UVM Libraries: Plant Biology: Books & Field Guides

Online Reference Books

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
Over 5,500 clear and concise entries on all aspects of botany including biochemistry, plant physiology, cytology, ecology, genetics, evolution, biogeography, earth history, and the earth sciences.
Dictionary of Biology
Biographical entries on key scientists and topics such as bioinformatics, genomics, molecular evolution, and protein structure, with further reading suggestions. Appendices include classification of the animal and plant kingdoms.
Encyclopedia of Mycology
Call Number: ONLINE

Field Guides, Guidebooks, and More

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region
Call Number: QK112 .N53 2001 (Reference AND 3rd Floor)
The Complete Trees of North America
Call Number: QK481 .E38 (Reference)
Eastern North America's Wildflowers
Call Number: QK115 .L56 1978 (3rd Floor)
A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants : Eastern and Central North America
Call Number: QK98.5 .U6 P47 (Reference AND 3rd Floor)
Peterson Field Guide to Ferns and Their Related Families : Northeastern and Central North America, 2nd ed.
Call Number: QK525 .C749 2005 (Reference)
Peterson Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America
Call Number: QK99.U6 F68 1999 (Reference)
Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of the United States
Call Number: QK495.G74 K718 1977 (Reference)
Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Field Marks of All Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines That Grow Wild in the Northeastern and North-Central United States and in Southeastern and South-Central Canada, 2nd ed.
Call Number: QK482 .P43 1972 (Reference)
Flora of North America: North of Mexico
Call Number: QK110 .F55 1993 (Reference)
Flowering Plants of the World
Call Number: QK495.A1 F58 1993 (Reference)
Gray's Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the Central and Northeastern United States and Canada, 8th. ed.
Call Number: QK117 .G75 1970 (3rd Floor)
Guide to the Genera of the Plants of Eastern North America, 3rd edition
Call Number: QK115 .B37 1984 (Reference)
How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts, 2nd ed.
Call Number: QK533.84 .N67 C66 1979 (3rd Floor)
How to Know the Weeds, 3rd ed.
Call Number: SB612.A2 W54 1979 (3rd Floor)
Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, 2nd ed.
Call Number: QK117 .G49 1991 (Reference)
Muenscher's Keys to Woody Plants: an Expanded Guide to Native and Cultivated Species
Call Number: QK115 .C69 2001 (Reference)
Newcomb's Wildflower Guide: An Ingenious New Key System for Quick, Positive Field Identification of the Wildflowers, Flowering Shrubs and Vines of Northeastern and North Central North America
Call Number: QK118 .N42 (3rd Floor)
Plant Life
Call Number: QK101 .P55 1991 (Reference)
Plant Taxonomy, 2nd ed.
Call Number: QH301 .I595 no. 5 1976 (3rd Floor)
Timber Press Dictionary of Plant Names
Call Number: QK9 .C66 1985 (Reference)