Following his well-received books – Mountain Wildflowers of Southern Arizona: A Field Guide to the Santa Catalina Mountains and Other Nearby Ranges, 2011, and Mountain Trees of Southern Arizona: A Field Guide, 2012, Frank S. Rose has now taken a closer look at over two hundred species of plants found in Southern Arizona. Using a powerful close-up camera, he has taken over 1, 000 color images to allow the viewer to see flowers not normally seen, that regularly get trampled because the entire plant looks so plain from a human’s eye level, or that get overlooked because the flowers are nearly invisible to the naked eye. Rose has taught us to see each of them in a new way. Each of these small wonders gets its own page, with views of the entire plant, to help with identification, and a zoom-in on the unexpected beauty. The book is part field guide and part slideshow of wonders seldom seen. Many of the flowering plants in Small Wonders are not included in the usual wildflower guides but are collected here in greater detail than ever before, revealing their truly astonishing hidden beauty. This is a book meant to please people with no particular training in botany as well as those who are well acquainted with the small wonders of the plant world.
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ANGIOSPERMS
FLOWERING PLANTS: EUDICOTS
ACANTHACEAE – Acanthus Family
AMARANTHACEAE – Amaranth Family
APIACEAE – Carrot Family
APOCYNACEAE – Dogbane Family
ARALIACEAE – Ginseng Family
ARISTOLOCHIACEAE – Birthwort Family
ASTERACEAE – Composite or Sunflower Family
BORAGINACEAE – Borage Family
BRASSICACEAE/CRUCIFERAE – Mustard Family
CAMPANULACEAE – Bellflower Family
CARYOPHYLLACEAE – Pink Family
CONVOLVULACEAE – Morning Glory Family
CORNACEAE – Dogwood Family
CRASSULACEAE – Stonecrop or Orpine Family
CUCURBITACEAE – Cucumber Family
CUSCUTACEAE – Dodder Family
EUPHORBIACEAE – Spurge Family
FABACEAE – Bean Family
FAGACEAE – Beech Family
GENTIANACEAE – Gentian Family
HYDROPHYLLACEAE – Waterleaf Family
JUGLANDACEAE – Walnut Family
LAMIACEAE – Mint Family
MALVACEAE – Mallow Family
MOLLUGINACEAE – Carpetweed Family
MONOTROPACEAE – Indian Pipe Family
MONTIACEAE – Miner’s Lettuce Family
NYCTAGINACEAE – Four O’clock Family
ONAGRACEAE – Evening Primrose Family
OROBANCHACEAE – Broomrape Family
PHYTOLACCACEAE – Pokeberry Family
PLANTAGINACEAE – Plantain Family
POLEMONIACEAE – Phlox Family
POLYGALACEAE – Milkwort Family
POLYGONACEAE – Buckwheat Family
PRIMULACEAE – Primrose Family
RANUNCULACEAE – Buttercup Family
RHAMNACEAE – Buckthorn Family
ROSACEAE – Rose Family
RUBIACEAE – Madder Family
RUTACEAE – Rue Family
SANTALACEAE – Sandalwood Family
SAPINDACEAE – Soapberry Family
SAXIFRAGACEAE – Saxifrage Family
SCROPHULARIACEAE – Figwort Family
SIMMONDSIACEAE – Jojoba Family
SOLANACEAE – Nightshade Family
VERBENACEAE – Verbena Family
VIOLACEAE – Violet Family
VITACEAE – Grape Family
FLOWERING PLANTS – MONOCOTS
CYPERACEAE – Sedge Family
JUNCACEAE – Rush Family
LILIACEAE – Lily Family
ORCHIDACEAE – Orchid Family
POACEAE – Grass Family
GYMNOSPERMS
CUPRESSACEAE – Cypress Family
PINACEAE – Pine Family