Other Plant Systematics Textbooks
Jones, S. B. and A. E. Luchsinger. 1986. Plant Systematics. Second Edition. McGraw-Hill Book Company. 512 pp.
Radford, A. E. 1986. Fundamentals of Plant Systematics. Harper & Row, New York, NY.
Simpson, M. G. 2006. Plant Systematics. Elsevier Academic Press, New York. 590 pp.
Walters, D. R. and D. J. Keil. 2006. Vascular Plant Taxonomy, Fifth Edition. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa. 608 pp. + index. Used as our textbook in previous years.
Woodland, D. W. 2000. Contemporary Plant Systematics. Third Edition. Andrews University Press, Berrien Springs, MI. 570 pp.
General Taxonomic References
Bailey, L. H. 1949. Manual of Cultivated Plants. MacMillan Publ. Co., New York, NY. 1116 pp.
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.
Hortus Third. A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada. 1976. MacMillan Publ. Co., New York, NY. 1290 pp.
Mabberley, D. J. 2008. The Plant-Book, Third Edition. Cambridge Univ. Press. 1021 pp.
Radford, A. E., et al. 1981. Vascular Plant Systematics. Harper and Row. 891 pp.
Soltis, D. E., P. S. Soltis, P. K. Endress, and M. W. Chase. 2005. Phylogeny and Evolution of Angiosperms. Sinauer Associates Inc., Sunderland, MA.
Takhtajan, A. 1997. Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants. Columbia University Press, NY. 643 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.
Local 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. 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.
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.
Yatskievych, G. 1999. Steyermark’s Flora of Missouri. Vol. 1. The Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, MO. 991 pp.
Yatskievych, G. 2006. Steyermark’s Flora of Missouri. Vol. 2 (Acanthaceae to Fabaceae). The Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, MO.