Range Plant Acknowledgements
RANGE PLANT IDENTIFICATION BOOKS
Prepared by:
Darren Bruhjell
Industry Competitiveness Branch
Nancy Portman and Greg Tegart
Regional Operations
B.C. Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Fisheries
This booklet is part of a four booklet series that includes:
Range Plants of the Peace Region
Range Plants of the Northern Interior
Range Plants of the Central Interior
Range Plants of the Southern Interior
The following individuals and agencies are gratefully acknowledged for providing
illustrations and photographs:
Illustration Credits
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Looman, J). 1982
Prairie Grasses: Identified and Described
by Vegetative Characters. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada Publication 1453. Reproduced
with the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada. 2005. P.
33, 40, 41, 42, 47, 78, 88, 89, 106, 121, 126, 133, 156, 167, 201, 232, 233, 236, 239.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. (Looman, J. and K.F. Best) 1987.
Budd’s Flora of the
Canadian Prairies. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada. Publication 1662. Reproduced with
the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada. 2005. P. 251,
481, 503, 538, 556.
Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management, Ministry of
Forests.
Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. 2001. Vol. 4:263, 337; Vol. 5:33; Vol. 7:153.
Stone, C. and D. Lawrence 2000.
Northern Range Plants. Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. P. 19, 131.
Maywood, John. Special Collections, Rutherford Library, UofA, Edmonton, AB; Stone, C. and D.
Lawrence 2000.
Northern Range Plants. Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development. P.22, 78.
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database /
Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the
northern states and Canada.Vol. 1: 181.
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database /
Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the
northern states and Canada.Vol. 1: 422.
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database /
Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the
northern states and Canada.Vol. 3: 270.
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database /
Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the
northern states and Canada.Vol. 3: 282.
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database /
Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. Illustrated flora of the
northern states and Canada.Vol. 2: 257.
Taylor, John E. and John Lacey. 1999.
Monitoring Montana Rangeland. P. 5 and 6.
USDA-NRCS. 2005.
The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data
Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
Flora of the Pacific Northwest, An Illustrated Manual, Hitchcock, C. Leo and Arthur
Cronquist.
1973. University of Washington Press. P. 290.
North American Wildland Plants, A Field Guide, Stubbendieck, James, Stephan L. Hatch &
LM Landholt, 2003 Board of Regents, University of Nebraska.
Photo Credits
Range Plants of the Central Interior:
The photos on pages 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36,
41, 42, 43, were taken by Colin Stone (Alberta Agriculture) and Pat Porter (Alberta
Government), used with permission from
Northern Range Plants. Alberta Agriculture, Food
and Rural Development, Home Study Program, Copyright 2000.
Larry Allain @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database
Thomas G. Barnes @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database
Don Blumenauer, 1998. Rangeland Handbook for BC. British Columbia Cattlemen’s Association.
Dave Powell, USDA Forest Service, www.forestryimages.org
Mary Ellen (Mel) Harte, www.forestryimages.org
Gil Wojciech, Polish Forest Research, www.forestryimages.org
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database /
Hurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J.Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, &
S. Goodrich. 1998. Field guide to Intermountain sedges.Gen.Tech. Rep. RMS-GTR-10. USDA FS
RMRS, Ogden,UT.
Robert H.Mohlenbrock @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1995. Northeast
wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester, PA.
Range Plants of the Southern Interior:
The photos on pages 12, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 44,
were taken by Colin Stone (Alberta Agriculture) and Pat Porter (Alberta Government), used with
permission from
Northern Range Plants. Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development,
Home Study Program, Copyright 2000.
Larry Allain @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database
Thomas G. Barnes @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database
Don Bluemenauer, 1998.
Rangeland Handbook for BC. British Columbia Cattlemen’s Association.
Dave Powell, USDA Forest Service, www.forestryimages.org
Mary Ellen (Mel) Harte, www.forestryimages.org
Gil Wojciech, Polish Forest Research, www.forestryimages.org
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database /
Hurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J.Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, &
S. Goodrich. 1998. Field guide to Intermountain sedges.Gen.Tech. Rep. RMS-GTR-10. USDA FS
RMRS, Ogden,UT.
Walter Majak (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada).
© 2005 Stephen Dowlan
© 2000 Thayne Tuason
Robert H. Mohlenbrock @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1995.
Northeast wetland
flora: Field office guide to plant species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester, PA.
Range Plants of the Peace Region:
The photos on pages 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, taken by Colin Stone (Alberta Agriculture) and Pat
Porter (Alberta Government), used with permission from
Northern Range Plants. Alberta
Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Home Study Program, Copyright 2000.
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database /
Hurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J.Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, &
S. Goodrich. 1998. Field guide to Intermountain sedges. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMS-GTR-10. USDA
FS RMRS, Ogden, UT.
Robert H.Mohlenbrock. USDA NRCS. 1995.
Northeast wetland flora: Field office guide to plant
species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester, PA. Courtesy of USDA NRCS Wetland
Science Institute.
Dave Powell, USDA Forest Service,
www.forestryimages.org
Gil Wojciech, Polish Forest Research, www.forestryimages.org
Range Plants of the Northern Interior:
The photos on pages 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33,
34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, taken by Colin Stone (Alberta Agriculture) and Pat Porter
(Alberta Government), used with permission from
Northern Range Plants. Alberta Agriculture,
Food and Rural Development, Home Study Program, Copyright 2000.
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database /
Hurd, E.G., N.L. Shaw, J.Mastrogiuseppe, L.C. Smithman, &
S. Goodrich. 1998. Field guide to Intermountain sedges. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMS-GTR-10. USDA
FS RMRS, Ogden, UT.
Robert H. Mohlenbrock @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database /
USDA NRCS. 1995. Northeast
wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. Northeast National Technical Center, Chester,
PA.
Dave Powell, USDA Forest Service,
www.forestryimages.org
Gil Wojciech, Polish Forest Research,
www.forestryimages.org
The information contained in these booklets has been obtained from a number of sources
including:
Northern Range Plants. 2000. Alberta Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, Home Study
Program.
Parish, Robert, Ray Coupe and Dennis Lloyd. Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia and
the Inland Northwest. 1996. Lone Pine Publishing.
Stubbendieck, James, Stephan L. Hatch and L.M. Landholt, North American Wildland Plants, A
Field Guide. 2003. University of Nebraska Press.
Roche, Ben. 1983. Range Plants, Their Identification Usefulness and Management. Washington
State University.
The authors wish to thank the following individuals for their assistance in the creation of this
series of booklets: Laura Blonski, Keith Carroll, Bob Drinkwater, Chris Easthope, Doug Fraser,
Ross Green, Glenn Heyes, Cathy Mumford, Rick Tucker of the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lois
Hameister,
Alberta Government and Alf Bawtree.
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