Recommended Plant Identification & Reference Guides

If you would like a complimentary copy of the 60+-page, full-color "Life in NH Saltmarshes: A Quick Reference Field Guide" (prepared by the NHCP in May 2003, revised in May 2005) please contact NHCP at 559-1500

Wetlands & Wetland Plants

The Book of Swamp and Bog: Trees, Shrubs, and Wildflowers of Eastern Freshwater Wetlands

by John Eastman.

© 1995 Stackpole Books

ISBN 0-8117-2518-9

A Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States

by Ralph W. Tiner, Jr.

© 1987 University of Massachusetts Press

ISBN 0-870-23538-9

Freshwater Wetlands- A Guide to Common Indicator Plants of the Northeast

by Dennis W. Magee

© 1981 University of Massachusetts Press

ISBN 0-87023-317-3

Northeastern Wetland Flora: Field Office Guide to Plant Species

by USDA – NRCS/Northeastern National Technical Center, Chester Pennsylvania

Plants in Wetlands: A Redington Field Guide to Biological Interactions

by Charles B. Redington

© 1994 Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

ISBN 0-84038-983-3

Pond and Brook

by Michael J. Caduto

© 1990

ISBN 0-87451-509-1

Pond Life: A Golden Guide

by George K. Reid

© 1987

ISBN 0-30724-017-7

Through The Looking Glass

by Susan Borman, Robert Korth, Jo Temte

© 1997/1999 Wisconsin Lakes Partnership

ISBN 0-93231-032-X

Wetland Planting Guide for Northeast United States

by Gwendolyn A. Thunhorst

© 1993 Environmental Concern, Inc.

ISBN 1-88322-602-3

Wetlands - National Audubon Society Nature Guides

by William A. Niering

© 1985 Alfred A. Knopf, New York

ISBN 0-39473-147-6

Forests & Trees 

Eastern Forests: National Audubon Society Nature Guides

by Ann and Myron Sutton

© Alfred A. Knopf, New York

ISBN 0-39473-126-3

Forest Leaves: How to Identify Trees and Shrubs of Northern New England

by Henry Ives Baldwin

© 1982/1993 Peter E. Randall Publisher

ISBN 0-91433-943-5

Trees of the Eastern and Central United States and Canada

by William M. Harlow

© 1942/1957 Dover Publications

ISBN 0-91433-943-5

Wildflowers, Weeds, Grasses

Grasses: An Identification Guide

by Lauren Brown

© 1979 Houghton Mifflin Company

ISBN 0-395-62881-4

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers (Eastern Region)

by William A. Niering

© 1979/1995 Chanticleer Press

ISBN 0-39450-432-1

Weeds of the Northeast

by Richard H. Uva

© 1997 Cornell University

ISBN 0-80148-333-4

Misc.

Animal Tracks of New England

by Chris Stahl

© 1989 The Mountaineers

ISBN 0-89886-194-2

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States

by Janine M. Benyus.
© 1989

ISBN 0-671-65908-1

Life and Death of the Salt Marsh

by John & Mildred Teal

© 1969 Ballentine Books

ISBN 0-345-31027-6

Peterson Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants

by Lee Allen Peterson

© 1977 Houghton Mifflin Company

ISBN 0-39531-870-X