Trees of Utah and the Intermountain West: A Guide to Identification and UseMichael Kuhns has compiled a comprehensive guide to virtually every native and introduced tree species from the eastern slope of the Rockies west to the Sierra Nevada, and from north-central Oregon, the Salmon River region of Idaho, and Yellowstone south to the Grand Canyon and northern New Mexico. Included in the guide are simple and easy-to-use identification and classification keys, which are accompanied by hundreds of illustrations that introduce basic information on tree anatomy, climate/hardiness zones, and the individual species. |
Contents
List of Included Trees | 23 |
Species Descriptions | 31 |
Tree Selection Guide | 243 |
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Trees of Utah and the Intermountain West: A Guide to Identification and Use Michael Richard Kuhns No preview available - 1998 |
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30 Utah acorn Bark beneath capsule catkin clusters cottonwood Crataegus crown cultivars dark green deciduous diameter diffuse-porous dioecious Dirr dogwood drought drupe eastern U.S. enlarged evergreen fairly fall color Female flower Flowering shoot Flowers/Fruit foliage Fruit a samara genus glabrous gray gray-brown growth rings hairy hardiness zones hardy heartwood high soil pH Intermediate shade tolerance juniper Landscape lateral buds Leaf leaflets legume lenticels lobed Magnolia Male flower maple Acer mature moist Monoecious native to Utah Needles northern oak Quercus Otis ovate petiole pine Pinus pink planted in Utah pome Populus Prunus purple red-brown ridges ring-porous Rocky Mountain juniper round samara sapwood scales scaly seed cone serrate margin serviceberry Shade intolerant showy shrubby shrubs small tree soil pH species spruce stalk stems Sudworth terminal bud tree native Twig with bud Twigs slender Twigs/Buds Utah wide willow Winter twig Wood woody yellow Zones