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Plant of the Month for December, 2024
Each month, we feature a plant of the San Gabriel Mountains. The Plant-of-the-Month page is taken from the interactive CD-ROM,
Plants of the San Gabriel Mountains: Foothills and Canyons V2.0.
This late summer and fall flowering plant is still in bloom in parts of the San Gabriel Mountains. Its red tubular flowers provide important fall food for hummingbirds. |
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Plants of the San Gabriel Mountains:
Foothills and Canyons
Version 2.0
Available now online for free at www.natureathand.com/sgmplants
This interpretive guide has all of the great features of the first ever field guide on CD "Common Plants of Eaton Canyon and the San Gabriel Foothills":
- Multiple photos per plant
- Common and botanical names
- Plant and family descriptions
- Quiz
- Search
- twice as many plants (258 plants in 69 families),
- over 1800 beautiful photographs,
- natural history information,
- gardening with native plants,
- bird and butterfly information,
- illustrated one-click glossary,
- spoken botanical names,
- maps of plant distribution within California,
- expanded search capability, including leaf and flower characteristics,
- and more.
Now with updated botanical and family names.
Available now online for free at www.natureathand.com/sgmplants
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Nature Essays
Here are some essays by Gabi on subjects of nature and gardening with native plants. These essays have been published in newsletters of the California Native Plant Society, as well as the Eaton Canyon Nature Center. |
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