A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs: Northeastern and North-Central United States and Southeastern and South-Central Canada

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1972 - Gardening - 428 pages
All 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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ROGER TORY PETERSON, one of the world's greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars.

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