For courses in Dendrology, ForestBiology, Field Biology, and Field Botany.

This unique book provides students with a guide based on minimal technical language and excellent photography for identification of 372 tree species–listed alphabetically–common to forests of the Eastern United States. For each tree species, their individual form characteristics, habitat and ecology, multiple common names, similar species, derivation of the binomial name, wood uses, wildlife uses, landscape uses, and historical uses are covered.