Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Trees of western North America / Richard Spellenberg, Christopher J. Earle, and Gil Nelson ; illustrations by David More ; edited by Amy K. Hughes.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton field guidesPublication details: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 560 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780691145792
  • 0691145792
  • 9780691145808 (pbk.)
  • 0691145806 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QK133 .S648 2014
Summary: Covers 630 species, presents all the native and naturalized trees of the western United States and Canada as far east as the Great Plains, illustrates important visual details with range maps that provide a thumbnail view of distribution for each native species; gives scientific and common names, taxonomy, information on the most recently naturalized species, and also contains a key to leaves, an introduction to tree identification, forest ecology, and plant classification and structure.

Includes index.

Covers 630 species, presents all the native and naturalized trees of the western United States and Canada as far east as the Great Plains, illustrates important visual details with range maps that provide a thumbnail view of distribution for each native species; gives scientific and common names, taxonomy, information on the most recently naturalized species, and also contains a key to leaves, an introduction to tree identification, forest ecology, and plant classification and structure.

Powered by Koha