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The first edition of The Jepson Manual was published in 1993 as The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California (TJM93), and was edited by James C. Hickman. [ 3 ] The second edition was published in 2012, as The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, Thoroughly Revised and Expanded (TJM2), and was edited by Bruce Gregg Baldwin, Douglas H ...
It was founded by Willis Linn Jepson in 1950, and named after him. [7] The Jepson Herbarium supports the Jepson eFlora, a taxonomic database that builds on and expands the second edition of The Jepson Manual. It describes itself as "the foremost authority on the native and naturalized vascular plants of California". [8]
Of California's total plant population, 2,153 species, subspecies, and varieties are endemic and native to California alone, according to the 1993 Jepson Manual study. [4] This botanical diversity stems not only from the size of the state, but also its diverse topographies , climates, and soils (e.g. serpentine outcrops ).
Introduction to California Plant Life, Revised Edition, by Robert Ornduff, Phyllis Faber, Todd Keeler-Wolf, ISBN 0-520-23704-8, 2003. A Natural History of California, Allan A. Schoenherr, ISBN 0-520-06922-6, 1995. The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California by James C Hickman, ISBN 0-520-08255-9, 1993.
Jepson wrote at least 11 books during his lifetime, with two focused on California's trees. His works include A Flora of California (1909), The Trees of California (1909); and the major A Manual of the Flowering Plants of California (1925), predecessor of The Jepson Manual (1993). A Flora of California – Volume I. San Francisco: Cunningham ...
: The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 0-520-08255-9 HTML fulltext; Stewart, Jon Mark (1998): Mojave Desert Wildflowers: p. 73. Jon Stewart Photography. ISBN 0-9634909-1-5
Juglans hindsii, commonly called the Northern California black walnut and Hinds's black walnut, is a species of walnut tree native to the western United States (California and Oregon). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is commonly called claro walnut by the lumber industry and woodworkers, and is the subject of some confusion over its being the root stock ...
As of April 2024, Plants of the World Online accepted the placement of M. villosa within M. odoratissima. [1] Older sources, such as the 2012 Jepson Manual, retain M. villosa as a separate species. [6]