The following is a list of resources that may come in handy as you try to make sense of the botanical world of the Teton Valley (and beyond):
Web sites
Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve – In Grand Teton National Park, a wonderful place to hike and botanize. There is a very high degree of overlap of species in Teton Valley and LSRP/
iNaturalist – a wonderful resource for “instant” identification from a cell phone photo, in the field or at home. Works better sometimes than others but has been a great resource for this site.
Idaho Mountain Wildflowers (the web version or Earle and Lundin’s book)
Idaho noxious weeds list (with photos; not all occur in Teton County or are noxious here)
Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) weed list (with photos)
Native Plants of North America at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
US Forest Service – Celebrating Wildflowers
USDA Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) – if the species is here, the amount of information on it is outstanding
Naturegate – this is a Finnish site but a fun place to look for things about circumboreal plants that are found in Idaho.
Wyoming Native Plants Society – especially good blog articles
Books
The Trail to Table Mountain – Kelley Coburn – 2009 – Black Timber Press (Amazon) – There is simply no way that any photo on my site is as good as any Coburn drawing in this book!
Idaho Mountain Wildflowers – A photographic compendium 3rd Edition – A. Scott Earle and Jane Lundin – 2012 – Larkspur Books (Amazon)
Prairie Wildflowers – Showy wildflowers of the Plains, Valleys and Foothills in the Northern Rocky Mountain States – Dee Stickler – 1986 – The Flower Press, Columbia Falls, MT (Amazon)
Forest Wildflowers – An easy-to-use field guide to showy wildflowers in the northern and central Rocky Mountain forests – Dee Stickler – 1988 – The Flower Press, Columbia Falls, MT (Amazon)
Alpine Wildflowers – Showy wildflowers of the Alpine and Subalpine Areas of the Northern Rocky Mountain States – Dee Stickler – 1990 – The Flower Press, Columbia Falls, MT (Amazon)
Plants of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, including the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem – Richard J Shaw & Marion A Shaw – 2019 – RMS Trust Press – ISBN 978-0-9702067-3-2 (NP Info Center, Jackson WY)
A Field Guide to Grasses and Grass-like Plants of Idaho – Justin J Trujillo & Eva K Strand – 2018 – University of Idaho Extension – (ISBN 978-1-58803-000-9) (University of Idaho Extension)
Teton Valley Organizations
Teton Regional Land Trust
US Forest Service
Friends of the Teton River
Teton Valley Trails and Pathways
Teton Conservation District (Wyoming)
Wyoming Native Plants Society – especially good blog articles
