Plant Biology 304

Elements of Plant Systematics


Supplemental References at Morris Library

General Taxonomic References

Benson, L. 1959. Plant Classification. Heath Publ. 688 pp.
Cronquist, A. 1981. An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants. Columbia Univ. Press, NY. 1262 pp.
Cronquist, A. 1988. The evolution and classification of flowering plants. New York Botanical Gardens, New York, NY. 555 pp.
*Heywood, V. H. 1978. Flowering Plants of the World. Mayflower Books, New York, NY. 336 pp.
Jones, S. B. and A. E. Luchsinger. 1986. Plant Systematics. Second Edition. McGraw-Hill Book Company. 512 pp.
Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The Plant-Book, Second Edition. Cambridge Univ. Press. 858 pp.
Radford, A. E., et al. 1981. Vascular Plant Systematics. Harper and Row. 891 pp.
Radford, A. E. 1986. Fundamentals of Plant Systematics. Harper & Row, New York, NY.
Takhtajan, A. 1997. Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants. Columbia University Press, NY. 643 pp.
Walters, D. R. and D. J. Keil. 1996. Vascular Plant Taxonomy, Fourth Edition. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa. 608 pp. + index. Used as our textbook in previous years.
 

Identification:

Bailey, L. H. 1949. Manual of Cultivated Plants. MacMillan Publ. Co., New York, NY. 1116 pp.
*Hortus Third. A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada. 1976. MacMillan Publ. Co., New York, NY. 1290 pp.
Wood, C. E. 1974. A Student Atlas of Flowering Plants: Some Dicotyledons of Eastern North America. Harper and Row.
Zomlefer, W. B. 1994. Guide to Flowering Plant Families. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC. 424 pp.
 

Floras

Deam, C. C. 1940. Flora of Indiana. Dept. Conserv., Div. Forestry, Indianapolis, IN.
*Fernald, M. L. 1970. Gray's Manual of Botany, Eighth Edition. D. Van Nostrand Co., New York. 1632 pp.
Gleason, H. A. K. 1963. The New Britton, and Brown Illustrated Flora of the Northeastern U.S. and Adjacent Canada. Facsimile edition by Hafner Pub. for New York Botanical Garden.
Gleason, H. A. and Cronquist, A. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada, Second Edition. New York Botanical Garden, N.Y. 910 pp.
Jones, G. N. 1963. Flora of Illinois. The University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana. 401 pp.
Kartesz, J. T., Kartesz, R. 1980. Synonymized Checklist of the Vascular Flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. Univ. North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1986. Guide to the Vascular Flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. 507 pp.
Mohlenbrock, R. H. 1970--x. The Illustrate Flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. Currently 12 vols. on vascular plants are finished (project is ongoing).
Mohlenbrock, R. H. and D. M. Ladd. 1978. Distribution of Illinois Vascular Plants. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Steyermark, J. 1963. Flora of Missouri. Iowa State Univ. Press, Ames, Iowa. 1728 pp.
 
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