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Plant Morphology - Information on leaf shapes, inflorescence types, plant families, and other botanical topics.
Plant Communities - Descriptions and images pertaining to plants which are associated with various environmental conditions.
Food, Gas, and Lodging - Listings of support services available to those exploring Death Valley NP.
Plant Quizzer - Test your ability to identify various plants commonly found in the Death Valley area!
Death Valley Area Hikes - Hiking around Death Valley can be quite an adventure. There are many well-developed trails, but there are also many hikes that traverse poorly maintained trails as well as some that require some route-finding skills. This section includes route descriptions for hikes in and around Death Valley NP.

Desert Plant and Wildflower Books:

Baldwin et. al. The Jepson Desert Manual: Vascular Plants of Southeastern California. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2002.
Blackwell, Laird. Great Basin Wildflowers: A Guide to Common Wildflowers of the High Deserts of Nevada, Utah, and Oregon. Falcon, Helena, 2006.
Blackwell, Laird. Wildflowers of the Eastern Sierra and Adjoining Mojave Desert and Great Basin. Lone Pine Publishing, Edmonton, 2002.
Bowers, Janice. Flowers and Shrubs of the Mojave Desert. Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Tucson, 1999.
Bowers, Janice. Shrubs and Trees of the Southwest Deserts. Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, Tucson, 1993.
DeDecker, Mary. Flora of the Northern Mojave Desert, California. California Native Plant Society, Riverside, 1984.
Ferris, Roxana. Death Valley Wildflowers. Chalfant Press, Inc., Bishop, 1981.
Larsen, Wes. A Field Folio of Indian and Pioneer Medicinal Plants. Third Mesa Publishing Co., Toquerville (Utah), 1996.
Jaeger, Edmund. Desert Wild Flowers. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1988.
MacKay, Pam. Mojave Desert Wildflowers. Falcon, Guilford, 2003.
Morhardt and Morhardt. California Desert Flowers. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004.
Munz, Philip. A California Flora, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1969.
Munz, Philip. Introduction to California Desert Wildflowers. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004.
Stewart, Jon Mark, Mojave Desert Wildflowers. Jon Stewart Photography, Albuquerque, 1998.
Taylor, Ronald J., Sagebrush Country: A Wildflower Sanctuary. Mountain Press Publishing, Missoula, 1992.

A pamphlet published by the Death Valley Natural History Association titled Wildflowers of Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert was also very useful.

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Death Valley Books:

Belden, L. Burr, Mines of Death Valley, La Siesta Press, Glendale, 1985.
Bryan and Tucker-Bryan, The Explorer's Guide to Death Valley National Park, University Press of Colorado, Niwot, 1995.
Cole, O. N., Trona Trivia, (Set, Printed, and Published by Lisa Rains, Trona, CA, 1994).
Digonnet, Michel. Hiking Death Valley: A Guide To Its Natural Wonders and Mining Past, Quality Books, Palo Alto, 1997.
Digonnet, Michel. Hiking Western Death Valley National Park: Panamint, Saline, and Eureka Valleys, Quality Books, Palo Alto, 2009.
Hubbard, P. B., Bray, Doris, Pipkin, George. Ballarat Facts and Folklore (1897-1917), 1965.
Lingenfelter, Richard E., Death Valley and the Amargosa: A Land of Illusion, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1986.
Mitchell, Roger, Death Valley SUV Trails: A Guide to 46 Interesting Four-Wheeling Excursions in the Death Valley Country, Track and Trail Publishing, Oakhurst, 2001.
Murphy, Robert J., Wildrose Charcoal Kilns, Death Valley '49ers, Inc., Death Valley, 1972.
Zdon, Andy, Desert Summits: A Climbing and Hiking Guide to California and Southern Nevada, Spotted Dog Press, Bishop, 2006.

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