Illustrated Guide to Trees and Shrubs: A Handbook of the Woody Plants of the Northeastern United States and Adjacent RegionsGeared to the needs of the interested amateur and student naturalist, this book combines the handiness of a field guide with complete coverage of the area (Northeastern United States and adjacent regions). Three hundred pen-and-ink drawings by noted botanical artist Maud H. Purdy facilitate exact identification based on leaves, buds, branches, seeds and stems. |
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acorns alternate Amer aromatic axils bark base berries Black bracts Brooklyn Botanic Garden brown brts bud scales buds small bundle scars Calluna catkins ciliate clusters common commonly cult compound Crataegus dark deciduous diam diaphragmed drupe elliptic entire evergreen FAMILY Flowering fragrant glabrous glaucous gray green Ifts Japanese Large tree leaf lenticels lfts lobed long-pointed milky native natzd nearly nodes obovate odor opposite ovate pairs persistent petioles phyllotaxy pink pinnate pistillate pith prickles pubescent pubescent beneath racemes rarely resin rounded scale-like scales exposed scales showing seeds serrate serrulate sharp-pointed shining short growths shreddy shrub shrub or small simple slender small tree smooth sometimes cult stalked stem superposed teeth tendrils terminal bud lacking terminal bud present thorns tomentose toothed true terminal bud trunk usually valvate veins Viburnum whorls winter woody plants yellow yellowish