Field Guides:
Plants
- Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and Alaska by Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon
- Plants of Northern British Columbia by Andy MacKinnon, Jim Pojar, Ray Coupe
- Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia and the Inland Northwest by Roberta Parish, Ray Coupe, Dennis Lloyd
- Alpine Plants of the Northwest: Wyoming to Alaska by Jim Pojar and Andy MacKinnon
- Plants of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland by Collin Varner (2002)
- Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest by Phyllis Gustafson and Mark Turner
- Medicinal Plants of the Pacific West by Michael Moore
Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts)
- Schofield, W.B. 2002. Field Guide to the Liverwort Genera of Pacific North America. University of Washington Press.
- Schofield, W.B. 1992. Some Common Mosses of British Columbia (2nd ed). Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria
Fungi
- Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest by Steve Trudell and Joe Ammirati
- All That the Rain Promises and More…: A Hip Pocket Guide to Western Mushrooms by David Arora
Floras:
Plants
- Illustrated Flora of British Columbia by BC Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management and the BC Conservation Data Centre, 8 volume series. (1998)
- Flora of the Pacific Northwest: An Illustrated Manual by C. Leo Hitchcock and Arthur Cronquist
Algae
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Keys to the Seaweeds and Seagrasses of Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon by Paul W Gabrielson and Sandra C Lindstrom, Jan 2018.
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Marine Algae of California by Isabella A. Abbott and George J. Hollenberg (I think this is used by phycologists in BC / the PNW?)
Online Resources:
- E-Flora BC is a biogeographic atlas of the vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, algae, fungi and slime molds of British Columbia.
- Flora of North America
- The Burke Museum in Natural History and Culture Herbarium
Herbarium manuals for collecting and processing:
- Collecting and preserving plant specimens, a manual. Queensland Herbarium. 2016.
- Techniques and Procedures for Collecting, Preserving, Processing, and Storing Botanical Specimens. British Columbia Ministry of Forests. 1996.
- Field Techniques Used by Missouri Botanical Garden (1992)
- Preparation of Plant Specimens for Deposit as Herbarium Vouchers Florida Museum of Natural History (2020)
Online tutorial videos:
- Botany Foray 2012 – Jeannette Whitton – How to collect plants for the museum
This short video give a glimpse of how botanists collect and press plants in the field. - RBGE Herbarium: Basic Plant Collecting and Pressing