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Pacific Northwest

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A Manual of the Higher Plants of Oregon. Peck, Morton E. 1961. Binfords & Mort Publishers.

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Coastal Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest: Wildflowers and Flowering Shrubs from British Columbia to Northern California. Horn, Elizabeth L. 1994. Mountain Press Publishing Company.

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Field Guide to the Sedges of the Pacific Northwest. Wilson, Barbara, Richard Brainerd, Danna Lytjen, Bruce Newhouse and Nick Otting. 2008. Oregon State University Press.

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Flora of Mount Rainier National Park. Biek, David. 1999. Oregon State University Press.

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Flora of North America North of Mexico [online]. Flora of North America Editorial Committee, eds. 1993+. 16+ vols. New York and Oxford. Vol. 1, 1993; vol. 2, 1993; vol. 3, 1997; vol. 4, 2003; vol. 5, 2005; vol. 7, 2010; vol. 8, 2009; vol. 19, 2006; vol. 20, 2006; vol. 21, 2006; vol. 22, 2000; vol. 23, 2002; vol. 24, 2007; vol. 25, 2003; vol. 26, 2002; vol. 27, 2007. Flora of North America website.

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Flora of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Manual. Hitchcock, Leo and Arthur Cronquist. 1973. University of Washington Press.

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Food plants of interior First Peoples. Turner, N. J. 1997. UBC Press, Vancouver, British Columbia. 215 p.

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Guide to the Plants of the Wallowa Mountains of Northeastern Oregon. Mason, Georgia. 2001. University of Oregon Press.

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Handbook of Northwestern Plants. Gilkey, Helen M., La Rea Dennis and L. D. Johnston. 2001. Revised Edition. Oregon State University Press.

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Illustrated flora of British Columbia, Volumes 1-8. Douglas, G. W., G. B. Straley, D. Meidinger, and J. Pojar, eds. 1998. British Columbia Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Victoria, British Columbia. Online.

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Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest. Boyd, Robert. 1999. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. 313 p.

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Macrolichens of the Pacific Northwest. McCune, B., and L. Geiser. 2009. Second edition, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. 464 p.

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Northwest Trees. Arno, Stephen F. and Ramona P. Hammerly. 2007. Mountaineers Books.

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Oregon’s Best Wildflower Hikes, Northwest Region. Wuerthner, George. 2003. Westcliffe Publishers.

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Oregon’s Best Wildflower Hikes, Southwest Region. Horn, Elizabeth L. 2006. Westcliffe Publishers.

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Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia and the Inland Northwest. 1999. Ray Coupe, Dennis Lloyd, Roberta Parish. Lone Pine Publishing.

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Plants of the Gulf & San Juan Islands and Southern Vancouver Island. Varner, Collin. 2003. Raincoast Books.

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Plants of the Oregon Coastal Dunes. Wiedemann, Alfred M., La Rea J. Dennis and Frank H. Smith. 1999. Oregon State University Press.

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Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska. Pojar, Jim and Andy MacKinnon (Eds). 1994. Lone Pine Publishing.

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Plants of Western Oregon, Washington & British Columbia. Kozloff, Eugene. 2005. Timber Press.

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The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California. Second Edition, Thoroughly Revised and Expanded. Edited by Bruce G. Baldwin, Douglas Goldman, David J Keil, Robert Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti, Dieter Wilken. 2012. University of California Press.

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Washington’s Best Wildflower Hikes. Gurche, Charles. 2004. Westcliffe Publishers.

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Wild Flowers of Field and Slope in the Pacific Northwest. Clark, Lewis. 2002. Harbour Publishing.

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Wild Flowers of Forest & Woodland in the Pacific Northwest. Clark, Lewis. 2003. Harbour Publishing.

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Wildflowers of the Columbia River Gorge: A Comprehensive Field Guide. Jolley, Russ. 1988. Oregon Historical Press.

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Wild Flowers of the Mountains in the Pacific Northwest. Clark, Lewis. 2003. Harbour Publishing.

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Wild Flowers of the Pacific Northwest. Clark, Lewis. 1998. Third Edition. Harbour Publishing.

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Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest. Turner, Mark and Phyllis Gustafson. 2006. Timber Press.

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Wild Flowers of the Sea Coast in the Pacific Northwest. Clark, Lewis. 2004. Harbour Publishing.

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Wildflowers of the Western Cascades. Ross, Robert A., Henrietta L. Chambers and Shirley A. Stevenson. 1988. Timber Press.

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Wildflowers of Washington. Lyons, C. P. 2000. Lone Pine Publishing.

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