Every Summer in the American Southwest and northern Mexico the region's mountain grasslands and mountain ranges are carpeted by an astounding variety of colorful wildflowers. Indeed, the blooming of upland wildflowers constitutes a "second season" for Southwest residents and visitors, alike. In Wildflowers of the Southwest Mountains, botanist and educator Meg Quinn identifies and describes the most common and showy wildflowers native to the region's grassland and woodland habitats.