I am looking for a good tree key and am not happy with the ones I have
looked at so far. I am interested in the area of eastern US and
Canada - mainly, I want the book to cover Ohio, but wider is fine.

When I took a basic botany course at Ohio State circa 1966, I had to
buy a tree key for the course and it was great. Unfortunately, I did
not keep it and I do not recall its name/author. I scanned OSU's
booklist for botany courses this coming term and no tree key book is
listed.

If anyone can point me to a really REALLY good one, I'd appreciate it.
I want a "decision-based" key, not the kind that I have been able to
locate so far.

Here are the five books that I have looked at so far.

The Tree Identification book by Symonds is the best so far, but I'd
really like a more step-by-step decision-based approach that drills
down to very specifics, including bud scars.

Field Guide to the Trees of Britain, Europe and North America

Ohio Trees by Dean

The tree key: a guide to identification in garden by Ed...

Trees: a guide to familiar American Trees by Zim

Thanks in advance.

This site has an online tree key:

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/

Here are some other choices:

Elbert Little's National Audubon Society Field Guide to Trees: Eastern
Region:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books


George Petrides's A Field Guide to Trees and Shrubs : Northeastern and
north-central United States and southeastern and south-central Canada
(The Peterson Field Guide Series):

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...books&n=507846

William Harlow's Fruit Key and Twig Key to Trees and Shrubs
is dated but inexpensive:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books

William Trelease's Winter Botany: An Identification Guide to Native
Trees and Shrubs
is another older, but economical guide:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books


Arthur Viertel's Trees, Shrubs and Vines; A Pictorial Guide to the
Ornamental Woody Plants of the Northern United States Exclusive of
Conifers

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books



David R. Hershey


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I am looking for a good tree key and am not happy with the ones I have
looked at so far. I am interested in the area of eastern US and
Canada - mainly, I want the book to cover Ohio, but wider is fine.

When I took a basic botany course at Ohio State circa 1966, I had to
buy a tree key for the course and it was great. Unfortunately, I did
not keep it and I do not recall its name/author. I scanned OSU's
booklist for botany courses this coming term and no tree key book is
listed.

If anyone can point me to a really REALLY good one, I'd appreciate it.
I want a "decision-based" key, not the kind that I have been able to
locate so far.

Here are the five books that I have looked at so far.

The Tree Identification book by Symonds is the best so far, but I'd
really like a more step-by-step decision-based approach that drills
down to very specifics, including bud scars.

Field Guide to the Trees of Britain, Europe and North America

Ohio Trees by Dean

The tree key: a guide to identification in garden by Ed...

Trees: a guide to familiar American Trees by Zim

Thanks in advance.