WCC Library Hawaiʻi Collection: Top 20 Library Items

A general floral guide to Hawaii's plants found at warm, low attitudes for amateurs and professional botanists. This book is compiled from standard works of botany, from local publications, from information provided by residents of Hawaii, and from personal observations.

An important multivolume reference work on indigenous and non-native flowering plants in the Hawaiian Islands, with detailed botanical descriptions, classification, and information on distribution. Use the index in the last volume to locate information on a particular plant.

Describes more than 130 indigenous and endemic species of Hawaiian plants, their characteristics and habitats, and how they came to be.

"A history of land tenure change in Hawaiʻi
from traditional times until the 1848 Māhele, including an analysis of Hawaiian Aliʻi Nui and American Calvinists."