Wildflower Reference Material

Links

• Smith­son­ian National Museum of Nat­ural His­tory: Spring Flow­er­ing Records

Books

There are two sig­nif­i­cant guides to con­sult for your wild­flower search. Both are in the Mar­tins­burg and Shep­herd­stown Libraries:

• Find­ing Wild­flow­ers in the Washington-Baltimore Area by Cristol Flem­ing, Mar­ion Blois Lob­stein, and Bar­bara Tufty.  1995.  The Johns Hop­kins Uni­ver­sity Press.
  A ter­rific guide to wild­flower trails and sites within a 50 mile radius of Wash­ing­ton D.C., includ­ing Wash­ing­ton Co., MD. This book will tell you where to look, how to get there, what to look for and the months when the wild­flow­ers are in bloom.

• Newcomb’s Wild­flower Guide by Lawrence New­comb. Lit­tle, Brown and Co. 1977.
  Presents iden­ti­fi­ca­tion in a five-question sys­tem based on nat­ural struc­tural fea­tures. An expla­na­tion of how to use the sys­tem is given. Accu­rate black and white line draw­ings are used. There are a few pages illus­trated in color.