• Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide, Lawrence Newcomb (1977)

• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians, Dennis Horn & Tavia Cathcart (2013)

• Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast, Cotterman, Waitt, and Weakley (2019)

• Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, Radford, Ahles, & Bell (1968)

• Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont, Timothy Spira (2011)

• Native Orchids of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Stanley L. Bentley (2000)

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• Common Mosses of the Northeast and Appalachians, McKnight, Rohrer, Ward, & Perdrizet (2013)

• Mosses, Liverworts, and Hornworts, A Field Guide to Common Bryophytes of the Northeast, Ralph Pope (2016)

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• Lichens of North America, Brodo, Sharnoff & Sharnoff (2001)

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• The Tree Identification Book, George Symonds (1958)

• The Shrub Identification Book, George Symonds (1963)

• The Sibley Guide to Trees, David Allen Sibley (2009)

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• The Sibley Guide to Birds, David Allen Sibley (2000)

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• Amphibians and Reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia, Beane, Braswell, Mitchell, Palmer, & Harrison III (2010)

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• Butterflies of the Carolinas, Jaret Daniels (2003)

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• A Field Guide to Mushrooms of the Carolinas, Bessette, Bessette, and Hopping (2018)

• Appalachian Mushrooms, Walter Sturgeon (2018)

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