 | Botanica North America: An Illustrated Guide to Native Plants: Their Botany, Their History, and the Way They Have Shaped Our World by Marjorie Harris
Buy new: $52.22 / Used from: $17.98 A wonderful compendium of botanical lore with great photographs.
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 | Botanica's Orchids: Over 1200 Species (Botanica's Gardening Series)
Buy new: $11.09 / Used from: $6.84 The best of the orchid guides! A real gem.
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 | The Savage Garden: Cultivating Carnivorous Plants by Peter D'Amato
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.74 A fascinating introduction to the cultivation of carnivorous plants.
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 | Cacti of Texas and Neighboring States by Del Weniger
Buy used from: $9.95 The best of the Texas and New Mexico cactus guides.
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 | Complete Trees of North America: Field Guide and Natural History by Thomas S. Elias
Buy used from: $12.97 The most complete tree guide, if a bit dated.
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 | Field Guide to the Palms of the Americas (Princeton Paperbacks) by Andrew Henderson
Buy used from: $201.83 A definitive guide to Western Hemisphere palms.
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| Bromeliads: A Descriptive Listing of the Various Genera and the Species Most Often Found in Cultivation by Victoria Padilla
Buy used from: $1.25 An old favorite and still the best book on bromeliads.
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 | Trees and Shrubs of New Mexico by Jack L. Carter
Buy used from: $75.00 A solid guide to New Mexican woody plants.
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 | The Wild Orchids of Arizona and New Mexico (Comstock books) by Ronald A. Coleman
Buy new: $42.43 / Used from: $9.44 A real gem of a book and the most complete guide to southwest orchids. Fantastic photographs!
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 | A Natural History of Western Trees by Donald Culross Peattie
Buy used from: $6.84 A bit quirky, but fascinating treatment of western trees.
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 | Native Orchids of the Eastern Caribbean (Caribbean Pocket Natural History Series) by Julian S. Kenny
Buy used from: $6.50 A neat little guide to Caribbean orchids!
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| Common trees of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (Agriculture handbook) by Elbert Luther Little
Buy used from: $42.95 The Spanish version has color plates!
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 | The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $7.55 A plant's view of domestication!
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 | Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas by Albert E. Radford
Buy new: $39.60 / Used from: $20.66 The standard botany of the Southeast
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| Tropica: Color Cyclopedia of Exotic Plants and Trees for Warm-Region Horticulture in Cool Climate the Summer Garden or Sheltered Indoors by Alfred Byrd Graf
Buy new: $146.81 / Used from: $146.80 A remarkable collection of color illustrations and short descriptions of tropical plants.
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 | Arizona Flora, Second edition by Thomas H. Kearney
Buy new: $95.00 / Used from: $35.00 The old standard for Arizona flora and one of my textbooks for systematic botany.
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| PLANT CLASSIFICATION 0669247030
Buy used from: $7.50 Another old standby and former textbook.
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 | Palms of South Florida by GEORGE B. STEVENSON
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $4.32 A solid introduction to cultivated palms.
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 | Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist by Peter Bernhardt
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $9.89 Interesting essays on remarkable plants.
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 | The Color Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grasses: Sedges, Rushes, Restios, Cat-Tails and Selected Bamboos by Rick Darke
Buy used from: $20.71 A lovely book for gardeners and botanist alike.
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 | Weeds of the West by Larry C. Burrill
Buy used from: $5.88 A good introduction to Western weeds.
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 | A Field Guide to Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs by Christopher Hobbs
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $11.92 The best guide to Western medicinal plants.
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 | Baja California Plant Field Guide by Norman Roberts
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $21.95 A must for the naturalist in Baja California!
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| Wildflowers of the Southeastern United States by Wilbur H. Duncan
Buy used from: $7.95 A book I used as a standard reference for North Florida. Not complete, but very useful!
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 | Hortus Third: A Concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada by Bailey Hortorium
Buy used from: $15.00 The classic compendium for horticultural enthusiasts.
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