List of Plant Resources

     There are many great field guides out there and excellent websites for plant identification, but finding useful ones can be difficult, depending on where you live.  Here is a list of resources that I find useful.  This list is particularly applicable to the southern Illinois region, but includes other regions as well.  If you have any suggestions for the list, please leave them in the comments section.

Plants Resources for Southern Illinois

Field Guides

Illinois

• The Flora of Illinois by Robert Mohlenbrock.  Southern Illinois Press.  4^th ed. 2014.
• Illustrated Flora of Illinois series by Robert Mohlenbrock.  Southern Illinois Press.  Various years.
• Forest Trees of Illinois by Robert Mohlenbrock.  Illinois Department of Natural Resources.  2006.
• Trees of Illinois by Linda Kershaw. Lone Pine. 2007.
• Trees of Illinois by Stan Tekiela. Adventure Publications, Inc. 2006.
• Illinois Wildflowers by Don Kurz.  Cloudland.net publishing.  2004.
• Plants of the Chicago Region by Floyd Swink and Gerald Wilhelm. 
• Plant Communities of Southern Illinois by John Voigt and Robert Mohlenbrock.  Southern Illinois Press.  1964.
• Flora of Illinois by George Jones, 3^rd edition.  American Midland Naturalist.  1963.
• Flora of Southern Illinois by by Robert Mohlenbrock and John Voigt.  Southern Illinois Press.  1959.

Indiana

• Indiana Wildflowers by Kay Yatskievych.  Indiana University Press.  2000.

Iowa

• Wildflowers of Iowa Woodlands by Sylvan Runkel and Alvin Bull.  University of Iowa Press.  1979.
• Wildflowers and Other Plants of Iowa Wetlands by Sylvan Runkel and Dean Roosa.  University of Iowa Press.  1999.
• Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie by Sylvan Runkel and Dean Roosa.  University of Iowa Press.  1989.

Kentucky

• Plant Life of Kentucky by Ronald Jones.  The University Press of Kentucky.  2005.
• Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky by Thomas Barnes and S. Wilson Francis.  The University Press of Kentucky.  2004.

Missouri

• The Flora of Missouri volume 1 by George Yatskievych.  Missouri Botanical Garden Press. 1999.
• The Flora of Missouri volume 2 by George Yatskievych.  Missouri Botanical Garden Press. 2006.
• The Flora of Missouri volume 3 by George Yatskievych.  Missouri Botanical Garden Press. 2014.
• Trees of Missouri by Don Kurz.  Missouri Department of Conservation. 2003.
• Shrubs and Woody Vines of Missouri by Don Kurz.  Missouri Department of Conservation. 1997.
• A Key to Missouri Trees in Winter by Jerry Cliburn & Ginny Wallace.  Missouri Department of Conservation. 1990.
• Ozark Wildflowers by Don Kurz.  Morris Book Publishing.  1999.
• Missouri Wildflowers by Edgar Denison, 6^th edition.  Missouri Department of Conservation.  2008.

General

• Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb.  Little, Brown and Company.  1977.
• Wildflowers by Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny.  Houghton Mifflin Company.  1968.
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians by Dennis Horn and Tavia Cathcart.  Lone pine Publishing.  2005.
• Vascular Flora of the Carolinas by Albert Radford et. Al. University of North Carolina Press.  1968.
• Wildflowers of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes Region: A Comprehensive Field Guide by Merel Black and Emmet Judziewicz. Univerity of Wisconsin Press, 2009.
• Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: A Field Guide to the Northeastern United States by Steven Clements and Carol Gracie Oxford University Press, 2006.
• The New Britton & Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern States and Adjacent Canada by Henry A. Gleason.  NY Botanical Garden, 1968.
• Manual of Vascular Plants of the Northeastern States and Adjacent Canada by Gleason and Cronquist. NY Botanical Garden. Reprint 1991.
• Manual of the Grasses of the United States by A.S. Hitchcock. Dover edition, 1971
• Field Guide to Native Oak Species of Eastern North America by Stein, Binion & Acciavatti.  USDA, 2003.

Websites

• Illinois Botanizer on facebook, www.facebook.com/illinoisbotanizer
• Illinois Botanizer photography on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/100801363@N03/
• Illinois Botanizer blog, http://illinoisbotanizer.blogspot.com/
• Illinois Native Plant Society, www.facebook.com/illinoisplants
• Rapid Color Field Guide: Spring Flora of Southern Illinois, http://fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org/guides/guide/617
• Guide to Spring Wildflower Hikes in Southern Illinois, http://www.ill-inps.org/index.php/southern-chapter/publications
• Illinois Native Plant Society Southern Chapter,  www.facebook.com/southernillinoisplants
• Illinois Wildflowers, http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/
• Missouri Plants, http://web.archive.org/web/20121113064932/http://missouriplants.com/
• Minnesota Wildflowers, http://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/
• Kentucky Wildflowers, http://www.kywildflowers.info/
• Trees of Wisconsin, http://www.uwgb.edu/biodiversity/herbarium/trees/tree_list_by_Latin.htm
• Sedges of North America (LSU), http://www.herbarium2.lsu.edu/aba/
• 2011 Illinois Threatened & Endangered Species List, http://www.dnr.illinois.gov/ESPB/Documents/ETChecklist2011.pdf
• Plants in North America, http://www.keiriosity.com/gallery/main.php/v/plants/
• Name that Plant! http://namethatplant.net/
• New England botany Key, http://gobotany.newenglandwild.org
• Wildflowers of the Driftless Region, http://www.arrasimages.com/UMW.html#
• Weakley's Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States, http://www.herbarium.unc.edu/FloraArchives/WeakleyFlora_2012-Nov.pdf