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Drought-tolerant plants

Here are entered works on plants that endure drought conditions and may be used to reduce water consumption and conserve water resources.

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Plants

• Drought-enduring plants
• Drought-hardy plants
• Drought-resistant plants
• Low water use plants
• Water-conserving plants

• Water Wise: Native Plants for Intermountain Landscapes (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), by Wendy Mee, Jared Barnes, Roger K. Kjelgren, and Richard K. Sutton (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Flowering Earth (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1939), by Donald Culross Peattie, illust. by Paul Landacre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acta Horti Gothoburgensis (partial serial archives)
• Botany for Beginners: An Introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on Botany, for the Use of Common Schools and the Younger Pupils of Higher Schools and Academies (stereotype edition; New York: Huntington and Savage, 1849), by Mrs. Lincoln Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Botany for Beginners: An Introduction to Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on Botany, for the Use of Common Schools and the Younger Pupils of Higher Schools and Academies (stereotype ed.; New York: F.J. Huntington, and Mason and Law, 1851), by Mrs. Lincoln Phelps (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Samoa (Department of Marine Biology v20, Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #341; 1924), by William Albert Setchell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Chemistry of Plant Constituents (revised edition; Minneapolis: Burgess Pub. Co., 1943), by Ole Gisvold and Charles H. Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ethnobotany of the Hopi (Museum of Northern Arizona bulletin #15; Flagstaff: Northern Arizona Society of Science and Art, 1939), by Alfred F. Whiting (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mineralization (A New Basis for Proper Nutrition): Will It Reach You in Time? (c1941), by Albert Carter Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Insectivorous Plants, by Charles Darwin
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at Charles Darwin Online
  • Gutenberg text

• A Flora of the Economic Plants of California (Berkeley, CA: Associated Students Store, c1924), by Willis Linn Jepson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Cornell
• A Flora of Western Middle California (1911), by Willis Linn Jepson (page images at Google; US access only)

• Flora of Southern California (Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923), by Anstruther Davidson and George L. Moxley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fieldiana: Botany (partial serial archives)
• Methods of Descriptive Systematic Botany (book starts a few pages in; New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1925), by A. S. Hitchcock (page images at Gallica)
• Botanical Leaflets: A Series of Studies in the Systematic Botany of Miscellaneous Dicotyledonous Plants (9 leaflets; Chicago: The author, 1950-1954), by Earl Edward Sherff (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Botanical Series (Field Museum) (full serial archives)
• Botany for Ladies: or, A Popular Introduction to the Natural System of Plants, According to the Classification of De Candolle (London: J. Murray, 1842), by Mrs. Loudon
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Names in Current Use for Extant Plant Genera, ed. by Werner Greuter, Richard K. Brumitt, Ellen R. Farr, Norbert Kilian, Paul M. Kirk, and Paul C. Silva (searchable HTML in Germany)
• Philosophia Botanica (in Latin; Madrid: P. Marin, 1792), by Carl von Linné, ed. by Casimiro Gómez Ortega (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Philosophia Botanica: In Qua Explicantur Fundamenta Botanica Cum Definitionibus Partium, Exemplis Terminorum, Observationibus Rariorum, Adjectis Figuris Aeneis (in Latin; Stockholm: G. Kiesewetter, 1751), by Carl von Linné
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Munsell Color Charts for Plant Tissues (first edition; Baltimore: Munsell Color Co., 1952), by Munsell Color (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaf Xanthophylls (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #490, 1938), by Harold H. Strain, contrib. by H. A. Spoehr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Studies on the Vegetation of Cyprus, Based Upon Researches During the Spring and Summer 1905 (Bergens Museums Skrifter, new series v1 #2, in English and Latin; Bergen: J. Griegs, 1914), by Jens Holmboe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sulfuric Acid Rain Effects on Crop Yield and Foliar Injury (Corvallis, OR: Environmental Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ca. 1980), by Jeffrey J. Lee, Grady E. Neely, and Shelton C. Perrigan
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Green Carbon: The Role of Natural Forests in Carbon Storage, Part 1: A Green Carbon Account of Australia's South-Eastern Eucalypt Forests, and Policy Implications (2008), by Brendan G. Mackey, Heather Keith, Sandra L. Berry, and David Lindenmayer (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• On the Influence of the Blue Color of the Sky in Developing Animal and Vegetable Life (10th edition; Philadelphia: Inquirer book and job print, 1871), by A. J. Pleasonton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Electricity in Agriculture and Horticulture (London: "The Electrician" Printing and Pub. Co.; et al., 1904), by Selim Lemström (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Elektrokultur: Erhöhung der Ernte-Erträge aller Kultur-Pflanzen durch Elektrische Behandlung (in German; Berlin: W. Junk, 1902), by Selim Lemström, trans. by Otto Pringsheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Compaction of Soil by Agricultural Equipment (revised edition of Bulletin #1881; Richmond, CA: Division of Agricultural Sciences, University of California, 1977), by W. J. Chancellor (page images at HathiTrust)

• Water Relations of Plants and Soils (San Diego: Academic Press, c1995), by Paul J. Kramer and John S. Boyer (PDF files at Delaware)

• History of the Australian Vegetation: Cretaceous to Recent (originally published 1994; this edition Adelaide: University of Adelaide Press, 2017), ed. by Robert S. Hill (PDF with commentary at Adelaide)
• Species and Varieties: Their Origin by Mutation (second edition; Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1906), by Hugo de Vries, ed. by Daniel Trembly MacDougal (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Fijian Plant Studies (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #141; Honolulu: The Museum, 1936), by Albert C. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Plants From Fiji (3 volumes (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletins #74, #83, and #91); 1930-1932), by John Wynn Gillespie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Folk-Lore of Plants, by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (Gutenberg text)
• Flowers and Their Associations (London: C. Knight, 1840), by Anne Pratt (page images at Google)
• The Mistletoe and its Philosophy: Shewing its History, The Origin of its Mystical and Religious Rites; Why This Weird Plant Was Preferably Chosen to Others; Its Legendary Connection with the Great World Reformer, Rama; Along With a Description of Several Rare Plants and Herbs That Possess Mystical Properties (Loudsville, GA: P. Davidson; Glasgow: B. Goodwin, 1898), by P. Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Gardens of Hawaii (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Special Publication #40; Honolulu: The Museum, 1948), by Marie C. Neal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Legends of Incense, Herb and Oil Magic (New York: Dorene Pub. Co., c1938), by Lewis De Claremont (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Flora Hawaiiensis: The New Illustrated Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (7 looseleaf volumes; 1932-ca. 1975), by Otto Degener and Isa Degener (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-Four Plates Painted in Water-Colours and Described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr. (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885), by Mrs. Francis Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Anthokinetics: The Physiology and Ecology of Floral Movements (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #420; 1932), by Glenn W. Goldsmith and A. L. Hafenrichter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Power of Movement in Plants, by Charles Darwin, contrib. by Francis Darwin
  • illustrated HTML and page images with commentary at Charles Darwin Online
  • Gutenberg text
• The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, by Charles Darwin
  • HTML with commentary at Charles Darwin Online
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• The Red Plant (Philadelphia and New York: American Sunday-School Union, c1872), by Lucy Ellen Guernsey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• About Plants, With Many Engravings (Worcester, MA: J. Grout, Jr., ca. 1840) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Herb of the Field (revised and corrected; London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1887), by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Out-Door World: or, Young Collector's Handbook (London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893), by William S. Furneaux
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Florida

• Flora Malesiana, Series I: Spermatophyta (partial serial archives)

• Experiments Upon Vegetables: Discovering Their Great Power of Purifying the Common Air in the Sun-Shine, and of Injuring It in the Shade and at Night; To Which is Joined a New Method of Examining the Accurate Degree of Salubrity of the Atmosphere (London: Printed for P. Elmsly and H. Payne, 1779), by Jan Ingenhousz (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.