About the Author

KARL MCKNIGHT is a professor of biology at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. He is the author of Common Mosses of the Northeast and Appalachians.

JOSEPH ROHRER taught a variety of botany classes at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for over 30 years.

KIRSTEN MCKNIGHT WARD is a botanist, artist, designer, and educator. She lives with her husband and daughter in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

KENT MCKNIGHT was a world-renowned mycologist and the author of the first edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms.