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For over 25 years, Dr. Jim Griffin (left) worked at Hastings on various aspects of plants and plant ecology. Jim wrote a flora, (or a book describing each plant) for Hastings. For each plant, Jim wrote up a brief description and included some interesting natural history. The Flora of Hastings is based on over 3,000 specimens of plants preserved by Jim and kept in the Hastings herbarium.
Vascular Plants
A
species list of Hastings vascular plants (HTML) (or
plain text-faster download) is
available and is based on the Flora of Hastings Reservation, Carmel
Valley, California. 1995.
Griffin, James T., 3rd. Edition (Stromberg, Mark R., Berman, R.,
and Mathews,
M. A., eds.) 90 pp. Museum of Vertebrate
Zoology, University of California Berkeley. You can download
the Flora of Hastings as a
PDF file (2 Mb) and take it to your local print shop if you want
a hard copy. We no longer sell printed copies.
Jim
Griffin co-authored a book, "Distribution
of Forest Trees in California" and we have made this book,
otherwise out of print, available on this website (click
here-bottom of page).
A
short Hastings Plant Bibliograpy is
available; for more updated bibliography, check the updated, searchable
Hastings Bibliography (left).
The University of California Jepson
Flora Project presents additional information on the California
flora. An online
version of the Jepson Manual is also available.
Bryophytes
We
also have lists of the Bryophtes
at Hastings, (Mosses, Liverworts,
Hornworts) as well as Excel datasets for the specimens collected at Hastings.
Lichens
We
also have lists of the Lichens
at Hastings, based on a single sample. Sampling by members of the American
Society of Lichenologists, in a field trip of 25 collectors in July, 2008
will add another list.
Vegetation Data
We
have compiled various data sets on the cover or frequency of plant present
at Hastings. Vegetation
data has been taken at Hastings since the early
1970s.
Other Resources Include:
An Illustrated Flora of Monterey County. 1998. Mathews, M. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento. It has drawings of each species! This book is available through the Monterey Chapter, California Native Plant Society
Plants Eaten By Mammals at Hastings. 1940's. Jean Linsdale. For most species of Hastings plants, a small section of leaf was cleared and mounted on a microscope slide to show the cell walls and patterns of cellular structure. These microscope slides are labeled for each species. Using this reference collection of plant tissues, the gut contents of many small mammals were examined and a list of plants found to be eaten by Hastings mammals was compiled. This list was scanned in 2003 and is available as a PDF file.
Distribution maps, color pictures, etc. of Hastings plants, go to Cal Flora. Cal Flora was shut down in early 2003 due to budget cuts, but it is back!You can copy the scientific name of the plant from the plant list here into the NatureServe search page and obtain other information on state, federal status, images, distribution, ecology, and literature for each species.