1 / FLORISTIC DIVERSITY AND DISCOVERY IN THE CALIFORNIA DESERT

By Jim Andre

Excellent article on how biodiverse the CA deserts are. 

scroll to page 3 of the PDF

3/ Flora of Griffith Park

By Daniel S. Cooper

A great Flora of one of LA's most iconic places. Lots of surprising plants in there.

5/ Vascular flora of the Liebre Mountains, western Transverse Ranges, California

By Steve Boyd 1999

The Liebre Mountains are in the NW corner of LA County and have the southern most population of Quercus garryana.

7/ Those black bears you see in Southern California, this is how they arrived

By Mark Landis 2019

Our local Black Bears are not native and they have quite the interesting history.

The San Bernardino Sun 

9/  Vascular flora of the Verdugo Mountains and San Rafael Hills, Los Angeles County, California

Soza, Valerie & Gross, L. & Boyd, Saxon & Fraga, Naomi. (2013). Vascular flora of the Verdugo Mountains and San Rafael Hills, Los Angeles County, California. 39. 1-140. 

2 / The Oak (Quercus) Biodiversity
of California and Adjacent Regions

By Kevin C. Nixon

The White Oak section of LA County is far from figured out, here's a good explainer of why its so complex.

4/ A Flora of Santa Catalina Island, California

By Robert F Thorne 1967

An old one but good one. Lots to learn about island biogeography in here.

6/ THE HERPETOFAUNA OF THE SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS

By Allan A. Schoenherr 1976

The Reptiles and Amphibians of the zone, divided by plant community. 

8/ A Checklist for the Eudicot Taxa of Los Angeles County

By Aleksi Baznekian 2013

Published by Jepson/UC Berkley