Guidebooks

The Garden Path Gift Shop carries a wide variety of guidebooks which focus on southern Appalachian flora and fauna.  Also there are numerous books on hiking and bicycling and sightseeing opportunities in the area.


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Also see:
 Peterson Guides
 Pocket Naturalist Series 
 Fall Color ID Guides

Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains, Richard M. Smith

A complete, non-technical field guide, featuring 600 color photos, to nearly all of the flowers in the southern mountains.  He provides pictorial keys based on flower shape and color for easy identification.  492 pp. $24.95.

Newcomb's Wildflower Guide. Lawrence Newcomb.  

A new key system for quick, positive field identification of wildflower, flowers shrubs, and vines.  Identification system is based on natural structural features that easily visible even to the untrained eye.  490 pp.  $19.95.  
  

Tree Finder.  May Theilgaard Watts.  

A manual for the identification of trees by their leaves. 50 pp.  $3.50

Trees of the Central Appalachians.

Laminated guide to 72 species of trees in the Appalachian Mountains. Tri-fold. $7.95.

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