* The first comprehensive field guide to the San Juans
* Also covers the Gulf Islands and southern Vancouver Island
* Includes an annotated checklist of all vascular plants recorded for San Juan County
Washington's jewel-like San Juan Islands, outdoor playground for both foot-and water-borne visitors, are also a joy and curiosity for the flower and plant lover, both amateur and professional. On these hilly, rocky islands, wild plants appear that would seem more properly to belong in the desert areas of eastern Washington, while other plants, common as grass in the western part of the state, are strangely absent from the Islands.