Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of the Great Lakes Region

Now in its tenth decade of publication, Michigan Trees is written and illustrated in a style that appeals to botanists, ecologists, and amateur naturalists alike, Michigan Trees gives readers everything they need to know for identifying the trees of the Great Lakes.

Tree identification is a matter of knowing what characteristics to look for and where the tree is growing--its home place in the landscape. Elegant line drawings, contrasting key characters, and vegetative keys to genera and species all encourage reliable year-round identification. This updated edition adds thirteen tree species, including three of the rarest: pumpkin ash, shumard oak, and swamp cottonwood.

About the Authors:
Burton V. Barnes is Stephen H. Spurr Professor of Forestry in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. He is best known for his love of field teaching and his research and publications in forest and landscape ecology.

Warren H. Wagner, Jr., was a world authority on ferns. He had been Professor Emeritus of Botany and Natural Resources at the University of Michigan and a member of the National Academy of Sciences before his death at the age of eighty in 2000.

456 pgs., 125 drawings, 7 tables, 3 maps

Published by the University of Michigan Press