Over 1,900 indigenous, alien, and culivated species found in the deserts and mountains of northern Utah are identified in this illustrated manual for professionals, students, and amateur taxonomists.

Uinta Flora, first published by the USDA Forest Service in 1986 and updated in 2014 and 2016, is a field guide to approx. 1700 species of plants found in the Uinta Basin and Uinta Mountains of northeastern Utah, western Colorado, and southwest Wyoming. The guide provides keys, descriptions, and habitat information for each species.

A comprehensive guide that includes a vast range of species and plant communities and employs thorough, original keys. Based primarily on vegetative characteristics, the keys don't require that flowers or other reproductive features be present, like many plant guides. And this guide's attention to woody plants as a whole allows one to identify a much greater variety of plants. That especially suits an arid region such as Utah with less diverse native trees. Woody plants are those that have stems that persist above ground even through seasons that don't favor growth, due to low precipitation or temperatures. Woody Plants of Utah employs dichotomous identification keys that are comparable to a game of twenty questions. They work through a process of elimination by choosing sequential alternatives. Detailed, illustrated plant descriptions complement the keys and provide additional botanical and environmental information in relation to a useful introductory categorization of Utah plant communities. Supplementary tools include photos, distribution maps, and an illustrated glossary.