DEATH VALLEY WILDFLOWERS
Edited by Steven L. Hartman
Photography by Bill Ratcliffe, Larry Norris, Jim Shevock, Edge of Eden and others.

1999 $14.95 (ISBN 1-890266-07-8). To purchase from Theodore Payne Foundation, click HERE and scroll down. 

This CD for Windows™ (except 64-bit computers) features detailed images of over 200 species of wildflowers and flowering shrubs of Death Valley National Park, an area encompassing the Panamint, Amargosa, Last Chance, Saline and Greenwater Ranges. Flowers can be selected by plant family, by flower color, and by habitat type. Locate particular plants using an index of common and Latin names, hear the pronunciation of every Latin name, and view 4 different flowers on screen at once. A text is provided for each plant describing the growth form, size, habitat, bloom period, elevation range and page references to useful floras. Collections of images and texts can be stored in bookmarks. 

There are nearly 1,000 kinds of plants known to occur in Death Valley National Park. Over 200 of these are included on this CD, most of which have both close-up images of the flower as well as full plant images. Many species have both close-up images of the flower as well as full plant images. An asterisk (*) after a plant species Latin name indicates that the species is not native to California.

If a subspecies or variety is shown, that means that the image shown is of that subspecies or variety. In some cases, no subspecies or variety is shown even though only certain subspecies or varieties are found in Death Valley National Park; this is because the image shown was not keyed out to subspecies or variety. In other words, even though the image shows the correct species, it might not exactly match the subspecies or varieties that may be encountered in the Park. For these, the subspecies or varieties found in the Park will be listed as a NOTE at the bottom of the text description.

The elevation ranges are based on The Jepson Manual, and, in converting to feet, were rounded to the nearest 50'. Keep in mind that the elevation range described in The Jepson Manual is for the full geographic range of the species, not just in Death Valley National Park. The bloom period is based on A Flora of Southern California. The brief plant descriptions and habitat information were compiled and condensed from The Jepson Manual, A Flora of Southern California, and Desert Wild Flowers.

The numbers after the references listed for each species refer to page number for text description (bold), page and key letter for illustration (in italics), and for Desert Wild Flowers, the plant number follows the # sign. When indicating that a species is illustrated, the following "rule" applies: if a taxon is a species (not subspecies), that taxon will be considered illustrated if the species or any subspecies is illustrated; if a taxon is a subspecies, it will be considered illustrated only if that subspecies is illustrated.