 | A Naturalist's Guide to Forest Plants: An Ecology for Eastern North America by Donald D. Cox
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $13.00 Wonderful guide on the ecology and plant species found in Northeastern forests.
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 | Tom Brown's Guide to Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants (Field Guide) by Tom Brown
Buy new: $10.77 / Used from: $7.00 One of the best guides on edible wild plants, many of which grow in the Northeast.
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 | The Secrets of Wildflowers: A Delightful Feast of Little-Known Facts, Folklore, and History by Jack Sanders
Buy used from: $0.66 A really amazing book on many wildflowers including hard to find information. Organized by blooming time.
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 | Book of Forest & Thicket, The: Trees, Shrubs, and Wildflowers of Eastern North America by John Eastman
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $4.34 Highly recommended.
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 | Book of Field & Roadside: Open-Country Weeds, Trees, and Wildflowers of Eastern North America by John Eastman
Buy new: $14.21 / Used from: $10.50 Another good one by John Eastman, but this one is on plants found in the fields not in the forest.
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 | Native Plants of the Northeast: A Guide for Gardening & Conservation by Donald J. Leopold
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $19.74 Very good book on gardening and conserving native plants of the Northeast. Not a lot of information on each plant, but beautiful pictures and well organized. A good book for gardeners.
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 | Stalking the Wild Asparagus by Euell Gibbons
Buy used from: $7.75 Very good book on edible wild plants, one of the best. Very well known.
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 | Foraging New England: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods and Medicinal Plants from Maine to Connecticut by Tom Seymour
Buy new: $11.33 / Used from: $9.62 Good book for identification and for edible wild plant information.
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 | A Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs: Of Eastern and Central North America (Peterson Field Guide) by Steven Foster
Buy new: $11.23 / Used from: $10.89 Good field guide with important information on the edible or medicinal status of certain northeastern plants.
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 | Trees of New England: A Natural History by Charles Fergus
Buy new: $13.22 / Used from: $7.05 A good one that I used to have and just ordered again.
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 | A Natural History of North American Trees by Donald Culross Peattie
Buy new: $26.67 / Used from: $23.99 Wonderful read, rich chapters and enjoyable writing.
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 | Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families, 4th Ed. by Thomas J. Elpel
Buy used from: $29.00 A very good book on plant ecology/communities , easy to read.
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 | A Guide to Enjoying Wildflowers (Stokes Nature Guides) by Donald Stokes
Buy used from: $0.01 Very very good.
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 | The Wildflower Book (Stokes Backyard Nature Books) by Donald Stokes
Buy used from: $0.01 All of the Stokes plant guides are recommended.
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 | Discovering Wild Plants: Alaska, Western Canada, The Northwest by Janice Schofield Eaton
Buy used from: $58.00 One of my favorites. Covers medicinals and wild foods - most of these plants grow in the Northeast.
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 | A Naturalist's Guide to Wetland Plants: An Ecology for Eastern North America by Donald D. Cox
Buy new: $16.70 / Used from: $13.41 He also has one on field plants. The first few chapters are the same in each book, but the rest is different... Very good books.
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 | Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards by Sara B. Stein
Buy new: $11.39 / Used from: $0.01 A good book on gardening with natives which discusses native plant ecology.
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