Bibliography & Further Reading

Books:

• Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (Phillips, Steven J. and Comus, Patricia Wentworth, editors). A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert. Tucson, Arizona: University of California Press, 2000.
• Big Morongo Canyon Preserve. Marsh Trail Guide. Morongo Valley, California: 2013.
• Bowers, Janice Emily. 100 Desert Wildflowers of the Southwest. Tucson, Arizona: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 1989.
• Bowers, Janice Emily. Flowers and Shrubs of the Mojave Desert. Tucson, Arizona: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 1999.
• Cornett, James W. Desert Lizards. Palm Springs, California: Nature Trails Press, 2006.
• Cornett, James W. Indian Uses of Desert Plants. Palm Springs, California: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1995.
• Dawson, E. Yale. Cacti of California. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1966.
• Dodge, Natt N. Flowers of the Southwest Deserts. Tucson, Arizona: Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, 1989.
• Dodson, Carolyn. A Guide to Plants of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
• Garth, John Shrader & Tilden, James Wilson. California Butterflies. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1986.
• Jaeger, Edmund C. Desert Wild Flowers, Revised Edition. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1969.
• Jaeger, Edmund C. Our Desert Neighbors. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1950.
• Jaeger, Edmund C. The North American Deserts. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1957.
• Knute, Adrienne. Plants of the East Mojave. Cima, California: Wide Horizons Press, 1991.
• MacKay, Pam. Mojave Desert Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Wildflowers, Trees, and Shrubs of the Mojave Desert, Including the Mojave National Preserve, Death Valley National Park, and Joshua Tree National Park. Guilford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 2003.
• Moerman, Daniel E. Native American Ethnobotany. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1988.
• Munz, Philip A. (edited by Diane L. Renshaw & Phyllis M. Faber). Introduction to California Desert Wildflowers. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2004.
• Niehaus, Theodore F. & Ripper, Charles L. A Field Guide to Pacific States Wildflowers (a volume in the Peterson Field Guide Series). Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.
• Sawyer, John O. & Stuart, John D. Trees and Shrubs of California. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2001.
• Soule, J. A. Father Kino’s Herbs: Growing and Using Them Today. Tucson, Arizona: Tierra del Sol Press, 2011.

• Taylor, Ronald J. Desert Wildflowers of North America. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1998.
• Ward, Grace B. & Ward, Onas M. Desert Wildflowers. Palm Desert, California: Living Desert Association, 1978.

Websites:

• Animal Diversity Web: animaldiversity.org
• Avian World, Beauty of Birds: beautyofbirds.com
• Bug Guide: bugguide.net
• Butterflies and Moths of North America: butterfliesandmoths.org
• Butterflies of America: butterfliesofamerica.com
• CalFlora: calflora.org
• California Plant Names: Latin and Greek Meanings and Derivations – A Dictionary of Botanical and Biographical Etymology Compiled by Michael L. Charters: www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/
• CalPhotos: calphotos.berkeley.edu
• CalScape: calscape.org
• Digital Desert: digital-desert.com
• Environmental Nature Center: (specifically, their list of butterfly host plants: encenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/OC-butterfly-host-plants.pdf)
• The Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley: ucjeps.berkeley.edu
• NatureServe Explorer: explorer.natureserve.org
• Opuntia Web: opuntiads.com
• Robertson’s Words for a Modern Age: “A Dictionary of English Vocabulary Words Derived Primarily from Latin and Greek Sources, Presented Individually and in Family Units: wordinfo.info