Educational Resources

Title

Year

Author

100 Families of Flowering Plants 2nd ed

1988

Hickey and King

A Botanist Vocabulary

2016

Pell and Angell

A California Flora

1973

Munz and Keck

A Field Guide to Plants of the Boise Foothills

2013

Utz

A Field guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers

1963

Craighead and others

A Field Guide to the Cascades and the Olympics

2004

Whitney and Sandelin

A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Rocky Mountains

2003

Schreier

A Guide to the Native Milkweeds of Oregon

2012

The Xerces Society

A manual of the Higher Plants of Oregon

1941

Peck

A Naturalist's Guide to Plant Communities of Pacific Northwest Dune Forests and Wetlands

2019

Poinar

A Quick Field Guide to Tidepools of the Pacific Coast

2008

Rigsby

A Sierra Nevada Flora

1996

Weeden

Alaska Trees and Shrubs

1972

Viereck and Little

All About Weeds

1968

Spencer

Alpine Flowers of Mount Rainier

2018

Tracy and Giblon

Alpine Flowers of the Olympic Mountains

2014

Houck

Alpine Plants of the Northwest

2013

Pojar and MacKinnon

AMA Handbook of Poisonous and Injurious Plants

1985

Lampe

Anatomy of Seed Plants 2nd Edition

1960

Esau

Aquatic and Riparian weeds of the West

2003

DiTomaso and Healy

Aquatic Plants of the Pacific Northwest

1960

Steward and others

Aquatic Plants of the US - Volume IV

1944

Muensher

Ball Redbook: Greenhouse Structures and Equipment 19th ed.

2021

Beytes

Botanical Latin 4th ed.

1975

Stewart

Botany for Gardeners 3rd ed.

2010

Capon

Botany Illustrated  Introduction to Plants, Major Groups, Flowering Plant Families 2nd ed.

2008

Glimn-Lacy

Bringing Nature Home How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants

2009

Tallamy

California Desert Wildflowers

2004

Munz

California Spring Wildflowers from the Base of the Sierra Nevada and Southern Mountains to the Sea

1961

Munz

Central Coast Wildflowers Monterrey, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties of California

1993

Coffeen

Coastal Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest

1994

Horn

Collecting and Preserving Plants

1994

MacFarlane

Collecting, Processing, germination seeds of wild land plants

1986

Young

Colorful Cacti of the American Deserts

1974

Lamb

Common Coulee Plants of Southern Alberta

1980

Kuijt

Common Marsh, Underwater, and Floating-leaved Plants

2011

Hotchkiss

Common Native and Invasive Wetland Plants in Montana

2012

Carpenedo

Common Weeds of the US

1971

USDA

Desert Wildflowers of North America

1998

Taylor

Ecological Restoration 

2021

Galatowitsch

Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West

1997

Tilford

Edible and Useful Wild Plants of the US and Canada

1976

Sonders

Edible Native Plants of the Rocky Mountains

1967

Harrington

Encyclopedia of Northwest Native Plants for Gardens and Landscapes

2008

Filbert and others

Ferns to Know and Grow

1971

Foster

Field Guide for the Identification and Use of Common Riparian Woody Plants of the Intermountain West and Pacific Northwest Regions

2008

Hoag

Field Guide to Alaskan Wildflowers Commonly Seen Along the Highways and Byways

1990

Pratt

Field Guide to Edible Useful Wild Plants of North America

1965

Chase

Field Guide to Forest Plants of Northern Idaho

1985

Patterson

Field Guide to North America Edible Wild Plants

2009

Elias and Dykeman

Field Guide to Riparian Plant Communities in Northwestern Oregon

2005

McCain

Field Guide to Shrubs of Southwestern Oregon

2007

Bennett

Field Guide to the Grasses and Rushes of the US

1977

Knobel

Field Guide to the Grasses of Oregon and Washington

2019

Roche and others

Field Guide to the Sedges of the Pacific Northwest

2014

Wilson

Field Guide to Trees of North America

2008

Kershner and others

Flora Dictionary of Common Plant Names

2003

Firefly Books

Flora of Oregon Volume 1: Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Monocots

2015

Meyers and others

Flora of Oregon Volume 2: Dicots A-F

2020

Meyers and others

Flora of Southeastern Washington

1963

St. John

Flora of the Marshes of California

1969

Mason

Flowering Plants and Ferns of Mount Rainier

1938

Jones 

Forest Wildflowers: Showy Wildflowers of the Woods, Mountains and Forests of the Northern Rocky Mountain States

1988

Strickler

Garden Insects of North America 2nd ed. 

2017

Cranshaw

Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest

2019

Kruckeberg

Gardening with Native Wildflowers

1990

Jones and Foote

Gardening with Oregon Native Plants West of the Cascades

2008

McMahan

Grass Identification Guide

2014

Environmental Services City of Portland

Grasses: an Identification Guide

1992

Brown

Great Natives for Tough Places

2009

Dunne

Greenhouse Operation and Management

2011

Nelson

Grow Wild!: Low-Maintenance, Sure-Success, Distinctive Gardening with Native Plants

1997

Johnson

Grow Your Own Native Landscape: A Guide to Identifying, Propagating & Landscaping with Western Washington Native Plants

2005

Leigh

Growing and Propagating Showy Native Woody Plants

1992

Bir

Growing California Native Plants

1980

Schmidt

Guide to Flowering Plant Families

1993

Zomlefer

Guide to Growing and Propagating Wildflowers in the United States and Canada

2000

Cullina

Handbook of Northwestern Plants

2001

Gilkey

Hartmann and Kester's Plant Propagation: Principles and Practices

2017

Davies

Hortus Third

1976

Bailey and Bailey

How to Grow Native Plants of Texas and the Southwest

1986

Nokes

How to Identify Flowering Plant Families: A practical Guide for horticulturists and Plant Lovers

1997

Baumgardt

How to Identify Grasses and Grasslike Plants

1977

Harrington

How to Identify Plants

1957

Harrington

How to Know the Aquatic Plants

1980

Prescott

How to Know the Ferns

1974

Parsons

How to Know the Grasses

1954

Pohl

How to Know the Lichens 2nd ed. 

1979

Hale

How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts

1979

Conard and Redfearn

Idaho Mountain Wildflowers: A Photographic Compendium 3rd ed.

2012

Earle

Illustrated Field Guide to Selected Rare Plants of Northern California

2001

Nakamura and others

Illustrated Taxonomy Manual of Weed Seeds

1970

Delorit

Inland Northwest and Southern Interior British Columbia

2018

Parish and others

Insects that feed on Trees and Shrubs

1991

Johnson and Lyon

Invasive Plants of Asian Origin Established in the United S and Their Natural Enemies

2004

USDA

Invasive Species in the Pacific Northwest

2006

Boersma and others

Key to Common Vascular Plants of Western WA

n.d.

Taylor

Know It and Grow It III: A Guide to the Identification and use of Landscape Plants

1985

Whitcomb

Land above the trees: A Guide to American Alpine Tundra

1996

Zwinger and Willard

Landscaping for Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest

1999

Link

Landscaping with Wildflowers

1993

Wilson

Lewis Clark's Field Guide to Wild Flowers of the Sea Coast in the Pacific Northwest

2004

Clark

Managing Alternative Pollinators

2010

Mader and others

Manual of Cultivated Conifers

1983

Krüssmann

Manual of Grasses

2003

Darke and Griffiths

Manual of Grasses for North America

2007

Barkworth and others

Manual of Orchids

2005

Stewart and Griffiths

Manual of Oregon Trees and Shrubs

1981

Randall

Manual of Pacific Coast Trees

1967

McMinn and others

Manual of the Grasses of the US - Volume 1

1971

Hitchcock

Manual of the Grasses of the US - Volume 2

1971

Hitchcock

Manual of Woody Landscape Plants

1990

Dirr

Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West

2003

Moore

Montana Species in the Class Dicots (Dicotyledoneae)

2018

Montana Natural Heritage Program 

Montana Species in the Class Monocots (Monocotyledoneae)

2018

Montana Natural Heritage Program 

Montana Species in the Class Spike-mosses - Quillworts (Isoetopsida)

2018

Montana Natural Heritage Program 

Montana Species in the Class True Ferns (Filicopsida)

2018

Montana Natural Heritage Program 

Montana Species in the Division Liverworts (Hepatophyta)

2018

Montana Natural Heritage Program 

Montana Species in the Division Mosses (Bryophyta)

2018

Montana Natural Heritage Program 

Montana Species in the Family Cedars - Juniper (Cupressaceae)

2018

Montana Natural Heritage Program 

Montana Species in the Family Club-moss (Lycopod) Family(Lycopodiaceae)

2018

Montana Natural Heritage Program 

Montana Species in the Family Fir / Hemlock / Larch / Pine / Spruce(Pinaceae)

2018

Montana Natural Heritage Program 

Montana Species in the Family Grasses (Poaceae)

2018

Montana Natural Heritage Program 

Montana Species in the Family Horsetails (Equisetaceae)

2018

Montana Natural Heritage Program 

More Turfgrass and Related Weeds: Beyond the Color Atlas

2011

McCarty and Hall

Moss Gardening Including Lichens, Liverworts and Other Miniatures

1997

Schenk

Mountain Plants of the Pacific Northwest

1995

Taylor and Douglas

Mountain Wildflowers 57 Common Species in the Cascades and Olympics

n.d.

Washington Trails Association

National Audubon Society Field guide to the Rocky Mountain States

1999

Alden

National Audubon Society Nature Guides: Pacific Coast

1985

McConnaughey and McConnaughey

National Audubon Society Nature Guides: Western Forest

1980

Little

Native Plants for Southwestern Landscapes

1994

Mielke

Native Plants in the Coastal Garden: A Guide for Gardeners in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest

2002

Pettinger and Costanzo

Native Trees for Urban and Rural America

1988

Hightshoe

Native Trees of Western Washington

2014

Zobrist

Native Trees, Shrubs and vines: A Guide to Using, Growing, and Propagating North American Woody Plants

2008

Cullina

Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington

1988

Franklin and Dyrness

Naturescaping: A Landscaping Partnership with Nature 3rd ed.

2001

Weston

Nonnative Invasive Plants of Pacific Coast Forests A Field Guide for Identification

2011

Gray

North American Range Plants 4th ed.

1992

Stubbedieck and others

Northern Rocky Mountains Wildflowers

2012

Phillips

Northwest Ethnobotany Field Guide

2011

Bonady

Northwest Penstemons

1997

Strickler and Morley

Oaks of North America

1984

Miller and Lamb

Pacific Coast Foraging Guide: 40 Wild Foods From Beach, Field, and Forest

2010

Hahn

Pacific Northwest Wildflowers: A Guide to Common Wildflowers of Washington, Oregon, Northern California, Western Idaho, Southeast Alaska, and British Columbia

2006

Fagan

Pacific Seaweeds

1978

Scagel

Pacific States Wildflowers

1998

Niehaus and others

Photographic Atlas of Botany and Guide to Plant Identification

2005

Castner

Plant Families How to Know Them

1948

Jaques

Plant Form: An Illustrated Guide to Flowering Plant Morphology

2017

Bell

Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossary

2001

Harris

Plant Systematics  A Phylogenetic Approach 4th ed.

2015

Judd and others

Plant Systematics 3rd ed. 

2019

Simpson

Plant Tissue Culture, Development, and Biotechnology

2017

Trigiano

Plants of the Oregon Coastal Dunes

1999

Wideman

Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast

2004

Pojar and MacKinnon

Plants of the Waterton-Glacier National Parks and the Northern Rockies

1981

Shaw and On

Plants of Western Washington and British Columbia

2005

Kozloff

Plants of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

2001

Shaw

Pondweeds and Bur-reeds, and the Relatives of British Columbia

2001

Brayshaw

Preventing Phytophthora Infestations in Restoration Nurseries

2022

Kline

Principles of Ecology in Plant Production 2nd ed.

2010

Sinclair and Weiss

Propagation of Pacific Northwest Native Plants

1998

Rose

Rare Plants of Southwest Oregon 2nd Edition

2018

Mullens

Real Gardens Grow Natives: Design, Plant, & Enjoy a Healthy Northwest Garden.

2014

Stark

Restoring the Pacific Northwest: The Art and Science of Ecological Restoration in Cascadia

2006

Apostol and Sinclair

Roadside Wildflowers of the Northwest

1999

Underhill

Rocky Mountain Wildflowers

1974

Craighead and others

Rocky Mountain Wildflowers 2nd ed.

2018

Borneman

Royal Horticultural Society Pruning and Training

2017

Brickell and Joyce

Sagebrush Country: A wildflower Sanctuary

1992

Taylor

Seed Identification Manual

1961

Martin and Barkley

Seed Propagation of Native California Plants

1988

Emery

Seed to Seed Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners 2nd ed.

2002

Ashworth and others

Seedling Identification Guide for Columbia Basin Shrub-Steppe and Grassland Restoration Projects

2011

Tveten

Seeds of Woody Plants in the United States

1974

USDA

Seeds: Ecology, Biogeography, and Evolution of Dormancy and Germination

2014

Baskin and Baskin 

Selected Weeds of the US

1970

USDA

Shore Wildflowers of California, Oregon and Washington Revised Edition

2003

Munz

Shrubs to Know in Pacific Northwest Forests

2022

Jensen

Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States

1965

USDA

Special Status Plants of Klamath County

2004

Caljone and Rabe

Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners

2002

Stearn

Sustainable Horticulture Today and Tomorrow

2004

Poincelot

The Alaska-Yukon Wild Flowers Guide

1974

White and others

The Botany Coloring Book

1982

Young and Giuffre

The Complete Guide to Pruning Trees and Bushes Everything you Need to Know Explained Simply

2011

Morgan

The Complete Trees of North America A field Guide and Natural History

2000

Elias

The Field Guide to Weeds

2004

Crockett

The Garden Succulents Primer: How to Identify and Grow The Most Draught-Tolerant Plants

2008

Smith and van Wyk

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cacti & Other Succulents

1992

Riha and Subik

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Cacti: Over 1200 Species Illustrated and Identified

2001

Innes and Glass

The Illustrated Guide to Cacti

1992

Slaba

The Jepson Manual 2nd Edition

2012

Baldwin and others 

The Kew Plant Glossary: An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms 2nd ed.

2016

Beentje

The McDonald Encyclopedia of Cacti

1991

Pizzetti

The Native Cacti of California

1969

Benson

The Native Plant Primer: Trees, Shrubs, and Wildflowers for Natural Gardens

1995

Ottesen

The Northwest Coast: A Natural History

2011

Schultz

The Pronouncing Dictionary of Plant Names

2006

American Nurseryman

The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation

2006

Dirr and Heuser

The Savage Garden Revised: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants

2013

D'Amato

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques 3rd ed.

2017

DiSabato-Aust

The Wild Lawn Handbook

1995

Daniels

The Wildflowers Gardeners Guide: Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountain and Western Canada Edition

1990

Art and others

The World Encyclopedia of Cacti and Succulents

1999

Anderson

Trees and Shrubs of British Columbia

1996

Brayshaw

Trees and Shrubs of the Pacific Northwest

2014

Turner

Trees and Shrubs of Washington

1999

Lyons

Trees of Greater Portland New Edition

2013

Reynolds

Trees of Idaho

n.d.

USDA Forest Service

Trees of Washington

1971

Mosher

Trees to Know in Oregon

1999

Jensen

Trees, Shrubs, and Flowers to know in Washington and British Columbia

1996

Lyons and Merilees

Vascular Plant Families

1977

Smith

Vegetative Key to Common Grasses of Western Washington

2010

Hill

Washington Wildflowers

1974

Larrison

Waterlilies and Other Aquatic Plants

1989

Perry

Wayside Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest

1993

Strickler

Weeds in Winter

1976

Brown

Weeds of California

1951

Robbins

Weeds of North America

2014

Dickinson

Weeds of the Northern US and Canada

1999

Royer and Dickinson

Weeds of the United States and Their Control

1987

Lorenzi and Jeffery

Weeds of the West

2006

Whitson

Western Edible Wild Plants

1977

Harrington

Western Forests

1985

Whitney

Western Garden Book

2007

Sunset Books

Western Trees

1992

Petrides

Western Trees

1998

Stuckey

Wetland Plants of Oregon and Washington

2010

Guard

Wild Berries of the West

2001

Derig

Wild Berries of Washington and Oregon

2014

Lloyd and Chambers

Wild Orchids of the Pacific Northwest and Canadian Rockies

2006

Brown 

Wildflowers 2: Sagebursh Country

1974

Taylor and Valum

Wildflowers of Denali National Park and Interior Alaska

1993

Pratt

Wildflowers of Mount Rainier

2000

Blackwell

Wildflowers of Oregon

2019

Fagan

Wildflowers of Santa Monica Mountains

1996

McAuley

Wildflowers of the Columbia Gorge: A comprehensive Field Guide

1988

Jolley

Wildflowers of the Inland Northwest

1999

Faust

Wildflowers of the Olympics and Cascades

1994

Stewart

Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest

2006

Turner

Wildflowers of the Western Cascades

2005

Ross and Chambers

Wildflowers of Washington

1999

Lyons

Wildflowers of Western America

1974

Orr