Books
References
These are useful references to have on hand, ones which we have found useful and interesting. If you know of other such references we would be happy to include them on our list, contact: jeanw @ ncwildflower.org.
- Native Plants
- Wildflowers
- Orchids & Trilliums
- Ferns
- Grasses
- Trees & Shrubs
- Mushrooms
- Gardening
- Propagation
- Uses
- Other
- Aliens & Weeds
- Publisher/Bookstore Links
Native Plants
- A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region: North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
- by Bruce Sorrie
- http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1895
- Aquatic and Wetland Plants of the Southeastern United States
- by Robert K. Godfrey and Jean W. Wooten
- ISBN 0-8203-0420-4 cloth
- Armitage's Native Plants for North American Gardens
- by Allan M. Armitage
- Timber Press
- ISBN: 0-88192-760-0
- http://www.timberpress.com/books/isbn.cfm/0-88192-760-0
- Botanica North America: The Illustrated Guide to Our Native Plants, Their Botany, History, and the Way They Have Shaped Our World
- by Marjorie Harris
- HarperCollins, 2003
- ISBN 0-06-270231-9
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses
- by James H. Miller and Karl V. Miller
- University of Georgia Press, 2005
- ISBN 0-8203-2748-4
- Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge
- by B. Eugene Wofford
- University of Georgia Press, 1989
- ISBN 0-8203-1080-8
- Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas
- by Albert E. Radford, Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell
- University of North Carolina Press, 1968
- ISBN 0807810878
- Manual of the vascular flora of Nags Head Woods, Outer Banks, North Carolina
- New York Botanical Garden Press
- http://www.nybgshop.org/Manual-of-the-Vascular-Flora-of-Nags-Head-Woods-Outer-Banks-North-Carolina-p-21584.html
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide
- by Lawrence Newcomb
- http://www.amazon.com/Newcombs-Wildflower-Guide-Lawrence-Newcomb/dp/0316604429/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1
- The Illustrated Book of Wildflowers and Shrubs: The Comprehensive Field Guide to More Than 1,300 Plants of Eastern North America
- by William Carey Grimm, and John T. Kartesz
- Stackpole Books, Revised and Updated edition 1993
- ISBN 0811730859
- The Natural Gardens of North Carolina
- by B. W. Wells
- http://uncpress.unc.edu/chapters/wells_natural.html
- Net royalties from this revised edition go towards the B.W. Wells Stewardship Fund
- Wild North Carolina: Discovering the Wonders of Our State’s Natural Communities
- by David Blevins and Michael Schafale
- http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1888
- Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont: A Naturalist’s Guide to the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Georgia
- by Timothy Spira
- http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=1872
- Woody plants of the southeastern United States: A field botany course on CD
- Missouri Botanical Garden Press
- Version 1: http://www.mbgpress.info/index.php?task=id&id=08025
- Version 2:
- http://www.metisllc.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=7
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Wildflowers
- A Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-Central North America (A Peterson Field Guide)
- by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny
- Houghton Mifflin, Revised 1998;
- ISBN 0395911729
- A Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wildflowers
- by C. Colston Burrell
- ISBN 0-87596-723-X
- A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina
- by Richard Dwight Porcher and Douglas Alan Rayner
- http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2001/3438.html
- A Guide to the Wildflowers of South Carolina
- by Richard Dwight Porcher and Douglas Alan Rayner
- University of South Carolina Press, 2002;
- ISBN 1-57003-437-0 (cloth); ISBN 1-57003-438-9 (paper)
- A Guide to Wildflowers in Winter: Herbaceous Plants of Northeastern North America
- by Carol Levine
- Yale Univ Press, 1995
- ISBN 0300065604
- All About North Carolina Wildflowers
- by Jan W. Midgley
- The book is available from Books-A-Million. (If they are out-of-stock, see their New and Used Marketplace link on the same page)
- Appalachian Wildflowers: An Ecological Guide to Flowering Plants from Quebec to Georgia
- by Thomas E. Hemmerly; University of Georgia Press, 2000;
- ISBN 0-8203-2164-8 (hardcover); ISBN 0-8203-2181-8 (paperback)
- Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States
- by Alan Weakley; University of North Carolina Herbarium
- Current Version as of this entry: March, 2010;
- Entire Text is Online (that is, free!) at http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/flora.htm
- To purchase a hard-bound copy, contact Carol Ann McCormick at 919-962-6931
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide
- by Lawrence Newcomb
- Little, Brown, and Company, 1977
- ISBN 0-316-60442-9
- Southern Wildflowers
- by Laura C. Martin and Mauro Magellan
- Longstreet Press, 1989
- ISBN 0-929264-17-7
- The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers,Eastern Region
- by William A. Niering and Nancy C. Olmstead
- Wildflowers for Your Garden
- by Helen Hull
- 1952
- Wild Flowers of North Carolina
- by William S. Justice, C. Ritchie Bell, and Anne H. Lindsey
- http://uncpress.unc.edu/FMPro?-DB=pubtest.fmp& -Format=a-detail.html&-RecID=34503&-Script=visited&-Find
- Wildflowers of Georgia
- by Hugh Nourse and Carol Nourse
- University of Georgia Press, 2000
- ISBN 0-8203-2179-6
- Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge Parkway
- by J. Anthony Alderman
- http://uncpress.unc.edu/FMPro?-DB=pubtest.fmp& -Format=a-detail.html&-RecID=32807&-Script=visited&-Find
- Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry and Lower Pee Dee
- by Richard Dwight Porcher
- ISBN 1-57003-094-4
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States
- by Wilbur H. Duncan and Marion B. Duncan
- University of Georgia Press, 1999
- ISBN 0-8203-2107-9
- http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/0820321079.html
- Wildflowers of the Southeastern United States
- by Wilbur H. Duncan and Leonard E. Foote
- University of Georgia Press, 1975
- ISBN 0-8203-0347-X
- Wildflowers of the Southern Appalachians
- by Kevin Adams, and Martha Casstevens
- John F. Blair Publications, 1996
- ASIN 089587143
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains
- by Richard M. Smith
- University of Tennessee Press, 1998
- ISBN 0-87049-992-0
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley and the Southern Appalachians
- by Dennis Horn & Tavia Cathcart
- ISBN-10: 55105-428-0
- http://www.lonepinepublishing.com/cat/1-55105-428-0
- Wildflowers in Color
- by Arthur Stupka with the assistance of Donald H. Robinson
- Harper & Row
- ISBN 0-06-090933-1
- Wildflower Prennials for Your Garden
- by Bebe Miles
- ISBN 0-8117-2660-6
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Orchids & Trilliums
- Native Orchids of North America North of Mexico
- by Donovan Stewart Correll
- Stanford University Press, 1978
- ISBN 0-8047-0999-8
- Trilliums
- by Frederick W. Case, Jr., and Roberta B. Case
- Timber Press, 1997
- ISBN 0-88192-374-5
- Trilliums in Woodland and Garden: American Treasures
- by Don Jacobs & Rob Jacobs
- Eco Gardens, 1997
- ISBN 0965835308
- Wild Orchids of South Carolina
- by James Fowler
- http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2004/3566.html
- Wild Orchids of the Middle Atlantic States
- by Oscar W. Gupton and Fred C. Swope
- The University of Tennessee Press, 1986
- ISBN 0-87049-509-7
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Ferns
- Ferns for American Gardens
- by John T. Mickel
- http://www.timberpress.com/books/isbn.cfm/0-88192-598-5
- Fern Finder
- by Anne C. Hallowell, Barbara G. Hallowell
- Nature Study Guild
- ISBN 0-912550-11-2
- Field Guide to the Ferns and Other Pteridophytes of Georgia
- by Lloyd H. Snyder Jr. and James G. Bruce
- University of Georgia Press, 1986
- ISBN 0-8203-0847-1
- http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/0820323853.html
- How to Know the Ferns and Fern Allies
- by John T. Mickel
- ISBN 0697047709 0697047717 (paper)
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Grasses
- Grasses: An Identification Guide
- by Lauren Brown
- Houghton Mifflin Co., Reprint 1979
- ISBN 0395628814
- The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses: Sedges, Rushes, Restios, Cat-tails, and Selected Bamboos
- by Rick Darke
- Timber Press, 1999
- ISBN 0-88192-464-4
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Trees & Shrubs
- A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Northeastern and North Central United States and Southeastern and South-Central Canada (A Peterson Field Guide)
- by George A. Petrides
- Houghton Mifflin, 1973
- ISBN 039535370X
- Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs, An Illustrated Encyclopedia
- by Michael A. Dirr
- http://www.timberpress.com/books/isbn.cfm/0-88192-404-0
- Native Shrubs and Woody Vines of the Southeast: Landscaping Uses and Identification
- by Leonard E. Foote and Samuel B. Jones, Jr.
- Timber Press, 1989
- ISBN 0-88192-416-4
- Teaching The Trees: Lessons from the Forest
- by Joan Maloof
- http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/082032955X.html
- The Book of Forest and Thicket: Trees, Shrubs, and Wildflowers of Eastern North America
- by John Eastman
- Stackpole Books, 1992
- ISBN 0811730468
- The Complete Trees of North America
- by Thomas S Elias
- Trees of Georgia and Adjacent States
- by Claud L. Brown and L. Katherine Kirkman
- Timber Press, 1990
- ISBN 0-88192-148-3
- Trees of Southeastern United States
- by Wilbur H. Duncan and Marion B. Duncan
- University of Georgia Press, 2000
- ISBN 0-8203-2271-7
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Mushrooms
- A Field Guide to Southern Mushrooms
- by Nancy W. Weber and Alexander H. Smith
- The Univ. of Mich. Press. First Edition edition (June 1, 1985)
- ISBN-10: 0472856154
ISBN-13: 978-0472856152 - It is reasonably priced; illustrated with excellent photos; and very easy to use.
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Gardening
- Birdscaping for Garden Spaces
- by George Adams
- D&G Publishing, 2009
- ISBN: 978-0-9807037-0-2
- Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded (Hardcover and Paperback)
- by Douglas W. Talamy
- (Tallamy is professor & chair of the Dept of Entomology and Wildlife Biology at the Univ. of Delaware.)
- Timber Press; Expanded Edition edition (April 1, 2009)
- ISBN-10: 0881929921
- ISBN-13: 978-0881929928
- Gardening with Native Plants of the South
- by Sally Wasowski with Andy Wasowski
- Taylor Publishing Co., 1994
- ISBN 0878338020
- Gardening with Native Wild Flowers
- by Samuel B. Jones, Jr. & Leonard E. Foote
- Timber Press, 1991
- ASIN 0881921750
- Landscaping with Nature
- by Jeff Cox
- Rodale Press, 1991
- ISBN 0-87857-911-7
- Natural Landscaping: Gardening with Nature to Create a Backyard Paradise
- by Sally Roth
- Rodale Press, 1997
- ISBN 0-87596-704-3
- Paradise by Design: Native Plants and the New American Landscape
- by Kathryn Phillips
- North Point Press, 1998
- ASIN 0865475199
- The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest
- by Rick Darke
- Timber Press, 2002
- ISBN 0881925454
- The Landscaping Revolution: Garden with Mother Nature Not Against Her
- by Andy Wasowski with Sally Wasowski
- Contemporary Books, 2003
- ISBN 007141312X
- The Natural Garden
- by Ken Druse
- Clarkson N. Potter, 1989
- ISBN 0517550466
- The Natural Shade Garden
- by Ken Druse
- Clarkson N. Potter, 1992
- ISBN 0517580179
- The Wild Gardener
- by Peter Loewer
- ISBN 0-8117-0885-3
- http://www.thewildgardener.com/booklist.htm
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Propagation
- North Carolina Native Plant Propagation Handbook
- by The North Carolina Wild Flower Preservation Society
- ordering instructions
- Collecting, Processing, and Germinating Seeds of Wildland Plants
- by James A. Young and Cheryl G. Young
- Timber Press, 1986
- ISBN 0-88192-057-6
- Growing and Propagating Showy Native Woody Plants
- by Richard E. Bir
- University of North Carolina Press, 1992
- ISBN 0-8078-2027-X (hardcover); ISBN 0-8078-4366-0 (paperback)
- Growing and Propagating Wild Flowers
- by Harry R. Phillips
- University of North Carolina Press, 1985
- ISBN 0-8078-4131-5
- Native Trees, Shrubs, and Vines: A Guide to Using, Growing, and Propagating North American Woody Plants
- by William Cullina
- Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002
- ISBN 0618098585
- New England Wildflower Society Guide to Growing and Propagating Wildflowers of the United States and Canada
- by William Cullina
- Houghton Mifflin, 2000
- ISBN 0-395-96609-4
- http://NCNPS2.notlong.com
- The New Wild Flowers and How to Grow Them
- by Edwin F. Steffek
- Timber Press, 1983
- ISBN 0-917304-51-9
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Uses
- Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia
- http://uncpress.unc.edu/FMPro?-DB=pubtest.fmp& -Format=a-detail.html&-RecID=34286&-Script=visited&-Find
- Native American Ethnobotany
- by Daniel E. Moerman
- http://www.timberpress.com/books/isbn.cfm/0-88192-453-9
- The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America
- by by Francois Couplan
- Keats Publishing, 1998
- ISBN 0-87983-821-3
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Other
- A Nature Guide to Northwest North Carolina
- by Stewart Skeate
- ISBN: 1-887905-96-0
- http://blairpub.com/outdoortitles/nature_guide_nwnc.htm
- North Carolina's Best Wildflower Hikes: The Mountains
- by Kevin Adams
- ISBN 1-56579-502-4
- http://www.kadamsphoto.com/bookstore.htm#hikes
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Aliens & Weeds
- Aliens in the Backyard Plant and Animal Imports into America
- by John Leland
- http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2005/3582.html
- Identifying Seedling & Mature Weeds,
- Jon Stucky
- The NC Agricultural Research Service (June 1980)
- Weeds (A Golden Guide)
- Alexander C. Martin
- Golden Press, Western Publishing Co.
- ISBN 0-307-24353-2
- Weeds of the South
- edited by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice
- ISBN 978-0-8203-3046-4
- http://www.ugapress.org/0820330469.html
Publisher & Bookstore Links
- Timber Press: Books on Gardening, Horticulture, Botany, Natural History
http://www.timberpress.com - Wildflower and Tree books and videos from Laurel Hill Press
http://www.laurelhillpress.com - Peterson Online: buy Peterson Guide Books from the Peterson Store!
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/peterson/ - Natural History Book Service - in England (showcases British books)
http://www.nhbs.com/
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