A Field Guide to Western Trees: Western United States and CanadaThis handbook covers all the native trees of the western side of the United States and Canada, plus those introduced and now commonly found in the region. The 400 species featured live in habitats ranging from mountains and deserts to grasslands. The most usual landscape trees are also included. |
Contents
How to Use This Book | 1 |
Conebearing Trees with Needlelike or Scalelike | 18 |
Broadleaved Trees with Opposite Compound | 75 |
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A Field Guide to Western Trees: Western United States and Canada George A. Petrides Limited preview - 1998 |
Common terms and phrases
Acorns ALDER Ariz Baja California blunt bracts branchlets brown Buckthorn bud scales bundle scars Calif California Scrub Oak canyons catkins Cercocarpus CHERRY coastal Cypress dark deciduous deer diameter 1-2 DOGWOOD Douglas-firs drooping eaten ELDERBERRY elevation end buds evergreen fine-toothed flat fleshy foliage Fruit pods glands gray green greenish hairy beneath Height to 20 JUNIPER leaf bases Leaf edges leaf scars Leafstalks leathery lens lobed long-pointed MAPLE mature Mexican Mexican Pinyon Mexico minor leaflets mountains narrow Native Americans needles Oak Pl Pacific pairs Pine pith plant Plate Ponderosa Pine prickly Rocky seeds shiny short-pointed shreddy shrubby Similar species slender slopes small tree smooth soils sometimes Species and remarks SPRUCE spur branches stalks SUMAC teeth Texas thorns tiny tips toothed TREES WITH ALTERNATE Trunk bark Twigs Twigs hairless Twigs hairy usually veins western Western Redcedar whitish wide WILLOW winged woody yellow YUCCA