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by Matt
Ritter
Recently published by Kendall/Hunt, Plants
of San Luis Obispo is a natural history guide to
plant life in the area.
Plants of San Luis Obispo imparts
the story of the area’s botanical wonders in the
format of an easy-to-read natural history guidebook. This
part of California boasts an impressive diversity of plants,
with more than 1,300 different native species (more than
in the entire state of Alaska) and countless other introduced
weeds and horticultural plants. The book vividly portrays
the beauty, diversity, and history of the abundant and
widespread wild and weedy plants in the area surrounding
the city of San Luis Obispo and western portions of the
California Central Coast. Matt Ritter’s succinct,
non-technical prose is richly illustrated with the author’s
photographs of landscapes, plants, and flowers. Over
150 full-color pages describe the habitat, botany, ecology,
edible or medicinal properties, uses by Native Americans,
etymology, and gardening uses of more than 200 plants.
Encyclopedic in scope and full of interesting facts and
stories, this comprehensive naturalist’s guide is
a wonderful overview of a historically and botanically
rich area.
The
book is available at the El
Corral Bookstore and will soon be available at other
local and regional bookstores and online vendors.
 
 
   
 
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