Field Guides and Reference Books
For fungi: For mosses: For ferns, horsetails and club mosses: For wetland plants: For shrubs: For trees: For wildflowers: For insects: For amphibians and reptiles For birds: For mammals: For animal tracks, scats and other signs:
Mushrooms of Ontario and Eastern Canada by George Barron, Lone
Pine Publishing Co., 1999
A Graphic Guide to Ontario Mosses by Robert Muma, Toronto Field
Naturalists, 1984
Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America, 2nd edition by R. Cobb, Farnsworth and Lowe, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 2005
The Ferns of Grey and Bruce by Bruce-Grey Plant Committee,
Owen Sound Field Naturalists, 1999 (available at TFN office)
Wetland Plants Ontario by S.G. Newmaster, A.G. Harris, L.J.
Kershaw, et al., Lone Pine Publishing Co., 1997
Shrubs of Ontario by James H. Soper and Margaret Heimburger,
Royal Ontario Museum, 1982
Native Trees of Canada by R.C. Hosie (Eighth Edition), Fitzhenry
and Whiteside, 1979
Trees in Canada by John Laird Farrar, Fitzhenry and Whiteside,
1995
A Field Guide to Wildflowers by R.T. Peterson and Margaret
McKenney, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1968
Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb, Little,
Brown & Co., 1977
The ROM Fieldguide to Wildflowers of Ontario by T. Dickinson, D. Metsger, J. Bull and R. Dickinson,
McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 2004
The Orchids of Bruce and Grey by the Bruce-Grey Plant Committee,
Owen Sound Field Naturalists, 1997 (available at TFN office)
The Asters, Goldenrods and Fleabanes of Grey and Bruce Counties
by Bruce Grey Plant Committee, Owen Sound Field Naturalists, 2000 (available
at TFN office)
Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America by Eric R. Eaton and Kenn Kaufman,
Houghton Mifflin & Co., 2007
A Field Guide to the Insects by D.U. Barron and R.E. White,
Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1970
A Field Guide to Eastern Butterflies by Paul A. Opler and Vichai
Malikul, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1992
Familiar Reptiles and Amphibians of Ontario by Bob Johnson,
Natural Heritage/Natural History, 1989
A Field Guide to the Birds (Revised Edition) by R.T. Peterson,
Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1999
Birds of North America by C.S. Robbins et al, Golden Press,
1983
Field Guide to the Birds of North America (Revised Second Edition),
National Geographic Society, 1987
Mammals of North America, (4th edition) by Fiona Reid, Houghton Mifflin
& Co., 2006
A Field Guide to Animal Tracks, by Olaus J. Murie, Houghton
Mifflin & Co., 1975

