Publications on Local Floras and Floristic Plant Geography
McLaughlin, S. P., and C. T. Mason, Jr. 1977. Notes on new and rare Arizona plants. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 12: 203-204.
Bowers, J. E., and S. P. McLaughlin. 1982. Plant species diversity in Arizona. Madroño 29: 227-233.
Bowers, J. E., and S. P. McLaughlin. 1982. Noteworthy collections of Hypoxis mexicana and Linum subteres. Madroño 29: 57.
McLaughlin, S. P. 1982. A revision of the southwestern species of Amsonia (Apocynaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 69: 336-350.
McLaughlin, S. P. 1985. A new species of Amsonia (Apocynaceae) from central New Mexico. The Southwestern Naturalist 30: 563-565.
McLaughlin, S. P. 1986. A floristic analysis of the southwestern United States. Great Basin Naturalist 46: 46-65.
Bowers, J. E., and S. P. McLaughlin. 1986. Flora and vegetation of the Rincon Mountains, Pima County, Arizona. Desert Plants 8: 51-94.
McLaughlin, S. P., J. E. Bowers, and K. R. F. Hall. 1987. Vascular plants of eastern Imperial County, California. Madroño 34: 359-378.
McLaughlin, S. P. 1989. Natural floristic areas in the western United States. Journal of Biogeography 16: 239-248.
McLaughlin, S. P., and J. E. Bowers. 1990. A floristic analysis and checklist for the northern Santa Rita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona. The Southwestern Naturalist 35: 61-75.
McLaughlin, S. P. 1992. Are floristic areas hierarchically arranged? Journal of Biogeography 19: 21-32.
McLaughlin, S. P. 1992. Vascular flora of Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, Pima County, Arizona. Phytologia 73: 353-377.
Bowers, J. E., and S. P. McLaughlin. 1993. Noteworthy collections: Arizona. Madroño 40: 132-133.
McLaughlin, S. P. 1993. Additions to the flora of the Pinaleño Mountains, Arizona. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 27: 5-32.
McLaughlin, S. P. 1993. Apocynaceae A. L. Juss. Dogbane Family. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 27: 164-168.
McLaughlin, S. P. 1994. Floristic plant geography: the classification of floristic areas and floristic elements. Progress in Physical Geography 18: 185-208.
McLaughlin, S. P. 1995. Organizando la busqueda de especies vegetales raras y en peligro: recopilacion y analisis de floras locales. Pp. 11-23 in E. Linares, P. Davila, F. Chiang, R. Bye, and T. S. Elias (eds), Conservacion de plantas en peligro de extincion: diferentes enfoques. Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Bowers, J. E., and S. P. McLaughlin. 1996. Flora of the Huachuca Mountains, a botanically rich and historically significant sky island in Cochise County, Arizona. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 29: 66-107.
McLaughlin, S. P., and J. E. Bowers. 1999. Diversity and affinitiess of the flora of the Sonoran Floristic Province. Pp. 12-35 in: R. H. Robichaux (ed.), Ecology of the Sonoran Desert Plants and Plant Communities. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
McLaughlin, S. P., E. L. Geiger, and J. E. Bowers. 2001. A flora of the Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch, northeastern Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science 33: 113-131.
McLaughlin, S. P. 2002. Exotic species in the western United States: putting the Sonoran Floristic Province into perspective. Pp. 47-62in: B. Tellman (ed.), Exotic species in the Sonoran Desert. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.