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1. Required Texts for HORT 217:

Dirr, M.A. 1998. Manual of Woody Landscape Plants. Stipes Publishing Company. Champaign, Illinois. On reserve in Lilly Hall of Life Science Library.

Stidd, B.M. and Henry, R.D. 1995. Key to Common Woody Landscape Plants in the Midwest. Stipes Publishing L.L.C., Champaign, Illinois.

Jenks, M.A. 2008. Woody Landscape Plants Lecture Notes. The current week's group of plant notes should be brought to each Monday lecture. Available on Blackboard. Do not print the entire document at one setting in the PUCC labs because it will create too long of a delay for other PUCC lab printer users.

2. Recommended Texts and Digital Resources.

Bailey. 1963. How Plants Get Their Names. Dover Publications, Inc..

Bean, W.J. 1988. Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles. Vol I-IV. Butler and Tanner, Ltd., London. 4 Volumes.

Deam, C.C. 1953. Trees of Indiana. Department of Conservation, Division of Forestry, Indianapolis, IN.

Deam, C.C. 1940. Flora of Indiana. Department of Conservation, Division of Forestry, Indianapolis, IN.

Deam, C.C. 1932. Shrubs of Indiana. Department of Conservation, Division of Forestry, Indianapolis, IN.

Dirr, M.A. 1997. Michael Dirr's Photo-Library of Woody Landscape Plants. PLANTAMERICATM. Locust Valley, NY. CD

Flint, H.L. 1997. Landscape Plants for Eastern North America, 2nd Ed.. Wiley- Interscience, New York.

Gilman, E.F. 1998. Horticopia. Trees, Shrubs, and Groundcovers, 2nd Ed. Horticopia, Inc. Purcellville, VA. CD

Gilman, E.F., et al. 1996. Southern Trees, 2nd Ed. University of Florida and USDA Forest Service, Southern Region. CD

Hoch, W.A. 1997. Landscape Plants of the Upper Midwest. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Horticulture Department. CD

Jacobson, A.L. 1996. North American Landscape Trees; drawings by Michael C. Lee. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA.

Judd, W.S. et al., 2002. Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach, 2nd Ed. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, MA.

Krussmann, G. 1985. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs. Vol I-III. Timber Press, Portland, OR.

Rehder, A. 1986. Manual of Cultivated Trees and Shrubs Hardy in North America. Dioscorides Press. Portland, OR.

Sargent, C.S. 1933. Manual of the Trees of North America (exclusive of Mexico). Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Press. Cambridge, MA.

Stephens, H.A. 1973. Woody Plants of the North Central Plains. The University Press of Kansas. Manhattan, KS.

Swink, F. and Wilhelm, G. 1994. Plants of the Chicago Region. Indiana Academy of Science. Indianapolis, IN.

Weeks, S.S., et al., 2005. Native Trees of the Midwest. Purdue University Press, IN.

 

 

Dr. Matthew A. Jenks
Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Horticulture Building, Room 314
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010
Phone: 765-494-1332
Email: jenksm@purdue.edu