Ronald J. Taylor and George W. Douglas. Mountain Plants of the Pacific Northwest Mountain Press Publishing Company. 1995.

This is a very well written and well organized field guide to the plants of the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. You'll find a brief description of the growing zones for the west and eastern mountain slopes. The plant descriptions are divided into ferns and their allies, trees, shrubs and forbs, and grass plants and their relatives. If you can determine which of these broad categories an unidentified plant belongs to, your time searching for its identification will be greatly shortened.

I really liked the organization of the plant descriptions. You always find the written description and special notes about the plant(s) on the left side with excellent photographs of the plants on the right side. This way you aren't flipping from one section of the book to another to see the plant you just read about!

The end of the book contained taxonomic keys for identifying the ferns, trees and herbaceous plants. Next you'll find some line drawings showing you different types of leaf arrangements and flowers. A glossary concludes the book

If you live in the Pacific Northwest or simply visit there, be sure to have this book in your backpack. It will soon be dog-eared from frequent use.