Appendix 5A: Additional Resources for Roadside Managers

Native Plant and Seedling Guides

Books

• An Illustrated Guide to Iowa Prairie Plants by Paul Christiansen and Mark Müller (1999).
• How to Know the Grasses by Richard Pohl (1978).
• The Prairie in Seed: Identifying Seed-Bearing Prairie Plants in the Upper Midwest by Dave Williams (2016).
• Roadside Plants and Flowers by Marian Edsall (1985).
• The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Seed and Seedling Identification in the Upper Midwest by Dave Williams (2010).
• Tallgrass Prairie Wildflowers: A Field Guide to Common Wildflowers and Plants of the Prairie Midwest by Douglas Ladd and Frank Oberle (1995).
• The Vascular Plants of Iowa by Lawrence Eilers and Dean Roosa (1994).
• Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest by Sylvan Runkel and Dean Roosa (2009).

Free Online Publications

• Central Region Seedling ID Guide for Native Prairie Plants by Natural Resources Conservation Service Plant Materials Program and Missouri Department of Conservation (2005).
• The Prairie Seedling and Seeding Evaluation Guide by Santec for the Iowa Department of Transportation Living Roadway Trust Fund.
• Wetland Plants and Plant Communities of Minnesota and Wisconsin by Steve Eggers and Donald Reed (2015).

Restoration and Management Guides 

Books

• A Practical Guide to Prairie Reconstruction by Carl Kurtz (2013).
• The Ecology and Management of Prairies in the Central United States by Chris Helzer (2010). 
• The Tallgrass Prairie Center Guide to Prairie Restoration in the Upper Midwest by Daryl Smith, Dave Williams, Greg Houseal, and Kirk Henderson (2010).
• The Tallgrass Restoration Handbook edited by Stephen Packard and Cornelia Mutel (2005).

Free Online Publications

• Native Seed Production Manual by the Tallgrass Prairie Center.
• Tree and Brush Control for County Road Right-of-Way by Iowa Highway Research Board—Iowa Department of Transportation and Roadside Management Program at the University of Northern Iowa (2002).

Weed and Weed Seedling Guides

Books

• Invasive Plants of the Upper Midwest: An Illustrated Guide to Their Identification and Control by Elizabeth Czarapata (2005).
• Weeds of the Midwestern United States & Central Canada edited by Charles Bryson and Michael DeFelice (2010).
• Weeds of Nebraska and the Great Plains by James Stubbendieck, Geir Friisoe, and Margaret Bolick (1995).
• Weeds of the Northern U.S. and Canada: A Guide for Identification by France Royer and Richard Dickinson (1999).

Free Online Publications

• A Field Guide to Terrestrial Invasive Plants in Wisconsin edited by Thomas Boos, Kelly Kearns, Courtney LeClair, Brendon Panke, Bryn Scriver, and Bernadette Williams (2010).
• Common Weed Seedlings of the North Central States by Andrew Chomas, James Kells, and J. Boyd Carey (2001).