A Field Guide to Eastern Trees: Eastern United States and Canada, Including the Midwest Author: George A. Petrides | Language: English | ISBN:
0395904552 | Format: EPUB
A Field Guide to Eastern Trees: Eastern United States and Canada, Including the Midwest Description
Find what you're looking for with Peterson Field Guides—their field-tested visual identification system is designed to help you differentiate thousands of unique species accurately every time.
This field guide features detailed descriptions of 455 species of trees native to eastern North America, including the Midwest and the South. The 48 color plates, 11 black-and-white plates, and 26 text drawings show distinctive details needed for identification. Color photographs and 266 color range maps accompany the species descriptions.
- Series: Peterson Field Guides (Book 11)
- Paperback: 448 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (July 15, 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0395904552
- ISBN-13: 978-0395904558
- Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.6 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Peterson's has about the best pocket-sized tree guide out there (I much prefer it to the Audubon guide, which I also own), but I won't kid with you - identifying trees is hard. It takes time, patience, and a keen eye. Just looking at leaves is usually not enough to make a positive identification. Depending on the species and the time of year, you may also have to examine bark, the twigs, flowers, buds, or fruits. The best part of the Peterson guide is that it has summer and winter keys in the back - don't ignore them just because the keys have no pictures! They are invaluable. Without them, you might find yourself lost among the many pages of illustrations. Perhaps the best resource to supplement this guide would be contact with an expert on the flora of your area - perhaps a naturalist at a local park or a forestry professor at a nearby university.
By Shawn Moses
I use other field guides for browsing, but this is the guide I use when I go out into the field and I really want to identify things. It uses a very clear key to subdivide trees into specific groups (like needleleaf/broadleaf or opposit-leaved/alternate-leaved), narrowing down the choices and making identification much easier. The drawings are very clear, and as a bonus, you get a tiny map for each species identifying its exact geographical range. Highly recommended.
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