Minnesota’s Native Plants Selected Books - Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

1. Minnesota’s Native Plants
Selected Books
**The following books were still in print as of March 1996
Wildflowers
Case, F.W., Jr. 1987. Orchids of the western Great Lakes region. Rev.ed.Bulletin 48. Bloomfield Hills, Mich.:
Cranbrook Institute of Science. (llus., part col.)
Courtenay, B. & J.H. Zimmerman. 1972. Wildflowers and weeds.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. (color illus.)
Daniel, G. & J. Sullivan. 1981. A Sierra Club naturalist's guide to the North woods of Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. (illus.)
Eggers, S.D. & D.M. Reed. 1987. Wetland plants and plant communities of Minnesota & Wisconsin.
St. Paul, Minnesota: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St.Paul District. (illus.,color photos)
Farrar, J. 1990. Field guide to wildflowers of Nebraska and the Great Plains.
Lincoln, Neb.: Nebraskaland Magazine : Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. (illus., some color, map)
Ladd, D. & F. Oberle. 1995. Tallgrass prairie wildflowers: a field guide.
Helena and Billings, Montana: Falcon Press Publishing Co., Inc. (color photos)
Moyle, J.B. & E.W. Moyle. 1977. Northland wild flowers a guide for the Minnesota region.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (illus., some color)
Niering, W.A. & N.C. Olmstead. 1979. The Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers, eastern
region. New York: Knopf. (color illus)
Newcomb, L. 1977. Newcomb's wildflower guide. 1st ed.
Boston: Little, Brown Co. (illus.)
Peterson, R.T. & M. McKenny. 1968. A field guide to wildflowers of northeastern and north-central North America.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. (illus., some color)
Runkel, S.T. & D.M. Roosa. 1989. Wildflowers of the tallgrass prairie: the upper Midwest. 1st ed.
Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press.
Smith, W.R. 1993. Orchids of Minnesota.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (illus., maps, color photos)
Van Bruggen, T. 1992. Wildflowers, grasses & other plants of the northern plains and Black Hills. 4th ed. Interior, SD:
Badlands Natural History Association. (illus.)
Vance, F.R., J.R. Jowsey, & J. S. McLean. 1984. Wildflowers of the Northern Great Plains. 2nd, rev. ed. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press. (illus., some color)
Walshe, S. 1980. Plants of Quetico and the Ontario shield.
Toronto; Buffalo: Published for the Quetico Foundation by University of Toronto Press. (color illus.)

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Trees & Shrubs
Little, E.L. 1980. The Audubon Society field guide to North American trees: western area.
New York: Knopf. (illus., some color, maps)
Petrides, G.A. 1972. A field guide to trees and shrubs. 2nd ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (illus., some color)
Preston, R.J. Jr. 1989. North American tree: exclusive of Mexico and tropical Florida. 4th ed.
Ames: Iowa State University Press. (illus.)
Grasses & Sedges
Pohl, R.W. 1954. How to know the grasses.
Dubuque, Iowa: W.C. Brown Co. (illus)
Fungi
Bessette, A. & W.J. Sundberg. 1987. Mushrooms: a quick reference guide to mushrooms of North America. New York:
McMillan.
Christensen, C.M. 1981. Edible mushrooms. 2nd ed., rev.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Courtenay, B. & H.H. Burdsall, Jr. 1982. A field guide to mushrooms and their relatives.
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. (illus.)
Huffman, D.M., L.H. Tiffany & G. Knaphus. 1989. Mushrooms & other fungi of the midcontinental United States.
Ames: Iowa State University Press.
Lincoff, G.H. 1981. The Audubon Society field guide to North American mushrooms.
New York: A.A. Knopf.
McKnight, K.H. & V.B. McKnight. 1987. A field guide to mushrooms, North America.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. (illus.)
Miller, O.K. 1979. Mushrooms of North America.
New York: Dutton.
Phillips, R. 1991. Mushrooms of North America.
Boston: Little, Brown.
Smith, A.H. & N.S. Weber. 1980. The mushroom hunter’s field guide. All col. and enl.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

3. Native Plant Organizations
MN Native Plant Society MN Mycological Society MN Orchid Society
220 Biological Sciences Center 4424 Judson Lane Dave Johnson
1445 Gortner Ave. Edina, MN 55435-1621 571-6278
St. Paul, MN 55108
Compiled by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Ecological Services. July 1996.