Main entry:

Petrides, George A., author, illustrator.

Title & Author:

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:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1958]
©1958

Description:

xxix, 431 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm

Series:

The Peterson field guide series ; 11

Notes:
Includes index.
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 United States Identification.
Trees Canada, Eastern Identification.
Trees United States Pictorial works.
Trees Canada, Eastern Pictorial works.
Shrubs North America.
Climbing plants North America.
Trees.
Trees North America.
Climbing plants.
Arbres Amérique du Nord.
Arbustes Amérique du Nord.
Plantes grimpantes.
Arbres.
Arbres États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Plantes grimpantes Amérique du Nord.
vines.
trees (woody plants)
Shrubs
Trees Identification.
North America.
Amérique du Nord.
Eastern Canada
United States

Form/genre:

field guides.
Field guides
Pictorial works
Guides d'identification.

Added entries:

Peterson, Roger Tory, 1908-1996, illustrator.
Peterson field guide series ; 11.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325269
Call No.: 325269
Copy: 1
Status: Available