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!

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Peterson Field Guides - Ferns of Northeastern and Central North America, 2nd ed., Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2005. ISBN 0618394060

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Thanks! That seems to cover ferns, horsetails, and club mosses. I'm pretty sure I'll get that, and recommend it to Dr. Frog. Mosses and liverworts will have to be in another book.