1. Textbooks
2. MN General ID
3. MN - Wildflowers
4. MN - Trees
5. CSB/SJU Media
6. Societies

• Airy-Shaw, H. K. 1978.  Willis' Dictionary of Flowering Plants and Ferns. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
• Allkin, R. and F. A. Bisby. 1984. Databases in Systematics. Academic Press, NY.
• Baumgardt, J.P. 1982. How to Identify Flowering Plant Families. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
• Benson, L. 1953. Plant Classification. DC Heath, Lexington, MA.
• Cronquist, A. 1988. Evolution and Classification of Flowering Plants. New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx, NY.
• Crisci, JV, JD McInerney, P McWelty.  1993.  Order & Diversity in the Living World:  Teaching Taxonomy and Systematics in Schools.  National Association of Biology Teachers, Reston, VA.
• Cronquist, A. 1992. An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants. Columbia Univ Press, NY.
• Cullen, J. 2006.  Practical Plant Identification:  Including a Key to Native and Cultivated Flowering Plant Families in North Temperate Regions.  Cambridge University Press, NY.
• Davis, P. H. and J. Cullen. 1989. The Identification of Flowering Plant Families. Third Edition. Cambridge Univ. Press.
• Davis, P. and V. Heywood. 1973. Principles of Angiosperm Taxonomy. Robert Krieger Publ. Co., NY.
• Harrington, H. D. and L. W. Durrell. How to Identify Plants. Swallow Press, Chicago.
• Harris, J and M. W. Harris. Plant Identification Terminology. Spring Lake Publishers, Payson, UT
• Heywood, V. (ed). 1993. Flowering Plants of the World. Oxford Univ. Pres, Oxford.
• Heywood, V. H. and D. M. Moore. 1984. Current Concepts in Plant Taxonomy. Academic Press, NY.
• Hickey, M. and C. J. King. 1988. 100 Families of Flowering Plants. 2nd edn. Cambridge Univ. Press, NY.
• Hillis, DM, C Moritz, BK Mable, eds. 1996. Molecular Systematics. Sinauer, MA.
• Holmes, Sandra. 1983. Outline of Plant Classification. Longman, London.
• Jones, Samuel B. and A. E. Luchsinger. 1986. Plant Systematics. 2nd edn. McGraw-Hill, NY.
• Judd, WS, CC Campbell, EA Kellogg, PF Stevens.  1999.  Plant Systematics.  Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
• Kramer, K.U. and P.S.Green. 1990. Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms. Vol. 1. Springer, NY.
• Kubitzki, K., V. Bittrich, and J.G.Rohwer. 1990. Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Dicotyledons, Magnolid, Hamamelid and Carophyllid Families. Vol. 2. Springer, NY.
• Jeffry, C. 1982. An Introduction to Plant Taxonomy. Cambridge Univ. Press, NY.
• Lawrence, G.H.M. 1951. Taxonomy of Vascular Plants. Macmillan Co., NY.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1987. The Plant Book. Cambridge Univ. Press, NY.
• Pankhurst, Richard J. 1992. Practical Taxonomic Computing.
• Porter, C. L. 1967. Taxonomy of Flowering Plants. W.H. Freeman & Co., San Francisco.
• Radford, AE et al. 1974. Vascular Plant Systematics. Harper & Row, NY.
• Radford, A. E. 1986. Fundamentals of Plant Systematics. Harper & Row, NY.
• Smith, J. 1977.  Vascular Plant Families. Mad River Press, CA.
• Stace, C. A.1989. Plant Taxonomy and Biosystematics. 2nd ed. Edward Arnold, London.
• Stevens, Peter F. 1994. The Development of Biological Systematics. Columbia Univ. Press, NY.
• Stuessy, Tod F. 1990. Plant Taxonomy. Columbia Univ. Press, NY.
• Stuessy, Tod F. 1994. Case Studies in Plant Taxonomy. Columbia University Press, NY.
• Walters, D. R. and D. J. Keil. 1995. Vascular Plant Taxonomy. 4th ed. Kendall/Hunt Publishing, Dubuque, IA.
• Wood, Jr. Carroll. 1973. A Student's Atlas of Flowering Plants: Some Dicotyledons of Eastern North America. Harper & Row, Inc.
• Woodland, D. W. 1999. Contemporary Plant Systematics. 3rd ed. Andrews Univ Press, Berrien Springs, MI.
• Zomlefer, W. B. 1994. Guide to Flowering Plant Families. Univ. of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.

2. Minnesota - General Identification: (menu)

• MN DNR Listing of Publications (a few are listed below)
  • Minnesota's Native Vegetation: A Key to Natural Communities
  • Minnesota's Native Plants, Selected Books
  • Minnesota Natural History, Selected Books
  • Minnesota's List of Natural Communities
  • Minnesota's List of Endangered, Threatened, and Special Concern Species
  • Minnesota Dwarf Trout Lily, an Endangered Minnesota Wildflower
  • Natural Heritage, Northern Tallgrass Prairie. Foldout brochure
  • Natural Vegetation of Minnesota at the Time of the Public Land Survey 1847-1907, Biological Report Number 1.
  • Minnesota's Bearing Tree Database
  • Preserving Wild Ginseng in Minnesota
  • Leedy's Roseroot, a Cliffside Glacial Relict
  • Orchids of Minnesota
  • Prairie Bush Clover
  • Western Prairie Fringed Orchid, a Threatened Midwestern Prairie Plant
• Field Guide to the Native Plant Communities of Minnesota - The Laurentian Mixed Forest, The Eastern Broadleaf Forest, and The Prairie Parkland and Tallgrass Aspen Parklands Provinces.  All three available from www.minnesotabookstore.com.  For more info, visit the DNR plant publications website.
• Cofell, Lorraine Westrup. 1977.  A Study of the Vegetation in the Upland Forest of St. John's Abbey and University.  Collegeville, MN  84 pp.
• Coffin, B & L Pfanmuller, ed. 1988.  Minnesota's Endangered Flora and Fauna. University of MN Press, Minneapolis.
• Curtis, JT.  1974.  The Vegetation of Wisconsin.  University of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
• Department of Natural Resources. 1995. A Guide to Minnesota's Scientific and Natural Areas. Scientific and Natural Areas Program, St. Paul.
• Eggers, S. D. and D. M. Reed. 1988. Wetland Plants and Plant Communities of Minnesota and Wisconsin. US Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul.
• Fassett, Norman C. 1959. Spring Flora of Wisconsin. Univ. of Wisconsin Press, Madison.
• Fernald, M. Gray's Manual of Botany.
• Flora of North America. Oxford University Press, New York. (http://www.fna.org)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. 2nd edn. New York Botanical Garden.
• Gleason, H. C. 1968. New Britton and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern U.S. and Canada. Three Volumes. D. Van Nostrand Co., NJ.
• Great Plains Flora Association.  1986.  Flora of the Great Plains.  University Press of Kansas, Lawrence.
• Lakela, Olga. 1965. A Flora of Northeastern Minnesota. Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
• Morley, T. 1969. Spring Flora of Minnesota. Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
• Moyle, J B. 1960. Aids for Field Identification of Some Common Minnesota Plant Groups. 1960. MN Department of Natural Resources.
• Nature Conservancy, The. 1980. Prairies, Woods and Islands. A Guide to the Minnesota Preserves of the Nature Conservancy. Nature Conservancy, Minneapolis.
• Ownbey, G. and T. Morley. 1991. Vascular Plants of Minnesota: A Checklist and Atlas. Univ. of Minnesota Press.
• Rydberg, Per Axel.  1932.  Flora of the Prairies and Plains of Central North America.  The Science Press Printing Company, Lancaster.
• Stevens, O. A. 1963. Handbook of North Dakota Plants. North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies, Fargo.
• Steyermark, Julian.  1963.  Flora of Missouri.  The Iowa State University Press, Ames.
• Tester, J. R. 1995. Minnesota's Natural Heritage. An Ecological Perspective. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
• Van Bruggen, T. 1976. Vascular Plants of South Dakota. The Iowa State Univ Press, Ames.

3.  Minnesota Wildflowers (menu)

• Coffey, T. 1994. The History and Folklore of North American Wildflowers.
• Courtenay, Booth & J. H. Zimmerman. 1978. Wildflowers and Weeds. Fireside Books.
• Edsall. 1985. Roadside Plants and Flowers. Univ. of Wisconsin Press.
• Embertson and Conrader. 1979. Pods: Wildflowers and Weeds in Their Final Beauty. Charles Scribner's Sons.
• Ladd, D. 1995. Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers. The Nature Conservancy & Falcon Press, Helena, MT.
• Kirt, R. 1995. Prairie Plants of the Midwest: Identification and Ecology. Stipes, Champaign, IL.
• Magley and Dowden, 1992. Minnesota Wildflowers: A Children's Guide to the State's Most Common Flowers. Falcon Press.
• Moyle, John B. Northern Non-Woody Plants. Burgess Publishing Co., Minneapolis.
• Moyle, J. and Moyle. 1977. Northland Wild Flowers: A Guide for the Minnesota Region. Univ. of Minnesota Press.
• Newcomb, L. 1977. Newcomb's Wildflower Guide. Little, Brown and Company, NY.
• Ownbey, G. 1971. Common Wild Flowers of Minnesota. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
• Peterson, R. T. & M. McKenny. A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-central North American. Houghton Mifflin.
• Runkel and Roosa. 1989. Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest. Iowa State University Press.
• Semple, J. GS Ringuis, JJ Zhang.  1999.  The Goldenrods of Ontario.  University of Waterloo Biology Series 39: 1-90.  ($15.00 + $5.00 s&h)
• Smith, W. 1993. Orchids of Minnesota. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
• Upham, Warrren. 1884. Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota, including its phaenogamous and vascular cryptogamous plants, indigenous, naturalized, and adventive. Johnson, Smith and Harrison, Minneapolis.
• Vance, Jowsey & McLean. 1984. Wildflowers of the Northern Great Plains. Univ. of Minnesota Press.
• Wright, Jr., HE., BA Coffin & NE Aaseng, eds.  1992.  Patterned Peatlands of Minnesota. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

4. Minnesota Trees (menu)

• Clements, Frederic E., C. Otto Rosendahl, Frederic K. Butters. 1912. Minnesota Trees and Shrubs. The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
• Coombes, Allen J. 1992. Trees. Eyewitness Handbooks. Dorling Kindersley, Inc., New York.
• Dirr, M. 1978. Photographic Manual of Woody Landscape Plants. Stipes, Champaign, IL.
• Dirr, M. 1990. Manual of Woody Landscape Plants. 4th ed. Stipes, Champaign, IL.
• Dirr, M. 1997. Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs. Timber Press, Portland.
• Farrar, John Laird. 1995. Trees of the Northern United States and Canada. Iowa State University Press, Ames.
• Harlow, W. M. Fruit Key and Twig Key to Trees and Shrubs. Dover.
• Hosie, RC. 1975. Native Trees of Canada. 7th ed. Canadian Forestry Service.
• Leopold, D.J., W.C. McCombs, R.N. Miller. 1998. Trees of the Central Hardwood Forests of North America. Timber Press, Portland.
• Muenscher, W. C. 1950. Keys to Woody Plants. Comstock Publ., Ithaca, NY.
• Rathke, D.M. Minnesota trees. MN Extension Service, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
• Rosendahl, Carl O. 1955. Trees and Shrubs of the Upper Midwest. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
• Severin, Charles. 1980. A Key to the Woody Plants of Minnesota. St. Mary's College, Winona.
• Stephens, H. A. 1973. Woody Plants of the North Central Plains. The University Press of Kansas, Lawrence.
• Stidd, B. and R.D.Henry. 1995. Key to Common Woody Landscape Plants in the Midwest. Stipes Publishing, Champaign, IL.
• Symonds, George W. D. 1963. The Shrub Identification Book. William Morrow & Company, New York.
• Symonds, George W. D. 1958. The Tree Identification Book. Quill, New York.

5. Media (at CSB/SJU) (menu)

• Edible Wild Plants - video (QK 98.5.A1)
• Sexual Encounters of the Floral Kind (pollination) (QK 926.S49)
• Roadside Plants of Central Minnesota - slide set (QK 112.W4)
• Prairie Plants of Central Minnesota - slide set (QK 938.P7 W4
• Woodland Plants of Central Minnesota - slide set (QK 938.E6 W4)

6. Professional Societies (check out the web sites) (menu)

• Minnesota Native Plant Society - for those of you interested in joining a group that is focused on native plants, MNPS is for you. They meet regularly at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Bloomington, publish a quarterly newsletter, host an annual  symposium, and hold assorted field trips.
• American Society of Plant Taxonomists - publish the journal, Systematic Botany, and a newsletter.
• Natural Science Collections Alliance (formerly Association of Systematics Collections)
• Botanical Society of America