Vascular Plants of the Pacific Northwest by CL Hitchcock

"The public library is the most dangerous place in town."--John Ciardi

Vascular Plants of the Northwest by Charles L. Hitchcock is the classic compendium of the native plants of the Pacific Northwest. Marylhurst's Shoen library only has the Condensed version, a.k.a. the Big Book or The Botany Bible as the authoritative resource on native plant identification. Flora of the Pacific Northwest: an illustrated volume is available at Clackamas County public libraries in several cities They have the Big Book available for checkout or to look at in the reference section. The only place around here that you can find all five volumes of the entire encyclopedia of native northwest plants is at the Clackamas Community College library in the reference section.