Reading List
This page contains selected reading material and reviews. You are encouraged to recommend additions to this list and perhaps write a review. To have material considered for this page, send it to Mike Strickland.
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Native Plants & ID
Printable List
American Azaleas
by L. Clarence Towe; Timber Press, 2004; ISBN 0-88192-645-0
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)
The Book of Forest and Thicket: Trees, Shrubs, and Wildflowers of Eastern North America
by John Eastman; Stackpole Books, 1992; ISBN 0811730468
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
Carnivorous Plants of the United States and Canada Second Edition
by Donald Schnell; Timber Press, 2002; ISBN 0-88192-540-3
Dogwoods
by Paul Cappiello & Don Shadow; Timber Press, 2005; ISBN 0-88192-679-5
The Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America
by Francois Couplan; Keats Publishing, 1998; ISBN 0-87983-821-3
Fall Color and Woodland Harvests
by C. Ritchie Bell and Anne H. Lindsey; Laurel Hill Press, 1990; ISBN 096086881X
Favorite Wildflower Walks in Georgia
by Hugh Nourse and Carol Nourse; University of Georgia Press, 2007; ISBN: 0-8203-2841-3
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
Field Guide to the Rare Plants of Georgia
by Linda G. Chafin; State Botanical Garden of Georgia in association with the Georgia Plant Conservation Alliance, 2007; ISBN: 0977962105
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
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
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
Grasses: An Identification Guide
by Lauren Brown; Houghton Mifflin Co., Reprint 1979; ISBN 0395628814
Guide to Flowering Plant Families
by Wendy B. Zomlefer; University of North Carolina Press, 1995; ISBN 978-0-8078-2160-2 (hardcover); ISBN 978-0-8078-4470-0 (paperback)
Guide to the Plants of Granite Outcrops
by William H. Murdy and M. Eloise Brown Carter; University of Georgia Press, 2000; ISBN 0-8203-2133-8
Guide to the Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge
by B. Eugene Wofford; University of Georgia Press, 1989; ISBN 0-8203-1080-8
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
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
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
Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians
by Patricia Kyritsi Howell; Botanologos Books, 2006; ISBN: 0977490505
Native Orchids of North America North of Mexico
by Donovan Stewart Correll; Stanford University Press, 1978; ISBN 0-8047-0999-8
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
Native Trees for North American Landscapes
by Guy Sternberg with Jim Wilson; Timber Press, 2004; ISBN 0-88192-607-8
Native Trees of Georgia
by G. Norman Bishop & George Foster Peabody; Georgia Forestry Commission, 2000; Available in PDF format from the Georgia Forestry Commission (www.gfc.state.ga.us/Education/nativetrees.cfm)
Newcombs Wildflower Guide
by Lawrence Newcomb; Little, Brown, and Company, 1977; ISBN 0-316-60442-9
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
Trilliums
by Frederick W. Case, Jr., and Roberta B. Case; Timber Press, 1997; ISBN 0-88192-374-5
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
Wildflowers of Georgia
by Hugh Nourse and Carol Nourse; University of Georgia Press, 2000; ISBN 0-8203-2179-6
Wildflowers of Tennessee
by Jack B. Carman; Highland Rim Press, 2001; ISBN 0-97084-180-9
Wildflowers of Tennessee the Ohio Valley and the Southern Appalachians
by Dennis Horn and Tavia Cathcart; Lone Pine Publishing, 2005; ISBN 1-55105-428-0
Wildflowers of the Eastern United States
by Wilbur H. Duncan and Marion B. Duncan; University of Georgia Press, 1999; ISBN 0-8203-2107-9
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 0895871432
Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains
by Richard M. Smith; University of Tennessee Press, 1998; ISBN 0-87049-992-0