Shows that the woody plants can be identified to their dormant state, sometimes more easily than when they are green and flowering.

Designed especially for winter use and featuring almost six hundred illustrations, this taxonomic guide describes some nine hundred plant species by their twig, bud, and bark characteristics. All the trees, shrubs, and woody ground covers that grow without aid of cultivation in the Southeast are presented here, in a single reference.

A guide to identifying herbaceous weeds and wildflowers as they are found in winter in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, featuring illustrated in-depth entries on 391 species of herbaceous plants, and briefer mentions of 191 similar species.

Excerpt from Winter Botany a Companion Volume, to the Author's Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening While at the University of Wisconsin, nearly forty years ago, I became interested in the differences by which woody plants may be recognized in winter-sometimes more surely than when in flower-and learned from Willkomm's excellent but inconveniently shaped book how readily these differences may be grouped for differential purposes.' A large collection of winter twigs was accumulated subsequently at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and I owe a lasting debt of gratitude to many friends-among them the even then venerable Dr. Chapman of Florida-who collected such material for me. Willkomm's book, like other contemporary publications of its kind, was confined to the commonest deciduous trees and shrubs of northern Europe. My intention at that time was to prepare a winter manual of the trees native to the Eastern United States, and illustrations of many of these were prepared by Miss Grace E. Johnson (now Mrs. George Clifford Vieh). For a variety of reasons, this undertaking was laid aside, and her skilful and expressive drawings remain unpublished except for those picturing Acer, Carya, Juglans and Leiineria. It is a pleasure. to record that though long out of practice, Mrs. Vieh has prepared for the engraver some of the simplified drawings now published. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Winter Botany Field Guide and Key for Deciduous Plants of the Northeastern and Northcentral United States and Southeastern and Southcentral Canada (40 to 50 degree parallels) (2019) is an up to date resource for students, teachers, botanists, horticulturalists, wetland and soil scientists, environmental consultants, land surveyors and engineers, land use professionals, conservation organizations, plant nurseries, landscape architects, environmental regulators, and anyone interested in learning more about identifying deciduous woody plants in winter. It combines the features of a field guide with an integrated key. More than 250 species are covered, 243 with full color close up photographs of key botanical details including twigs, buds, leaf scars and bundle traces, stipules and fruit arrangements. The integrated field guide and key brings a simplified approach to the identification of unknown specimens in the middle of winter. Detailed coverage and key identification characteristics of willows (Salix spp.), Oaks (Quercus spp.), Ashes (Fraxinus spp.), Juneberries (Amelanchier spp.), Ericaceous spp., Currants (Ribes spp.), and more are included. The book features an easy to use key, full color photographs and a description filled text. The introductory "Winter Deciduous Woody Plant Morphology" chapter provides descriptions of the botanical characteristics of plants in winter that are used in the rest of the Field Guide and Key. Also included is a chapter titled "Top Ten Winter Botany Helpful Field Tips" which have been developed by the author over a 30 year span while working in the field during winter and teaching winter botany workshops and classes to hundreds of students.