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Author Petrides, George A., author, illustrator.

Title A field guide to trees and shrubs : field marks of all trees, shrubs, and woody vines that grow wild in the Northeastern and North-Central United States and in southeastern and south-central Canada / by George A. Petrides ; illustrations by George A. Petrides (leaf and twig plates) [and] Roger Tory Peterson (flowers, fruits, silhouettes).

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1958]
©1958

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection Sperry  582.1 P448f 1958    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xxix, 431 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series The Peterson field guide series ; 11
Peterson field guide series ; 11.
Note Includes index.
Contents How to use this book -- Tree silhouettes -- Section I. Plants with needle-like or scale-like leaves: mostly evergreens. Conifers with needles in bundles: pines and larches ; Conifers with flat needles ; Conifers with four-sided needles: spruces ; Conifers with scale-like or three-sided leaves ; Needle-bearing, non-cone-bearing evergreens -- Section II. Broad-leaved plants with opposite compound leaves. Vines with opposite compound leaves ; Shrubs with opposite compound leaves ; Trees with opposite feather-compound leaves: ashes, ashleaf maple, and corktree ; Trees with opposite fan-compound leaves: buckeyes -- Section III. Broad-leaved plants with opposite simple leaves. Low creeping and trailing shrubs (and American mistletoe) ; Vines with opposite simple leaves (includes climbing honeysuckles) ; Honeysuckles: erect shrubs ; Dogwoods ; Miscellaneous plants with opposite leaves not toothed ; Plants with opposite or whorled heart-shaped leaves that are not toothed ; Miscellaneous shrubs with opposite toothed leaves ; Viburnums ; Maples -- Section IV. Broad-leaved plants with alternate compound leaves. Prickly brambles ; Erect thorny trees and shrubs ; Thornless trifoliates ; Sumacs ; Walnuts and similar trees ; Hickories ; Miscellaneous species with alternate once-compound leaves ; Thornless plants with leaves twice-compound -- Section V. Broad-leaved plants with alternate simple leaves. Low creeping or trailing shrubs ; Greenbriers ; Grapes (and Ampelopsis and Boston ivy) ; Moonseeds ; Miscellaneous vines climbing without tendrils ; Miscellaneous upright thorny plants ; Hawthorns ; Thorny currant and gooseberries ; Thornless currants ; Miscellaneous plants with fan-lobed leaves ; Plants with leaves fan-lobed or fan-veined -- Plates -- Section V. (continued) Poplars ; Oaks ; Magnolias Elms and water-elm ; Ironwood, hornbeam, hazelnuts, and alders ; Birches ; Cherries and thornless plums ; Juneberries ; Willows ; Miscellaneous plants with three bundle scars ; Miscellaneous plants with three (or more) bundle scars ; Spireas ; Hollies ; Blueberries ; Huckleberries, bilberries, and relatives ; Azaleas ; Evergreen heaths ; Non-evergreen heaths with toothed leaves ; Miscellaneous plants with one bundle scar -- Appendixes: A. Winter key to plants with opposite leaf scars ; B. Winter key to plants with alternate leaf scars ; C. Key to trees in leafy condition ; D. Key to trees in leafless condition ; E. Plant relationships ; F. The meaning of botanical terms ; G. Table for converting inches to millimeters.
Summary Field marks of all trees, shrubs, and woody vines that grow wild in the northeastern and north-central United States and in south-eastern and south-central Canada.
Subject Trees -- North America.
Shrubs -- North America.
Climbing plants.
Trees -- North America.
Climbing plants. (OCoLC)fst00864319
Shrubs. (OCoLC)fst01117866
Trees. (OCoLC)fst01155984
North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
Added Author Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996, illustrator.

 
    
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