Appendices & Glossary - Botanical Research Institute of Texas

APPENDIX FOURTEEN
BOOKS FOR THE STUDY OF TEXAS NATIVE PLANTS
MODIFIED FROM A LIST PROVIDED BY THE NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY OF TEXAS
P.O. BOX 3017, FREDERICKSBURG, TX 78624
830/997-9272
E-MAIL: coordinator@npsot.org
MANY OF THE BOOKS LISTED CAN BE PURCHASED FROM THE NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY OF TEXAS
SOURCES OF GENERAL BOTANICAL INFORMATION
HEYWOOD, V.H., ed. 1993. Flowering plants of the world. Oxford Univ. Press, New York. [concise information about
families of flowering plants; beautifully illustrated]
HICKEY, M. and C. KING. 1997. Common families of flowering plants. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, England,
U.K. [information on the more common flowering plant families]
HYAM, R. and R. PANKHURST. 1995. Plants and their names: A concise dictionary. Oxford Univ. Press, New York. [source
for plant name derivations]
KARTESZ, J.T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland, 2nd
ed. (2 vols.). Timber Press, Portland, OR. [scientific nomenclature of all native and naturalized vascular plants of
North America north of Mexico]
KARTESZ, J.T. and C.A. MEACHAM. 1999. Synthesis of the North American flora, version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical
Garden, Chapel Hill, NC.
MABBERLEY, D.J. 1997. The plant book, a portable dictionary of the higher plants, 2nd ed. Cambridge Univ. Press,
Cambridge, England, U.K. [excellent source of plant information worldwide at the family and genus level]
WALTERS, D.R. and D.J. KEIL. 1996. Vascular plant taxonomy, 4th ed. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, IA. [a
standard text on plant taxonomy/systematics]
WOODLAND, D.W. 1997. Contemporary plant systematics, 2nd ed. Andrews Univ. Press, Berrien Springs, MI. [a standard
text on plant taxonomy/systematics, with CD-ROM]
ZOMLEFER, W.B. 1994. Guide to flowering plant families. Univ. of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. [concise information
about families of flowering plants; beautifully illustrated]
FLORAS AND MANUALS
BURLAGE, H.M. 1973. The wild flowering plants of Highland Lakes country of Texas. Published by the author, Austin,
TX.
CORRELL, D.S. 1956. Ferns and fern allies of Texas. Texas Research Foundation, Renner.
CORRELL, D.S. and H.B. CORRELL. 1972. Aquatic and wetland plants of southwestern United States. U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
CORRELL, D.S. and M.C. JOHNSON. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. Texas Research Foundation, Renner.
CORY, V.L. and H.B. PARKS. 1937. Catalogue of the flora of the state of Texas. Texas Agric. Exp. Sta. Bull. No. 550.
CRONQUIST, A. 1980. Asteraceae. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States 1:1–261. The Univ. of North Carolina
Press, Chapel Hill.
FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA EDITORIAL COMMITTEE, eds. 1993a. Flora of North America north of Mexico, Vol. 1, Introduction.
Oxford Univ. Press, New York.
FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA EDITORIAL COMMITTEE, eds. 1993b. Flora of North America north of Mexico, Vol. 2, Pteridophytes
and gymnosperms. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.
FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA EDITORIAL COMMITTEE, eds. 1997. Flora of North America north of Mexico, Vol. 3, Magnoliophyta:
Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.
FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA EDITORIAL COMMITTEE, eds. 2000. Flora of North America north of Mexico, Vol. 22, Magnoliophyta:
Alismatidae, Commelinidae (in part), and Zingiberidae. Oxford Univ. Press, New York.