, from Ramona | p. 55 |
| California Goldfields | |
| Mary Elizabeth Parsons, from The Wild Flowers of California | p. 59 |
| California Poppy | |
| Ina Coolbrith, "Copa de Oro (California Poppy)" | p. 61 |
| Wilma Elisabeth McDaniel" First Spring in California, 1936" | p. 61 |
| Alma Luz Villanueva, from Luna's California Poppies | p. 63 |
| Common Manzanita | |
| Gary Snyder, "Control Burn" | p. 75 |
| Common Sunflower | |
| Yvor Winters," Wild Sunflower" | p. 78 |
| Lupine | |
| Lester Rowntree, "Lupins" | p. 81 |
| Oxalis | |
| Kevin Hearle, "Sour Grass" | p. 94 |
| Purple Needlegrass | |
| David Amme, "Grassland Heritage: Stewardship of a Changed Landscape" | p. 97 |
| Toyon | |
| Luther Burbank, "Santa Rosa, Dec. 16, 1919" | p. 106 |
| Kenneth Rexroth, "Human, Avian, Vegetable, Blood" | p. 107 |
| Tule | |
| Mary Cone, from Two Yean in California | p. 109 |
| Wild Oat | |
| Helen Pinkerton, "Coast Hillside" | p. 113 |
| Coastal Forest and Woodland | |
| Broad-Leaved Cattail | |
| Linda Yamane, from In Full View | p. 117 |
| Butterfly Mariposa | |
| Ina Coolbrith, "The Mariposa Lily" | p. 120 |
| California Flannelbush | |
| Charles Francis Saunders, from With the Flowers and Trees in California | p. 122 |
| California Laurel | |
| Janet Lewis, from "Picnic, 1943 | p. 126 |
| California Pitcher Plant | |
| Mary Elizabeth Parsons, from The Wild Flowers of California | p. 129 |
| Coast Redwood | |
| Miguel Costansó,"Sunday. 15 October [1769]" | p. 132 |
| Richard Preston, from The Wild Trees | p. 133 |
| Marin Checker Lily | |
| James Roof, from "The Somber Monks of Point Reyes" | p. 138 |
| Monterey Cypress | |
| Robinson Jeffers, "Granite and Cypress | p. 141 |
| Monterey Pine | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson, from Old and New Pacific Capitals | p. 143 |
| Pacific Poison Oak | |
| Helen Pinkerton, "Nature Note: The California Poison Oak" | p. 147 |
| White Poplar | |
| Louise Wagenknecht, from White Poplar, Black Locust | p. 149 |
| Montane Forest and Woodland | |
| California Milkweed | |
| William Shipley, from The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hanc'ibyjim | p. 155 |
| California Oak | |
| Clarence King, from Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada | p. 157 |
| Yvor Winters, "The California Oaks" | p. 160 |
| Giant Sequoia | |
| James M. Hatchings, from Scenes oj Wonder and Curiosity in California | p. 163 |
| Donald Culross Pearrie, from A Natural History of Western Trees | p. 169 |
| Incense Cedar | |
| Gary Snyder, "Burned Out" | p. 182 |
| Mountain Hemlock | |
| Harriet Monroe, ôThe mountain hemlock droops…" | p. 185 |
| Pacific Madrone | |
| Brer Harre, "Madrono" | p. 187 |
| Yvor Winters, "The Mansanka" | p. 188 |
| Penstemon | |
| Lester Rowntree, from "On a Trail of Beauty" | p. 190 |
| Ponderosa Pine | |
| Donald Culross Peattie, from A Natural History of Western Trees | p. 193 |
| Quaking Aspen | |
| Claudia MonPere, "Carving" and ôAspen, 1898" | p. 204 |
| Shorthorn Steer's-Head | |
| Lester Rowntree, from "On a Trail of Beauty" | p. 208 |
| Snow Plant | |
| Sarah J, Pettinos, "The Snow Plant of the Sierras" | p. 211 |
| Charles Warren Stoddard, "'The Snow-Plant" | p. 212 |
| Sugar Pine | |
| William Shipley, from The Maidu Indian Myths and Stories of Hánc'ibyjim | p. 215 |
| Lucy Thompson, from To the American Indian | p. 216 |
| Western Juniper | |
| John Muir, from My First Summer in the Sierra | p. 218 |
| Range-Cropland | |
| Avocado | |
| Gary Snyder, "Avocado" | p. 221 |
| Cannabis | |
| T. Coraghessan Boyle, from Budding Prospects | p. 223 |
| Common Wheat | |
| Frank Norris, from The Octopus | p. 229 |
| Grape | |
| David Mas Masumoto, from Epitaph for a Peach | p. 237 |
| Joy Sterling, from A Cultivated Life | p. 240 |
| Orange | |
| Sidney Herbert Burchell, from Jacob Peek: Orange Grower | p. 248 |
| M. F. K. Fisher, from Among Friends | p. 251 |
| Pear | |
| Richard Stewart, "Pear Orchard" | p. 255 |
| Persimmon | |
| Kevin Hearle/Harvest" | p. 257 |
| Author Sketches | p. 259 |
| Selected References | p. 269 |
| Sources and Permissions | p. 270 |
| Author Index | p. 275 |
| About the Editor | p. 277 |
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