This guide will help you find books, videos, articles and websites about horticulture. Use the menus on your right to start searching for different types of materials.
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Use our catalog to find books, videos, and other resources in our collections.
Call Number Ranges
Use these call number ranges to browse the General Collection and the Reference Collection.
| SB 371.5 - SB 450.87 | Horticulture |
| SB 450.9 - SB 467 | Gardens and Gardening |
| SB 469 - SB 476.4 | Landscape Design |
| QK 95 | Plant Taxonomy |
| QK 475 - QK 494 | Trees |
There are several encyclopedias, handbooks, and dictionaries to use for a quick lookup. Reference materials are not typically something you sit down and read cover to cover, though you could if you really wanted to. A small selection is shown below.
Reference Books
Online Reference Materials
Students also have access to these fine online sources of reference materials:
- JSTOR Global PlantsJSTOR Global Plants contains the contributed collections of plant type specimens from more than 300 herbaria from around the world. Plant type specimens are critical to scientific study because of their pivotal role as original vouchers of nomenclature and act as a historical record of changes to flora. There are nearly two million high-resolution type specimens currently in the Global Plants database. Faculty and students can also access reference works and primary sources—such as collectors’ correspondence and diaries, paintings, drawings, and photographs.
- Landscape Plants of the Chicago AreaCreated by Professor Emeritus, Julia Fitzpatrick-Cooper, this collection offers a series of Plant Profiles specifically for students in the HORT 2241 Landscape Plants I and HORT 2242 Landscape Plants II courses. These master plant lists provided the student with images of selected plants from local sources, showing typical attributes and features necessary for identifying, naming and using plants in the Chicago area. The intention of this collection is to provide a valid study tool with pertinent images and information.
- Credo Reference
Credo Reference provides access to a broad selection of dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations, and atlases, plus a wide range of subject-specific titles. Includes a built-in mind map to help students brainstorm search terms. Credo is a great place to start your research.
I-Share
The library is part of a consortium of academic libraries known as I-Share. As COD students, you can request items from other libraries and pick them up at the COD Library, all at no cost to you. For more information, visit our Requesting Items Webpage.
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