  PLANT NAMES Be Serious About Plant Names But Not Too Serious THE DESERT WHAT AND WHERE IS IT? NATIONAL PARKS AND MONUMENTS AS WILDFLOWER SANCTUARIES By Natt N. Dodge SOUTHWESTERN MONUMENTS ASSOCIATION Globe, Arizona Copyright 1951, 1952, 1954 U. S. Department of the Interior This booklet is published by the Southwestern Monuments Association in keeping with one of its objectives, to provide accurate and authentic information about the Southwest. Other numbers of the Popular Series now in print are: (2) “Arizona’s National Monuments,” 1946; (3) “Poisonous Dwellers of the Desert,” in its fourth printing, 1951; (5) “Flowers of the Southwest Mesas,” 1951; (6) “Tumacacori’s Yesterdays,” 1951; (7) “Flowers of the Southwest Mountains,” 1952; and (8) “Animals of the Southwest Deserts,” April, 1954. A Technical Series will embody results of research accomplished by the staff and friends of Southwestern National Monuments. Notification of publications by the Association will be given upon date of release to such persons or institutions as submit their names to the Executive Secretary for this purpose. Dale Stuart King, Executive Secretary BOARD OF DIRECTORS
DALE STUART KING, Editor First Edition, 5,000 copies, published April 9, 1951 Printed in the United States of America by Map
Desert Areas of the West—this booklet deals with the common plants of three of them: (1) the Chihuahua; (2) the Sonoran; and (3) the Mojave. Plants of the higher plateau country of from 4,500 to 7,000-feet elevation are shown and described in “Flowers of the Southwest Mesas,” companion volume to this one, by Pauline M. Patraw and Jeanne R. Janish, 1951. Mountain zone vegetation (from the Ponderosa Pine belt, or about 7,000 feet, on up) is the subject of “Flowers of the Southwest Mountains,” the third of the triad, by Leslie P. Arnberger and Jeanne R. Janish. FLOWERS OF THE SOUTHWEST DESERTSBy Natt N. Dodge |
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