• Brooks, Maurice (1965), The Appalachians: The Naturalist's America; illustrated by Lois Darling and Lo Brooks. Boston; Houghton Mifflin Company.
• Caudill, Harry M. (1963), Night Comes to the Cumberlands. ISBN 0-316-13212-8.
• Constantz, George (2004), Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders: an Appalachian Mountain Ecology (2nd edition). West Virginia University Press; Morgantown. 359 p.
• Weidensaul, Scott (2000), Mountains of the Heart: A Natural History of the Appalachians. Fulcrum Publishing, 288 pages, ISBN 1-55591-139-0.

Appalachian flora and fauna-related journals:

• Castanea, the journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Society.
• Banisteria, a journal devoted to the natural history of Virginia.
• The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society.