The RSABG Library regularly acquires new resources that compliment and enhance the collection. Whether we purchase material, receive gifts, donations or exchange with other botanical institutions, the RSABG collections continue to grow.

The public is welcome to visit the library to use the collections and many reference materials. Please contact Irene Holiman, either by email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phone, (909) 625-8767 ext. 210, for more information or to make an appointment to use the collection.

Library hours: Monday through Friday 9 a.m. until 12 p.m., 1 until 4 p.m.

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New Acquisitions in Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Library – Winter 2012

Baja California Plant Field Guide
by Jon P. Rebman, Norman C. Roberts; with contributions from Exequiel Ezcurra [et al].
3rd edition, Sun Belt Publications San Diego, CA : San Diego Natural History Museum, 404 pp.(2012)

A useful guide for the entire Sonoran Desert and for Southern California, as over 50 percent of the species covered also occur in these regions. Over 715 different plants in 111 plant families are identified (most in both English and Spanish), with both scientific and common names and detailed descriptions, (plant habit and height; stem, leaf, flower and fruit morphology; range; elevation; pollination biology; ethnobotanical uses). Intended for everyone from the interested novice to the professional botanist.

This book is available through the California Garden Gift Shop.
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The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest
by Jack Nisbet
Seattle, WA : Sasquatch Books; [New York, NY] : Distributed by PGW/Perseus, 290 pp. (2009)

Author Nisbet tracks David Douglas’s, (premier botanical explorer in the Pacific Northwest and western North America) fascinating history, from his humble birth in Scotland in 1799 to his botanical training under the famed William Jackson Hooker. Details his adventures in North America discovering exotic new plants for the English and European market. Takes readers along on Douglas' journeys into a literal brave new world of then-obscure realms from Puget Sound to the Sandwich Islands. In telling Douglas' story, Nisbet evokes a lost world of early exploration, pristine nature, ambition and cultural and class conflict with surprisingly modern resonances.

A Guide to Plants of the Northern Chihuahuan Desert
by Carolyn Dodson ; with drawings by Robert DeWitt Ivey
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 194 pp. (2012)

Includes common and Latin plant names along with information on each plants strategies for survival; cultural history; medicinal, nutritional, and toxic properties. Arranged in five sections: Trees and Shrubs, Succulents, Cacti, Wildflowers (further grouped by flower color), and Nonflowering Plants. Each plant profile is illustrated with a drawing by botanist Robert DeWitt Ivey and a photograph by the author.

Manual of Montana Vascular Plants
by Peter Lesica ; contributions by Matt Lavin and Peter F. Stickney ; illustrations by Debbie McNiel, Rich Adams, Claire Emery, Peter Lesica
Fort Worth : BRIT Press, 771 pp. (2012)

Comprehensive field guide to the more than 2,500 species of Montana’s vascular plants. Contains descriptions as well as habitat and distribution information. Portraits or illustrations of diagnostic structures are provided for nearly one-third of the species.

Pollination and Floral Ecology
by Pat Willmer
Princeton, N.J.:Princeton University Press, 778 pp. (2011)

Provides the most up-to-date resource on pollination and floral ecology. Describes flower advertising features and rewards, foraging and learning by flower-visiting animals, behaviors of generalist and specialist pollinators—and more. Examines the ecology and evolution of animal-flower interactions, from the molecular to macroevolutionary scale

San Diego County Native Plants
by James Lightner
San Diego, Calif.:San Diego Flora, 428 pp. (2011)

Features more than 1,000 native and naturalized species. Highlights rare plants listed in Habitat Conservation Plans. Multiple photo of each plant provide more complete information.

This book is available through the California Garden Gift Shop.
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