A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Northeastern and North-Central United States and Southeastern and South-Central CanadaAll the wild trees, shrubs, and woody vines in the area north to Newfoundland, south to North Carolina and Tennessee, and west to the Dakotas and Kansas are described in detail. Accounts of 646 species include shape and arrangement of leaves, height, color, bark texture, flowering season, and fruit. Clear, accurate drawings illustrate leaves, flowers, buds, tree silhouettes, and other characteristics. |
Contents
Tree Silhouettes | 1 |
Plants with Needlelike or Scalelike Leaves | 15 |
Conifers with 4sided Needles Spruces | 23 |
Broadleaved Plants with Opposite Compound | 46 |
85822 | 69 |
Broadleaved Plants with Alternate Com | 122 |
Broadleaved Plants with Alternate Simple | 168 |
A Winter Key to Plants with Opposite Leaf Scars | 375 |
Key to Trees in Leafy Condition | 390 |
E Plant Relationships | 401 |
G Table for Converting Inches to Millimeters | 410 |
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Acorn cup AZALEA BEARBERRY BIRCH branchlets bud scales bundle scars CHERRY clusters cones dark diameter DWARF Dwarf Willow eaten egg-shaped elliptic end buds End buds false End buds true evergreen fine-toothed Florida and Texas Flowers small foliage Fruits red Fruits small Georgia Grape gray gray-hairy green hairy beneath heart-shaped Height HONEYSUCKLE Illinois illus JOHNSWORT JUNEBERRY Labrador Leaf bases leaf scars leaf shape leaf undersides leaflets leafstalks leathery lobed long-pointed Manitoba MAPLE Michigan Michx Minnesota Missouri narrow needles Newfoundland Nova Scotia Ohio Older bark Ontario PINE pith plants Plate PLUM Poison-ivy prickles Quebec Recognition reddish resin-dots ridged ruffed ruffed grouse scaly scars single seeds shreddy shrub shrub or small side buds Similar species slender small tree smooth soils spur branches stalks stems stipules swamps tall teeth tendrils thickets thornless thorns Trunk bark twig tips Twigs hairless usually Viburnum vine Virginia whitish WILLOW Salix winter woods woody woolly yellow