Trees in Your Pocket: A Guide to Trees of the Upper Midwest (Bur Oak Guide)

Rosburg, Thomas

ISBN 10: 1609381238 ISBN 13: 9781609381233

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, 2012

Synopsis

Valued for their lumber, their shade, and the beauty of their flowers and foliage as well as the nuts that nourish wildlife and humans alike, trees play important economic, ecological, and aesthetic roles in our lives. From honey and black locusts to white and chinkapin oaks to yellow and river birches, Trees in Your Pocket gives us identification and natural history information for about forty prominent deciduous species found in the Upper Midwest states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. Botanist Tom Rosburg provides diagnostic color photographs of leaves, acorns and other fruits, and bark along with descriptions of leaves, fruits, and measurements of blades. The composition, arrangement, shape, and margin of leaves are most important for tree identification. Fruits can help confirm identification of species with similar leaves. The bark of a tree can be very helpful for identifying some species; as a tree ages, older bark

About this title

About the Author

Thomas Rosburg, a professor of biology at Drake University, has received thePrairie Advocate Award from the Iowa Prairie Network, the? Governor’s Iowa Environmental Excellence Award, the ?Loess Hills Preservation Society Special Recognition Award, and the Iowa Chapter of the Sierra Club’s Environmental Educator Award. He is the photographer for the second editions of both Wildflowers of the Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest (Iowa, 2009) and Wildflowers and Other Plants of Iowa Wetlands (Iowa, forthcoming). 

Edition details

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1609381238
• ISBN 13: 9781609381233
• Binding: Map
• Edition number: 1