Petrides, George A. A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs.

Title A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Field Marks of All Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines That Grow Wild in the Northeastern and North-central United States and in Southeastern and South-central Canada Author Petrides, George A. Series Peterson Field Guides Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston Year 1972 ISBN 0395175798 (Paperback) Illustrations Petrides, George A. & Roger Tory Peterson (line drawings) Table of Contents Contents Bibliography none Index Index Pages 428 Categories field guide, trees, shrubs, woody vines, United States, Canada, identification, nature, plants, science, biology, ecology Language English (en), Latin (la)

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If you want to know how to identify all the trees in this area; their common and scientific names; their ecological importance; and the fascinating uses for their wood, bark, leaves, and fruit, A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs gives you all this and much more for the northeastern and north-central United States and southeastern and south-central Canada.

• 646 species identified—all the wild trees, shrubs, and woody vines in an area north to Newfoundland, south to North Carolina and Tennessee, and west to the Dakotas and Kansas
• Detailed recognition features: shape and arrangement of leaves, height, color, bark texture, flowering season, and fruit
• Diagrammatic illustrations of leaves and buds for ready comparison in the field
• Flower drawings, tree silhouettes, illustrated glossary of specialized terms—all the detailed information you expect from a Peterson Field Guide
• Species arranged in 5 easily identified groups, then broken down into botanical key format fro simplified recognition

See and/or order this title at Amazon.com:

• 2nd edition, Paperback, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1998
• 2nd edition, Paperback, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1975

See and/or order this title at Amazon.co.uk:

• 2nd edition, Paperback, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1998

No longer available (but if you send me an e-mail message, I'll try to find you a used copy):

• 2nd edition, Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1972, ISBN 0395136512