FLORIDA REFERENCES
Suggested Web-links
Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, in Florida — plant species
images and information.
http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/welcome.html
Fairchild Tropical Garden Virtual Herbarium — scanned images of
herbarium specimens and label available on line.
http://www.virtualherbarium.org/
Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council — Florida invasive plant lists
with linked information on each species.
http://www.fleppc.org/
Florida Native Plant Society
http://www.fnps.org/
Florida Natural Areas Inventory — tracking lists for plant, animal
species of concern, as well as community descriptions; has global, federal,
and state conservation status or rank for species.
http://www.fnai.org/data.cfm
Institute for Regional Conservation — covers 10 southern Florida
counties; go in and get yourself a password for the Database—that’s
what you want.
http://www.regionalconservation.org/ircs/index.cfm
Institute for Systematic Botany — covers all of Florida; has distribution
maps by county, synonymy, sources for herbarium data, citation, conservation
status, and sometimes images.
http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/
University of Florida Herbarium:
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/herbarium/
General References
Myers. R. L. & J. J. Ewel. 1990. Ecosystems of Florida.
U. Central Florida Press, Orlando, FL. 765 pp.
West, E. & L. E. Arnold. 1946. The native trees of Florida.
U. of Florida Press, Gainesville, FL. 212 pp.
Wunderlin, R.P. 1998. Guide to the vascular plants of Florida.
U. Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 806 pp.
Wunderlin, R. P. & B. F. Hansen. 2000. Flora of Florida, Vol.
1. Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms. U. Press of Florida, Gainesville,
FL. 365.
Wunderlin, R.P. and B.F. Hansen. 2003. Guide to the vascular plants
of Florida, 2nd ed. U. Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 787
pp.—the newest guide for all of Florida, with keys, common names, distributions,
flowering time and status but no descriptions or illustrations.
Regional Floras
North Florida
Clewell, A. F. 1985. Guide to the vascular plants of the Florida panhandle.
U. Presses of Florida, Tallahassee, FL. 505 pp.
Godfrey, R. K. 1988. Trees, shrubs, and woody vines of northern
Florida and adjacent Georgia and Alabama. U. of Georgia Press,
Athens, GA. 734 pp.
Central Florida
Lakela, O. & R. P. Wunderlin. 1980. Trees of central Florida.
Banyan Books, Miami, FL. 208 pp.
South Florida
Long, R. W. & O. Lakela. 1978. A flora of tropical Florida.
Banyan Books, Miami, FL. 962 pp.
Tomlinson, P. B. 2001. The biology of trees native to tropical
Florida. Published by the author, Allston, MA. 396 pp. Beautiful
botanical lines drawings and unique information on the biology of the species.
Picture Guides and Specialty Books
Alden, P., R. Cech, & G. Nelson. National Audubon Society field
guide to Florida. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY. 447 pp.
Bell, C. R. 1982. Florida wild flowers and roadside plants.
Laurel Hill Press, Chapel Hill, NC. 308 pp.
Brown, P. M. 2002. Wild orchids of Florida. U. Press
of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 409 pp.
Llamas, K. A. 2003. Tropical flowering plants. Timber
Press, Portland, OR. 423 pp.
Nelson, G. 1994. The trees of Florida. Pineapple
Press, Sarasota, FL. 338 pp.
Nelson, G. 1996. The shrubs and woody vines of Florida.
Pineapple Press, Sarasota, FL. 391 pp.
Nelson, G. 2000. The ferns of Florida. Pineapple
Press, Sarasota, FL. 208 pp.
Scurlock, J. P. 1987. Native trees and shrubs of the Florida Keys.
Laurel Press, Pittsburgh, PA. 220 pp.
Taylor, W. K. 1998. Florida wildflowers in their natural communities.
U. Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 370 pp. [Also, there is the similar book
by Taylor, “The guide to Florida Wildflowers"]
Tobe, J.D. et al. (eds.). 1998. Florida wetland plants: An identification
manual. Florida Dept. of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee,
FL. 598 pp. Pictures, line drawings, distribution maps as the scale of ¼
of the state.
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