• Home
• Introduction
• Species Index
• Maps
• Inventories
• Bibliography
• Contact

Bibliography

Some of these books are pretty old, but these include classics (e.g. Fernald, Gleason, Esau) and the others are helpful in one way or another. While the plants haven't changed much since these books were published, some new ideas have evolved and you might find plants that have been shifted to a different taxa, (e.g. poison ivy was once classified with the sumacs as Rhus radicans and is now classified with poison sumac and poison oak in the genus Toxicodendron). Search one of the databases on the "Links Page" or Wikipedia search to check on these taxonomic migrations.

The links provided take you to Amazon.com or a specialized publisher such as Bur Oak Books where you can find out more about availability and also find new publications dealing with these same topics. If you can't find what you want on Amazon.com, try Barnes and Noble.

• Plant Identification

• Fernald, M.L. and Gray, Asa 1950. Gray's Manual of Botany [read about Asa Gray]

• Swink, Floyd and Wilhelm, Gerould. 1994.Plants of the Chicago Region (4th Ed.) [read a pdf by G. Wilhelm"Memoir and Prospectus"]

• Eilers and Roosa. 1994. The Vascular Plants of Iowa

• Gleason, Henry A. 1968. The New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern United States and Canada (3 vol.)

• Gleason, Henry A. and Cronquist, Arthur. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada

• Holmgren, Noel H. 1998. Illustrated Companion to Gleason and Cronquist’s Manual of Vascular Plants

• Conard, Henry S. 1958. Plants of Iowa: Grinnell Flora

• Symonds, George W.W. 1963. The Shrub Identification Book

• Elpel, Thomas J. 5th Ed. 2008. Botany in a Day- (A good place to begin!)

• Grout, Abel J. 2009. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope

• Field Guides

• Christiansen, Paul and Müller, Mark. 1999. An Illustrated Guide to Iowa Prairie Plants

• Runckel, Sylvan T. and Roosa, Dean M. 2009. Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie

• Runkel, Sylvan T. and Bull Alvin F. 2009. Wildflowers of Iowa Woodlands

• Kirt, Russell R. 1995. Prairie Plants of the Midwest: Identification and Ecology

• Ladd, Doug and Oberle, Frank 2005 2nd Ed. Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers

• Venning, Frank D. 2001. Wildflowers of North America: A Guide to Field Identification

• National Audubon Society. 2001. Field Guide to Wildflowers: Eastern Region

• McKenny, Margaret and Peterson, Roger Tory. 1998. A Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-Central North America

• Brown, Lauren 1986. Weeds In Winter

• Plant Taxonomy

• Benson, Lyman. 1979. Plant Classification

• Borror, Donald J. 1960. Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms

• Lawrance, George H.M. 1955. An Introduction To Plant Taxonomy

• Plant Anatomy

• Esau, Katherine. 1977. Anatomy of Seed Plants

• Wood, Carroll E. 1974. A Student's Atlas of Flowering Plants: Some Dicotledons of Eastern North America

• Books by Iowa Talent

• Christiansen and Müller. 1999. An Illustrated Guide to Iowa Prairie Plants

• Eilers and Roosa. 1994. The Vascular Plants of Iowa

• Kurtz, Carl. 1996. Iowa's Wild Places: An Exporation with Carl Kurtz

• Kurtz, Carl. A practical guide to Prairie Reconstruction

• McGehee, Claudia. 2004. A Tallgrass Prairie Alphabet

• Mutel, Cornelia F. 2008. The Emerald Horizon

• Visit University of Iowa Press for more local talent.