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We love to support our local authors and our events allow us to give something back to the community as well. We offer book signings, talks, readings, writing workshops, and meals with an author—often accompanied with a slide show.

Attention to the Rarest And Least Understood

Fri, Jul 15  
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Barn Beach Reserve
Free

Discover Washington's Rare Plants with botanists Pam Camp and Joseph Arnett

Sat, Jul 16  
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Bookstore
Free

Field Guide Authors Pam Camp and Joseph Arnett (Book-signing)

Joseph Arnett

Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington

Friday's slides present a virtual tour of the natural areas of Washington, highlighting the most uncommon and rarely seen plants in the state. Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington offers a window into the beauty and diversity of the rarest plants in the state, filling the long-standing need for a comprehensive guide to the rare plants of Washington. This work is the product of an intensive collaboration between the Bureau of Land Management, the Washington Natural Heritage Program, and the Washington Native Plant Society.

Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington includes:

  • 317 vascular plants, six mosses, and one lichen
  • Full-color photographs of the plants and their habitats, line drawings, and distribution maps
  • Detailed species descriptions, identification tips, and recommended times for making identifications
  • Current conservation status and state rank
  • Complete reference list, synonymies, and glossary
Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington

Each rare plant is fully characterized through rich description of its appearance, reproductive strategy, associated plants, and habitat, identification of current threats to its survival in Washington, and scarcity in areas outside the state. A trip across Washington presents an array of habitats, from dripping spruce and hemlock forests along the coast to arid grasslands and shrub-steppe and sand dune systems east of the mountains, from low-elevation out-wash prairies to treeless slopes of volcanoes and granite peaks, from basalt flows and rocky islands to salt marshes and tiny seeps and riparian edges. This book brings attention to the rarest and least understood plant species that find niches in this complex landscape.

Praise

"This guide will be the primary source of information on rare plants for land managers, ecological consultants, and others who need the most recent data on Washington's rare plants. I heartily endorse and recommend it." — Art Kruckeberg

"It is axiomatic that you cannot conserve that which you cannot find or identify, and that more biological losses owe to ignorance than to malice or indifference. This is why I take such heart and pleasure in the Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington. By refreshing the great botanical legacy of Hitchcock, Kruckeberg, Denton and their ilk with contemporary knowledge and nomenclature, enriched by thirty-three years of experience from the Washington Natural Heritage Program, the authors have created a clear and handsome volume of immense conservation importance for our time and for the challenging times to come. What we manage to save of our rich floristic heritage may be largely thanks to this book and its contributors." — Dr. Robert Michael Pyle, author of The Butterflies of Cascadia, Wintergreen, etc.

About the Authors

Pamela Camp is a private consultant in field biology and restoration ecology and former Spokane District Botanist with the Bureau of Land Management. Joseph Arnett is a botanist at the Washington Department of Natural Resources. Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington is edited by Pamela Camp and John G. Gamon, with assistance from Joe Arnett, David Giblin, Catherine Hovanic, Jack McMillen, and Jeanne Ponzetti.

Field Guide to the Rare Plants of WashingtonBuy a SIGNED copy of Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Washington - $39.95

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