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Trees and Shrubs of Minnesota (The Complete Guide to Species Identification)
Product Type: Book
Product Price: $59.95
Manufacturer: Univ Of Minnesota Press
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Description
With more than two hundred tree, shrub, and woody vine species in Minnesota, anyone with an interest in the outdoors has likely encountered an unfamiliar plant and wondered about its name, origin, characteristics, and habitat. In this new identification resource, the state’s foremost botanist and endangered species expert Welby R. Smith provides authoritative, accessible, and up-to-date information on the state’s native and naturalized woody plant species.
This fully illustrated resource features:
• Easy identification: more than one thousand color photographs of fruit, flowers, bark, and leaves for every species, as well as more than one hundred illustrations by botanical artist Vera Ming Wong
• Distribution maps: more than five hundred maps, including state and North American range maps
• Interesting background: descriptions of each species’ habitat, natural history, and ecology, which provide context to the entries
• Comprehensive coverage: includes all native and naturalized trees, shrubs, and woody vines in Minnesota from Abies balsamea to Zanthozylum americanum.
Written for everyone from scientists and environmentalists to teachers and people interested in horticulture and gardening, Trees and Shrubs of Minnesota will engage and educate anyone with a curiosity about the natural world.
Welby R. Smith is a botanist for the Division of Ecological Resources at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. He is the author of Orchids of Minnesota (Minnesota, 1993).
Reviews
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-04-01
Summary: "Awesome reference"
This is a beautifully done reference book; great pictures, very informative and easy to navigate.
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2009-11-18
Summary: "Trees And Shrubs Of Minnesota"
I never expected a book such as this to contain such a wide and complete description of the trees and shrubs in my state of Minnesota. I can't believe it is so comprehensive.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-09-19
Summary: "Excellent work and great news for botanists in the Upper Midwest"
This is a terrific bargain and a resource work that will remain useful for years. The delights of this book have been mentioned by the other reviews. I will only add here that the series of all life-size, black and white drawings of all the willows is particularly useful in working through this difficult genus, and is not found anywhere else. Usually different scales of drawings are used on the same or adjoining pages making comparisons more difficult. The side color tabs are clever and a quick way to find specific sections of this large work.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-09-16
Summary: "Maybe the best tree and shrub guide ever"
This book is simply fantastic. It has photographs and natural history information for those who want more than just a dichotomous key; and it has superb, technically accurate keys for the serious botanist. It excells in both aspects. The keys are detailed and more precise and clear than most other keys, and these characters are augmented in the descriptions. The book does an especially good job of differentiating diffcult or commonly mistaken sets of species, such as how to tell American, showy, and European mountain-ash apart; Canada versus American plum; woodbine versus Virginia creeper, and other such groups. The treatment of difficult groups such as Amelanchier, Crataegus, and Rubus is excellent and was not taken lightly.
The photos in this book are superb and must have required enormous effort and organization to acquire. I was happy to read the author's bold statement that his pictures were taken on slide film (bold because film is routinely mocked today by photo-gearhead amateurs). Sadly, since the takeover of nature photography by digital cameras, the average quality of photos published in books has been seriously compromised, and this author avoided that bandwagon and put quality first.
The book was put together by someone who loves and KNOWS the trees and shrubs of his region. It is of the highest quality in every way.
The only thing I don't like about the book is its organization. Alphabetical by scientific name of the genus makes related groups of plants scattered in random places throughout the book. Standard taxonomic order would be much more useful. Casual users who might benefit from this alphabetization are not familiar with the Latin names anyways, so it is of no use to them.
I found it rather odd that this supposedly inclusive book did not include some shrubs that are found growing wild in Minnesota. Elaeagnus umbellata, a large shrub definitely found growing wild in Minnesota, is not included. Over the years, hundreds of frustrated users will likely puzzle over this shrub. More strangely, no barberries are included, even though a PhD thesis was done on the distribution of Berberis vulgaris in the state and recorded them in nearly every county. At least two barberry species are widespread in the wild in Minnesota.
I was also shocked and disappointed that the author parroted the statement that bitternut hickory nuts are not eaten by wildlife, or are generally disliked. Although cited by the author to another source, this completely false and preposterous idea has been floating around the ecological literature for at least 50 years. It needs to stop somewhere, and should have long ago been discredited. Utter nonsense, based on no science or even empirical observation whatsoever. Bitternut hickory nuts are highly preferred by all kinds of nut-eating wildlife, from black bears and deer to deer mice and squirrels, and this is exceedingly easy to verify. (Am I really the only botanist who hunts squirrels?) The tannin content of bitternuts is far lower than that of any North American acorn, yet acorns are widely eaten - so why would the tannin content cause wildlife not to eat bitternuts? They are far HIGHER in calories, and in protein to tannin ratio, than acorns. And scarcely different than other hickory nuts, except for the thinner shells, which is advantageous to wildlife. Give me a break, my fellow ecologists, please stop and think (or just observe) before you repeat this nonsense!
But that's only a tiny part of this book. It's a great book. If you like trees and shrubs, if you want to study them, this should be the first choice of any Midwesterner.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-08-29
Summary: "Incredible"
If you love the state of Minnesota and it's trees and shrubs, you'll love this book. The pictures are tremendous as are the descriptions.