Mark Turner and Phyllis Gustafson’s book Wildflowers of the
Pacific Northwest is a superb field guide and website well suited for
beginner and enjoyed by seasoned botanists.
It has the best browsing functions of any website we have seen allowing
you to browse thumbnailed images by flower color, flower type, as well as plant
families. Plant accounts include plant
descriptions, excellent range maps, and superb photographs.
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Plants of the Pacific Northwest
Coast popularly called “Pojar and Mackinnon” (the
editors) is perhaps the best plant field guide on the market, authored by
leading scholars of botany, ecology, lichenology, and ethnobotany it is used by
novices and experts alike. This book
boasts nearly comprehensive coverage of native plants (with limited coverage of
introduced species). Plant accounts
include photographs, range maps, distinguishing characteristics, related
species, and ethnobotanical gems.
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Flora of the Pacific Northwest by Hitchcock and Cronquist is the classic authority for our
region. Condensed from their exhaustive
5 volume set Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest, this single
volume brick provides keys and limited illustrations of our flora. The 40 years since it was published have done
little to alter the usefulness of this book to serious botanists.
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