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Humboldt State University Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University Botanical Studies Open Educational Resources and Data 4-2019 North America Floras, Manuals, & Checklist: A Bibliography James P. Smith Jr Humboldt State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/botany_jps Part of the Botany Commons Recommended Citation Smith, James P. Jr, "North America Floras, Manuals, & Checklist: A Bibliography" (2019). Botanical Studies. 4. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/botany_jps/4 This Flora of the United States and North America is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Educational Resources and Data at Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Botanical Studies by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. NORTH AMERICAN FLORAS, MANUALS, & CHECKLISTS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY Compiled by James P. Smith, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Botany Department of Biological Sciences Humboldt State University Arcata, California 18th Edition — April 2019 TABLE OF CONTENTS References By Geographic Regions 1: North America . 2 2: Greenland & Arctic . 4 3: Canada . 5 4: United States: National. 17 5: United States: Western Regional . 23 6: United States: Central Regional . 31 7: United States: Eastern Regional . 34 8: United States: States & Local Floras . 42 References By Selected Topics 9: Selected Taxonomic Groups and Families . 124 9A • Lycophytes and Ferns 9B • Gymnosperms 9C • Cacti 9D • Grasses 9E • Legumes 9F • Orchids 10: Selected Topics . 127 10A • Aquatic Plants 10B • Carnivorous Plants 10C • Flowering Trees and Shrubs 10D • Ornamentals 10E • Rare and Endangered Plants 10F • Poisonous Plants 10G • Useful Plants 10G • Weeds I N T R O D U C T I O N The purpose of this compilation is to survey North Blake, S. F. & A. C. Atwood. 1942. Geographical guide American floras, manuals, checklists, atlases, and to floras of the world. Part 1. Misc. Publ. 401. U. S. photographic guides whose primary focus is to assist Dept. of Agriculture. 336 pp. in the identification of vascular plants (lycophytes, ferns, gymnosperms, and flowering plants). I have Bowers, J. E. 1982. Local floras of the Southwest, also cited papers on the published floras of a state. 1920-1980: an annotated bibliography. Great Basin Naturalist 42: 105-112. The geographic scope of coverage is the portion of North America that lies north of Mexico, including Fish, E. 1974. Wildflowers of North America: a Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands. I have also selected, annotated bibliography of books in print. included Hawai’i, simply to provide references to all Library of the New York Bot. Garden. 34 pp. of the United States. Except where there is no more recent treatment of the vascular plants of a Frodin, D. G. 2001. Guide to the standard floras of particular area, I have generally limited this the world. Second edition. Cambridge Univ. Press. compilation to post-World War II publications. Only 1100 pp. the most recent edition is cited. With certain exceptions, such as national parks and monuments, I Gunn, C. R. 1956. An annotated list of state floras. have generally not included floras that cover areas Trans. Kentucky Acad. Sci. 17(2): 114-120. smaller than a county, parish, or a mountain range. Jones, S. B., Jr. & A. E. Luchsinger. 1986. Selected My coverage is no doubt uneven. I know more about literature for the identification of vascular plants in the floras of areas that are of interest to me and North America north of Mexico. In, Plant about those portions of the country where my systematics. Second edition. McGraw-Hill. Pp. 459- botanical excursions have taken me. 474. I recognize three levels of coverage, as illustrated in McLaughlin, S. P. 2007. Tundra to tropics: the the following example. A reference on the plants of floristic plant geography of North America. Sida, North America will be cited under "North America;" Bot. Misc. 30: 1-58. one on the plants of the southwestern United States appears under "United States: Western Regional New York Botanical Garden. Index to American Floras;" a reference on the wild flowers of Arizona botanical literature. http://sweetgum.nybg.org/iabl appears in Section 8 under "Arizona." Olwell, P. 1992. 1992 plant conservation directory. Within the continental United States, the Center for Plant Conservation. Missouri Bot. Gard. designations “western,” “central,” and “eastern” are 103 pp. more or less equivalent to dividing the country into three vertical slices. Paulson, A. (editor). 1989. The National Wildflower Research Center's wildflower handbook. Texas Monthly Press. 337 pp. BIBLIOGRAPHY Scott, J. D. 2001. List of state fern floras. Hardy This compilation is based upon a number of sources, Fern Found. Qtr. 11(2): 28-37. including bookstores, book reviews in journals, catalogues, frequent visits to libraries, and various Shetler, E. R. 1965. Floras of the United States, websites. Amazon books was especially useful. Canada, and Greenland. Smithsonian Inst. 10 pp. The following sources were also very helpful: Woodland, D. W. 1997. Appendix II: floras of the world. In, Contemporary plant systematics. Second Blake, S. F. 1954. Guide to popular floras of the edition. Andrews Univ. Press. Pp. 541-560. United States and Alaska. Bibliographical Bull. No. 23. U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 56 pp. -1- 1 — N O R T H A M E R I C A Albee, L. R. (compiler). 1971. National list of Magnoliophyta: Liliidae: Liliales and Orchidales. scientific plant names. U. S. Department of Oxford Univ. Press. 723 pp. Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service. 281 pp. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2003. Barker, J. 2004. The encyclopedia of North Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 4. American wildflowers. Paragon Publ. 384 pp. Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae, part 1. Oxford Univ. Press. 559 pp. Barnard, E. S. & S. F. Yates (editors). 1998. North American wildlife: wildflowers. Readers Digest Assoc. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2003. 468 pp. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 25. Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Poaceae, part Brandenburg, D. M. 2010. Field guide to wildflowers 2. Oxford Univ. Press. 783 pp. of North America. National Wildlife Federation. Sterling Publ. Co. 673 pp. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2005. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 5. Checklist of the vascular flora of North America: Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae, part 2. Oxford Univ. www.csdl.tamu.edu/flora/tamuherb.html Press. 656 pp. Courtenay, B. & J. H. Zimmerman. 1972. Wildflowers Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2006. and weeds. Van Nostrand Reinhold. 144 pp. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 19. Magnoliophyta: Asteridae (in part): Asteraceae, part Cullen, J. 2006. Practical plant identification: 1. Oxford Univ. Press. 579 pp. including a key to native and cultivated flowering plants in north temperate regions. Cambridge Univ. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2006. Press. 357 pp. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 20. Magnoliophyta: Asteridae (in part): Asteraceae, part Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 1994. 2. Oxford Univ. Press. 666 pp. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 1. Introduction. Oxford Univ. Press. 372 pp. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 21. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 1994. Magnoliophyta: Asteridae (in part): Asteraceae, part Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 2. 3. Oxford Univ. Press. 616 pp. Pteridophytes and gymnosperms. Oxford Univ. Press. 475 pp. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2007. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 24. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 1997. Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Poaceae, part Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 3. 1. Oxford Univ. Press. 908 pp. Magnoliophyta: Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae. Oxford Univ. Press. 590 pp. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2009. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 8. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2000. Magnoliophyta: Paeoniaceae to Ericaceae. Oxford Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 22. Univ. Press. 585 pp. Magnoliophyta: Alistmatidae, Arecidae, Commelinidae (in part), and Zingiberidae. Oxford Univ. Press. 352 Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2010. pp. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 7. Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2002. Univ. Press. 797 pp. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 23. Magnoliophyta: Commelinidae (in part): Cyperaceae. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2014. Oxford Univ. Press. 608 pp. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 9. Magnol-iophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2002. Univ. Press. 713 pp. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 26. -2- Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2015. Shetler, S. G. & H. R. Meadow (editors). 1972. A Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 6. provisional checklist of species for Flora North Magnol-iophyta: Cucurbitaceae to Droseraceae. America. Flora North America Report 64. Missouri Oxford Univ. Press. 468 pp. Bot. Gard. 648 pp. Flora of North America Editorial Committee. 2016. Shetler, S. G. & L. E. Skog. 1978. A provisional Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 12. checklist of species for Flora North America. Magnol-iophyta: Vitaceae to Garryaceae. Oxford Revised. Monographs Syst. Bot. 1. Missouri Bot. Gard. Univ. Press. 603 pp. 199 pp. Forey, P. 1991. Wild flowers of North America. Shetler, S. G. et al. 1968. Preliminary generic taxon Dragonsworld. 256 pp. catalog of vascular plants for Flora North America. Flora North America Report 8. 69 pp. House, H. D. 1961. Wild flowers. Macmillan Co. 362 pp. Stubbendieck, J., S. L. Hatch, & N. Bryan. 2011. North American wildland plants: a field guide. Second Kartesz, J. T. & C. A. Meacham. 1999. Synthesis of edition. Univ. Nebraska Press. 496 pp.
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