The Illustrated Book of Trees: The Comprehensive Field Guide to More Than 250 Trees of Eastern North AmericaWilliam Carey Grimm's classic Illustrated Book of Trees has been the authority on eastern North American tree identification for over 40 years. Now available in a completely updated edition, this book includes recently introduced species and incorporates changes in taxonomy, nomenclature, and geographic range, with distinguishing characteristics and similar-species comparisons for quick and accurate identification. Readers will be able to easily identify a species by observing the leaves, flowers, and fruits of a tree in summer or its twigs, buds, and bark in winter. Written in a straightforward, nonscientific language for beginning botanists of any age. A glossary of terms & a complete index are included.Completely revised and updated More than 30 new species described and illustrated |
Contents
The Study of Trees 125 | 1 |
Distribution of Trees in Eastern North America | 97 |
Species of Trees | 106 |
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1/4 inch long acorn American elm apically Appalachian Mountains attaining a height base big-tooth aspen birch Branch with leaves Branch with mature branchlets broadly bud and leaf bud scales bundle scars Carolina cherry chinkapin oak clusters coastal plain cones conspicuously dark green deciduous Detail of bud drooping drupe eastern eastern hemlock feet in height Florida flowers glabrous glabrous or nearly glaucous gray greenish hairs hickory inches in diameter inches long inches wide lateral buds leaf blades leaf margins leaf scars leaflets lenticels lobes lustrous maple mature leaves northern northern red oak nuts OAK Q oblong obovate odor ovate ovoid paler petals petioles pine pistillate pith plants red spruce reddish brown ridges rounded scaly seeds shrub small tree southern species stalks stamens stout Summer swamps teeth terminal bud Texas thin tips toothed trunk diameter Twigs slender usually veins Virginia pine white-tailed deer Winter twig wood yellow yellowish