Yosemite Wildflower Guide: Sources and Credits

Hurrah for the books listed below! Without their help, I would have had to just make up names for most of the wildflowers in this guide. Not that I wouldn't have done a better job. Goat's beard? Who came up with that one, and what illicit native plants were they ingesting just beforehand?

But I digress.

A big thanks to Mary Cary, Joanna Clines, Alison Colwell, and Carolyn Croker for diverting a few cycles of their enormous brains to the matter of flower identification. If I managed to get anything right in this guide, it's probably thanks to their help.

• 100 Common Wildflowers of Central California, Susan Lamb
• An Illustrated Flora of Yosemite National Park, Stephen J. Botti, Illustrated by Walter Sydoriak
• Introduction to California Mountain Wildflowers, Philip A. Munz
• Introduction to California Spring Wildflowers of the Foothills, Valleys, and Coast, Philip A. Munz
• The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada, John Muir Laws
• National Audubon Society Field Guide to Wildflowers, Western Region, Richard Spellenberg
• Sierra Nevada Wildflowers, Elizabeth L. Horn
• Sierra Nevada Wildflowers, Karen Wiese
• Wildflowers of California, Larry Ulrich and Susan Lamb
• Wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada and the Central Valley, Laird R. Blackwell
• Wildflowers of Yosemite, Lynn & Jim Wilson and Jeff Nicholas