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New
Jersey Field
Botany-Annotated Bibliography & Information Sources
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Compiled
by Karl Anderson
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WildflowersNewcomb,
L. Newcomb's
Wildflower Guide. Little,
Brown, and Company, Boston 1977. Includes about 1400 species, arranged
by gross flower structure, plant type (shrub, vine, forb), branching
pattern, and leaf characteristics, which incidentally makes it possible
to identify some plants that are not in bloom. Illustrated with line
drawings.
Peterson,
R., and M.
McKenny. A
Field
Guide to
Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North America.
Houghton-Mifflin Co., Boston, 1968. Includes about 1300 species,
arranged by flower color. Also includes descriptions of some major
plant families. Easy to use if the plant you want to identify is in
bloom. Illustrated with line drawings and a few color paintings.
Grasses
Brown, L. Grasses-An
Identification Guide. Houghton-Mifflin
Co., Boston, 1979. A non-technical introduction to this large and
somewhat difficult group. Includes 135 common grasses and grasslike
plants of the northeastern United States. Identification is generally
by overall structure, shape, and size of plants rather than fine
details of flower structure. Illustrated with line drawings.
Hitchcock,
A. Manual
of the
Grasses of the United States-2nd Edition, Vols. 1-2. Dover
Publications, New York, 1971; a reprint of a book published in 1950 by
the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Somewhat dated, and highly
technical, but well illustrated and complete. This is the classic text
for identification of grasses.
Trees
and Shrubs
Little, E. The
Audubon
Society Field Guide to Eastern Trees. Knopf,
New York, 1980. This book identifies 364 native and naturalized trees
of eastern North America, north of subtropical Florida. Illustrated
with photographs of leaves and bark for all species, with additional
photographs of flowers, fruit, and autumn foliage for some species.
Petrides,
G. A
Field Guide to
Trees and Shrubs of Northeastern and North-central United States and
Southeastern and South-centrall Houghton-Mifflin,
Co., Boston 1958. Not a particularly "pretty" book, and not
particularly easy to use, but quite complete; includes almost every
native or naturalized woody plant, from sub-shrubs to trees, within its
range. Illustrated with line drawings.
Ferns
and Fern Allies
Montgomery, J. and D. Fairbrothers. New Jersey Ferns
and Fern-Allies. Rutgers
University Press, New Brunswick, 1992. Somewhat technical but well
illustrated with line drawings, and worth owning if you have a special
interest in ferns. Nomenclature does not quite agree with Flora of North
America.Wherry,
E. The
Fern
Guide-Northeastern and Midland United States and Adjacent Canada.
Dover Publications, New York, 1995; a reprint of a book published in
1961 by Doubleday and Co. Somewhat dated, but the nomenclature is
actually more up-to-date than most fern guides, and the pictures and
descriptions are excellent.
Other
Books:
Britton, N. and A. Brown. An Illustrated
Flora of the Northern United States and Canada, Vols. 1-3.
Dover Publications, New York, 1970; a reprint of a book published in
1913 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Nomenclature very out of date. Highly
technical, but inexpensive and completely illustrated.
Collins,
B. and Karl
Anderson. Plant
Communities
of New Jersey. Rutgers
University Press, New Brunswick, 1994. A non-technical overview of some
of the major plant communities of the state, with lists of some typical
species for each; plus background information about New Jersey.
Gleason,
H. and A.
Cronquist. Manual
of
the
Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada-2nd
edition. New York Botanical
Garden, 1991. Technical, not illustrated, and already somewhat
out-of-date, but the most recent manual to cover the entire flora of
our area.
Holmgren,
N. The
Illustrated
Companion to Gleason and Cronquist's Manual.
New York Botanical Garden. 1998. This oversized volume has good
illustrations (but no text) for all the species iin Gleason and
Cronquist's manual.
Flora
of North
America
Editorial Committee. Flora
of North
America North of Mexico.
Oxford University Press. Six volumes of this projected 26 volume work
have been published to date. Some of the major groups covered so far
include ferns, orchids, sedges, lilies, aroids, rushes, and conifers.
Technical and comprehensive.
Web
Sites:
USDA
National Plants
Database. <http://plants.usda.gov/>
has range maps, current nomenclature (English and scientific),
synonymy, and much other iinformation about all U.S. plants, native and
introduced.
New
Jersey Natural
Heritage Program: <http://www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests/natural/heritage/rarelist.html>.
Has lists of threatened and endangered species (plants and animals),
ecological community lists, information on the Natural Heritage program.
Local
Organizations:
Philadelphia Botanical Club. <http://www.acnatsci.org/hosted/botany_club/>
Torrey Botanical Society. <http://www.torreybotanical.org/>
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