MISSOURI REFERENCES

Suggested Web-links

Dan Tenaglia’s Photographs of Missouri Flora
http://www.missouriplants.com

Discover Life Web Site (hosted at Univ. of GA by John Pickering, includes links for pages to photos of “all living things” and a number of pages to interactive keys in development for various groups; especially check out the page to North American Wildflowers)
http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Plantae/

Flora of Missouri Project
http://www.mobot.org/mobot/missouri

Missouri Department of Conservation (search to find pdf files of various reprints from Conservationist Magazine and also pages to images of plants, among other things)
Nature - http://www.mdc.mo.gov/nathis/
Forestry - http://www.mdc.mo.gov/forest/

Missouri Department of Conservation - Photographing wildflowers, how to & where to go
http://www.mdc.mo.gov/nathis/plantpage/wflowpho/
http://www.mdc.mo.gov/atlas/

Missouri Exotic Pest Plants page
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/mepp/welcome.shtml

Missouri Native Plant Society
http://web.missouri.edu/~umo_herb/monps

Missouri Weeds
http://www.psu.missouri.edu/fishel/field_crops.htm

Missouri Wildflower Guide
http://www.missouriwildflowerguide.com/

Ozarks Regional Herbarium (Southwest Missouri State University) with bryophyte checklists, Missouri Flora Atlas, and several different photo pages
http://biology.smsu.edu/Herbarium

General References

Nelson, P. W. 1985 [Note: 2nd ed. to be published 2005]. The Terrestrial Natural Communities of Missouri. Missouri Dept. of Natural Resources, Jefferson City, MO.

Regional Floras

Steyermark, J. A. 1963. Flora of Missouri. Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA

Yatskievych, G. 1999. Steyermark’s Flora of Missouri, revised ed., vol. 1. Missouri Dept. of Conservation, Jefferson City, MO. [Note: Volume 2 (of 3 total volumes) expected 2005].

Yatskievych, G., and J. Turner. 1990. Catalogue of the Flora of Missouri. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 37:i-xii, 1-345.

Picture Guides and Specialty Books

Denison, E. Missouri Wildflowers, 5th ed. Missouri Dept. of Conservation, Jefferson City, MO.

Hemmerley, T. E. 2002. Ozark Wildflowers. University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA.

Kurz, D. 1999. Ozark Wildflowers. Falcon Press, Helena, MT.
-----. 1997. Shrubs and Woody Vines of Missouri. Missouri Dept. of Conservation, Jefferson City, MO.
-----. 2003. Trees of Missouri. Missouri Dept. of Conservation, Jefferson City, MO.

Ladd, D. 1995 [note: 2nd ed. to be published in 2005]. Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers. Falcon Press, Helena, MT.

Summers, B. 1996. Missouri Orchids, 3rd ed. Missouri Dept. of Conservation, Jefferson City, MO.