Rooted in Time : Living Fossils and Other Tenacious Plants / Carole T. Gee ; illustrated by Channing Redford.

Preface. The making of a plant lover
Living fossils : morphological look-alikes, tenacious survivors, and relict members of ancient lineages
Cyanobacteria and stromatolites : the toughest and longest-lived green survivors
Standing tall
Clubmosses & Co.
The horsetail or scouring rush equisetum
Ferns and tree ferns
Bearing seeds and woody cones
Cycads
The maidenhair tree ginkgo
Araucarias, kauris, and the wollemi pine
Podocarps
The dawn redwood metasequoia
The japanese umbrella pine sciadopitys
Coming into flower
The waterlilies nymphaea and nuphar
The sacred lotus nelumbo
The mangrove palm nypa.