For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of books and journal articles in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research in several areas of botany. Use PONI to determine the call numbers and to find other books on your topic. Journals are shelved alphabetically by title.
Categories within this
Library Guide:
Reference | N.M./the
West/Native Americans | General
Flora of North America: North of Mexico
(1993-
)
Guide to Flowering Plant Families (1994)
Handbook of Native American Herbs (1992)
Handbook of Rocky Mountain Plants (1992)
Native American Ethnobotany (1998)
New Mexico/the West/Native Americans
Alpine Flora of the Rocky Mountains
Amateur Botany in New Mexico
Biotic Communities: Southwestern United
States and Northwestern Mexico
Brother Crow, Sister Corn (gardening
in Native American societies)
"Calculating the Cultural Significance of
American Indian Plants,"
American Anthropologist,
92:2
(June 1990)
"Cattail on the Cob and Other Weeds You Can
Eat," [New Mexico's edible plants],
New Mexico Magazine,
62:11
(November 1984)
Desert and Mountain Plants of the Southwest
Fall Wildflowers of New Mexico
Field Guide to Rocky Mountain Wildflowers
Flora of Colorado
Flora of New Mexico
Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona
Flowering Plants of New Mexico
Handbook of Rare and Endemic Plants of
New Mexico
Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande
Healing Plants: A Medicinal Guide to Native
North American Plants and Herbs
Healing with Plants in the American and
Mexican West
How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food,
Medicine and Crafts (Chippewa)
Illustrated Flora of the Pacific States
(4
v.)
Indian Uses of Native Plants
Medicinal Plants of Native America
Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon
West
Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West
"Mid-Nineteenth-century Botanical
Exploration in New Mexico," (Dickerman,
Carolyn),
New Mexico Historical Review, 60:2 (April 1985)
Mushrooms and Truffles of the Southwest
New Mexico Vegetation
Plants of Northern Arizona
[Los] Remedios: Traditional
Herbal Remedies of the Southwest
Roadside Plants of Northern New Mexico
Rocky Mountain Flora
Rocky Mountain Wildflowers
Spring Wildflowers of New Mexico
Summer Wildflowers of New Mexico
Trees and Shrubs of New Mexico
Vegetation of New Mexico
Weeds of the West
Western Forest Trees
Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province
Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the
Four Corners
Biology of Plants
Essentials of Plant Biology
First Book of Grasses
Fundamentals of Plant Systematics
[The] Herbalist (Meyer,
rev. ed. 1986)
How to Know the Fall Wildflowers
How to Know the Grasses
How to Know the Trees
Index to the Ferns
Introduction to the Plant Kingdom
Living Plants
Manual of Botany
Manual of Trees of North America
Manual of Weeds
New Manual of Botany
Plant Ecology
Plant Kingdom
Plant Life Cycles
Plant Physiology
Plant Systematics
Plants, People and Culture: The Science
of Ethnobotany
Plants Useful to Man
Poisonous Plants of the United States