Peterson Field Guide (R) to Trees and Shrubs

by George A. Petrides

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395175798
• ISBN13: 9780395175798
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Christmas Gift

This was a gift for my daughter, per her request. It is an excellent guide for the person who wants general knowledge or the botony student!!

Learn to love trees! Or learn about the trees you love.

This is an wonderful guide to trees and one of the few that also includes shrubs. The format of keys and plates is very clear and an excellent introduction to the use of taxonomic keys.

the one

No mere Peterson field guide, this scholarly work is a concise encyclopedia of all the trees native to the northeastern United States, with descriptions that can truly be used to tell them apart (a unique feat). Belongs in the backpack of any hiker who wants to learn trees. Fits in a half-gallon Ziploc. Remember you need a magnifying glass and a sharp knife to use the book properly.

Best for field work

As a wetland delineator in PA, this book proves invaluable for field identification of trees, shrubs, and vines. Especially useful is are the keys for identification of these plants in winter when leaves and fruiting bodies are non-existant. I have several other tree books for reference, but they rarely are worth carting along in the field now that I have this book. I highly recommend it.

Definitive work for identification

Petrides' work is the most accurate I have found in tree identification. Color pictures are no substitute for a close-up examination of the stems, leaves and fruit of trees and shrubs. It is considered the definitive source for the John Burroughs Naturalist Award bestowed by the Buckeye Council of the Boy Scouts of America only upon those capable of sight identification of approximately 600 trees, shrubs and wildflowers.