A Field Guide to Texas Trees

by Benny J. Simpson

Book Overview

This descriptive handbook helps you identify the more than 220 trees considered to be native to Texas, plus the 30 species that have become naturalized. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877193576
• ISBN13: 9780877193579
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

An excellent survey of trees and their natural ranges

Simpson's field guide is a comprehensive encyclopedic guide to trees "naturally" occuring in Texas. For each species, it provides a shaded map of its counties of occurrence, as well as one page summary of the tree's characteristics and habitats. The color plates (one for each species)are helpful but small. My only complaint is that the omitted general illustrations of the leaf, silhouette, flowers, and fruits of the various trees would have been of great usefullness to the amateur naturalist. Thus, this book must be paired with another to be of maximum utility in the field.