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What is Left and Where is it?
Prairie Management & Reconstruction
A Prairie Bibliography
This list was generated as a collaborative effort of the membership of the Iowa Prairie Network. Its primary intended purpose is to provide interested persons with a wide range of information concerning the life of and the life on the prairie.
GENERAL, BACKGROUND AND
INFORMATION:
A Brief History of Iowa, Herbert Kersten
American Prairies, William K. Smithey
Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie, An Ethnobotanical Guide,
Kelly Kindscher
Fragile Giants, A Natural History of the Loess Hills,
Cornelia F. Mutel
Handbook for Butterfly Watchers, Robert Michael Pyle
How to Know Wildflowers, A New Edition of the American
Classic, by Mrs. William Star Dana, originally published in 1893
Iowa's Natural Heritage, Iowa Natural Heritage
Foundation and Iowa Academy of Science, Tom Cooper, Exec. Editor
Jewel of the Plains: Wildflowers of the Great Plains,
Grasslands, and Hills, Claude A. Barr
Landforms of Iowa, Jean C. Prior
Land of the Fragile Giants- Landscapes, Environments, and
Peoples of the Loess Hills, Cornelia Mutel and Mary Swander
Landscaping for Wildlife, Minnesota Department of
Natural Resources
Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie, An Ethnobotanical
Guide, Kelly Kindscher
Native Harvests, Recipes and Botanicals of the American
Indian, Barrie Kavasch
Nature's Heartland, Native Plant Communities of the Great
Plains, William Boon and Harlan Groe
New Pronouncing Dictionary of Plant Names, 'Florists'
Publishing Co.
North American Prairie, J. E. Weaver
Prairie Directory of North America, C. Adelman and B. L Schwartz. Lawndale Enterprises. 2001.
Prairie Plants and Their Environment, A Fifty- Year Study
in the Midwest, J. E. Weaver, U of Nebraska Press
The Prairie World, David Costello
A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
Seasons of the Tall Grass Prairie, A nature Conservancy
Book, John Madson
Where the Sky Began, Land of the Tallgrass Prairie,
John Madson
Wild Seasons, Gathering and
Cooking Wild Plants of the Great Plains, Kay Young
PROPAGATION AND MANAGEMENT
Bringing Back the Prairie: A Restoration Guide for School
and Community Sites, John Stiles
A Garden of Wildflowers, 101 Native Species and How to
Grow Them, Henry W. Art
Going Native: A Prairie Planting Guide, Polk County
Conservation Board, Loren Lown
Growing and Propagating Wild Flowers, Harry R. Philips
Growing Wildflowers, A Gardener's Guide, Marie Sperka
How to Manage Small Prairie Fires, Wayne Pauly
The New Wild Flowers and How to Grow Them, Edwin F.
Steffek
A Practicle Guide to Prairie Reconstruction. Kurtz Carl.
Prairies, Forests, & Wetlands, the Restoration of
Natural Landscape Communities in Iowa, Janette R. Thompson
The Prairie Garden, 70 Native Plants You Can Grow in Town
or Country, J. Robert Smith
Prairie Propagation Handbook, Wehr Nature Center,
Whitnall Park (Franklin, Wisc) H. W. Rock
Restoring the Tallgrass Prairie- An Illustrated Manual for
Iowa and the Upper Midwest, Shirley Shirley
The Wildflower Gardner's Guide: Midwestern Great Plains,
Canadian Prairies, Ed., Henry W. Art
Wild Gardening, Richard
L. Austin
IDENTIFICATION: KEYS AND
GUIDES
Atlas of the Flora of the Great Plains, The Great
Plains Flora Association, T. M. Barkley, Editor (Iowa State Press 1977)
The Audubon Society Nature Guides, GRASSLANDS, Lauren
Brown
Distribution Maps of Iowa Prairie Plants, Paul A.
Christiansen (Iowa D.O.T.)
Field Guide to the Grasses, Sedges and Rushes of the
United States, Edward Knobel
Flora of the Great Plains, The Great Plains Flora
Association, T. M. Barkley, Editor (University Press of Kansas 1986)
A Golden Guide: "Flowers", Zin and Martin
Grasses, and Identification Guide, Lauren Brown
A Guide to Field Identification: Wildflowers of North
America, Frank D. Venning
Handbook for Butterfly Watchers, Robert Michael Pyle
Herbaceous Perennial Plants: Treatise on Their
Identification, Culture, and Garden Attributes, Allan M. Armitage
How to Know the Grasses, Richard W. Pohl
How to Know the Wildflowers, A New Edition of the American
Classic, Mrs. William Starr Dana (originally published in 1893)
Illinois Wild Flowers, (Illinois State Museum; Popular
Science Series Vol. III) John Voss and Virginia S. Eifert
An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and
Canada, in Three Volumes, Nathaniel Lord Britton and Hon. Addison Brown
Kansas Prairie Wild Flowers, Clenton E. Owesnby
The Key, Floyd Swink
Keys to Iowa Vascular Plants, Richard W. Pohl
Manual of the Grasses of the United States, (2 Vol.)
A. S. Hitchcock
Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, L. Newcomb
Peterson Field Guide Series, A Field Guide to Wildflowers
of Northeast and Northcentral North America, R. T. Peterson and M. McKenny
Pods, Wildflowers and Weeds in their Final Beauty, A
Visual Guide from Flower…to Pod…to Dried Arrangement, Jane Emertson
The Prairie, Swells and Swale, Torkel Korling
Spring Flora of Wisconsin, Norman Fassett
The Vascular Plants of Iowa- An Annotated Checklist and
Natural History, Lawrence J. Eilers and Dean Roosa
The Vascular Plants of South Dakota, Theodore Van
Bruggen
Wildflowers and Weeds, Courtetnay and Zimmerman
Wildflowers for Nebraska Landscapes, University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, Agric. Res. Div. Institute of Agric. And Natural Resources
Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie, The Upper Midwest,
Sylvan Runkel and Dean Roosa
Wildflowers, Grass & Other Plants of the Northern
Plains and Black Hills, Theodore Van Bruggen
Weeds of the North Central
States, North Central Regional Research Publication #281, Bulletin 772
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
THE ROMANCE OF THE PRAIRIE,
FACT AND FICTION
My Antonia, Willa Cather
Pioneers! A Classic novel of the American Prairie,
Willa Cather
Prairie Memories, Izanna
Prairie Poetry, Patricia Kay Armstrong, Ed.
Prairiescapes, Photographs by Larry Kanfer
PrairieErth, William Least Heat-Moon
A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold