Seeking recommendations

[urbpan]

My boss asked me if I knew of a good field guide to ferns and mosses (and "understory plants," as he called it) of the Northeast (North America) region. I had to admit that I didn't, but I would like to! I would love to ID the ferns and mosses and liverworts and horsetails and club-mosses (princess pine! I own a vintage copy of the Golden Guide to "Non-flowering plants" which covers fungi and lichens as well as spore-producing plants, and the Audubon guide to New England which has a few pages on Bryophytes and ferns and such. But a look on Amazon shows only a guide to the Northwestern region--curse them and their wonderful biodiversity!--nothing for us in the snowbound NE.

So, am I missing something? Is there another guide out there that covers what we're looking for?

I wish the "North Woods" series had one. The have the spider guide that I consult every time I find something with eight legs, and a tantalizing guide to lichens that I don't own yet, it would be nice for them to cover ferns and mosses.

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Can't help alas, but what is this spider guide of which you speak?!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

It's spiders of the north woods, a slim volume that has been amazingly useful in identifying my local spiders.