Extending through the Carolinas, Georgia, and eastern Tennessee, the southern Appalachian Mountains are home to a rich diversity of plant life. This field guide contains detailed information on 130 genera and 280 species of trees, shrubs and woody vines - all but the very rarest species - including those found among the popular Blue Ridge Parkway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Based on more than 5000 plant specimens collected by the authors in a decade of hiking that totalled more than 5400 miles, this guide covers all the common native species, and many of the rare ones, that grow not only in the forests but also in the high-mountain meadows, on heath balds, in long-abandoned fields, and along fence rows and roadsides. In addition to the plant descriptions, the guide contains illustrated keys to both summer and winter traits - that is, twigs, bark, and winter buds, as well as leaves - so that readers can collect and identify specimens at any time of year. From the birch and alder, to the oak and Carolina silverbell, from the mountain-laurel and American holly, to the mountain pepperbush, chokeberry, buffalo nut and yellowroot, the trees, shrubs and woody vines described here include many plants unique to the southern mountains as well as those found elsewhere in eastern North America. This field guide should be of interest to hikers, campers, fishermen, hunters, tourists, and all those who, for whatever reason, enjoy the southern Appalachian Mountains.
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Although the title suggests this is a guide to plants in a limited geographic range, the plants here are found in many areas of eastern North America, and the book can therefore be used as a guide for this larger area. But for naturalists visiting the beautiful area of the Southern Appalachians, it is a detailed and useful guide to the amazing variety of trees, shrubs, and woody vines growing there.
(American Reference Books Annual )The finest book on tree identification I have ever seen... Magnificent pen and ink drawings... [this book] will be of interest to anyone who loves the outdoors.
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The best field guide for the knowledgalble,
This review is from: A Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Southern Appalachians (Hardcover)
I agree that this field guide is for the knowledgable, but if you take the time to learn the termanology, you will find there is no better book. It is not nearly as technical as "Guide to Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge" yet far exceeds that standards of Peterson's or Audubon.
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This review is from: A Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Southern Appalachians (Paperback)
As a city boy just relocating to the country I was looking for a user friendly book to identify the native plants on our land. This book is written by and for much more knowledgable people. While there is a long and detailed introduction I don't have the knack or patients to work thorough it.
The illustrations are pen and ink black and white drawings, and are barely helpful.
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The keys, descriptions, and illustrations in this field guide are based mainly on the more than five thousand plant specimens I collected between 1980 and 1991. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Summer Key, Winter Key, Yancey Cos, Native of China, Native of Europe, Staff-tree Family, Dogwood Family, Lily Family, Mulberry Family, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pine Family, Witch-hazel Family, Bignonia Family, Buckthorn Family, Custard-apple Family, Elm Family, Figwort Family, Ginseng Family, Heath Family, Holly Family, Horse-chestnut Family, Laurel Family, Linden Family, Magnolia Family New!
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The keys, descriptions, and illustrations in this field guide are based mainly on the more than five thousand plant specimens I collected between 1980 and 1991. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Summer Key, Winter Key, Yancey Cos, Native of China, Native of Europe, Staff-tree Family, Dogwood Family, Lily Family, Mulberry Family, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pine Family, Witch-hazel Family, Bignonia Family, Buckthorn Family, Custard-apple Family, Elm Family, Figwort Family, Ginseng Family, Heath Family, Holly Family, Horse-chestnut Family, Laurel Family, Linden Family, Magnolia Family New!
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- Great Smoky Mountains (Natural Wonders) by Jason Cooper in Front Matter
- Trees and Shrubs of Virginia by Oscar Wand Gupton in Back Matter
- Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas by Albert E. Radford in Back Matter
- Muenscher's Keys to Woody Plants by Edward A. Cope in Back Matter
- Appalachian Wildflowers by Thomas E. Hemmerly in Back Matter
- Illustrated Book of Trees: The Comprehensive Field Guide to More than 250 Trees of Eastern North America, Revised Edition by William Carey Grimm in Back Matter
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