Book ID: 70137
Dawson, John and Rob Lucas
New Zealand Coast and Mountain Plants. Their Communities and Life Style. 1996. 180 col. photographs. 176 p. Paper bd.
Introd./ Forests of the sea/ The salty fringes of the land/ The ThreeKings and other offshore islands/ Open places between coast andmountain/ The upper limits of the forest and the mountain shrubland/Flowers of purest white: the tussock herbfield/ The harsh world ofthe vegetable sheep: the fellfield/ Cushion moorland on the flattopped Otago mountains/ Snow banks and cushion bogs/ The remarkableplants of steep shingle screes/ The bleak but beautiful subantarctic/People versus plants in the subantarctic/ Guessing at orgins/ Glossaryof common names.