Pocket sized, key-style field guide for identifying spring wildflowers and flower families. Area covered is US and southern Canada, east of the Rockies and north of the Smokies. Work through the key, answering a series of simple questions, to find the family the flower belongs to, and then the name of the individual species.

Flower Finder: A Guide to Identification of Spring Wild Flowers and Flower Families

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

May Theilgaard Watts

Gardening & Landscape Design

Nature Study Guild

Guide to identifying native (and some widely introduced) trees of U.S. and Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. Organized as a dichotomous key, the book leads the user through a series of simple questions about the shape or appearance of different parts of a tree. Includes 161 species. Illustrated with line drawings. The small (6" by 4") format fits in pocket or pack to take along on a hike.

Tree Finder: A Manual for Identification of Trees by their Leaves (Eastern US) (Nature Study Guides)

WATTS, May Theilgaard

Sports & Outdoors

Enjoy getting to know your trees even in winter, with this key to identifying deciduous trees (trees that lose their leaves in the winter) by looking at twigs, buds, fruits, and other features. Explains structure of twigs and shows habitat and range of native and some widely introduced trees. Illustrated with the author's line drawings.

Winter Tree Finder: A Manual for Identifying Deciduous Trees in Winter (Eastern US) (Nature Study Guides)

Watts, Tom

Black and white illustrations to identify Pacific Coast birds. Will fit in your pocket.

Pacific Coast Bird Finder: A Pocket Guide to Some Frequently Seen Birds

Science & Math

Lederer, Roger J.

Nature & Ecology

Pocket-sized guide to identifying native trees of the Rockies and Great Basin, in the U.S. and Canada, from the plains to the alpine zone. Like all the plant guides in the Finders series, this book uses a key format that leads you through a series of choices to identify the plant by its leaves, needles, and other features. Explains life zones in the Rockies. Heavily illustrated with line drawings and range maps.

Rocky Mountain Tree Finder a Manual for Identifying Rocky Mountain Trees

Biological Sciences

Guide to identifying native trees of the Pacific Coast region, from British Columbia to Baja California, by their leaves and needles. Organized as a dichotomous key, the book leads the user through a series of simple questions about the shape or appearance of different parts of a tree. Illustrated with line drawings. The small (6" by 4") format fits in pocket or pack to take along on a hike.

Pacific Coast Tree Finder: A Manual for Identifying Pacific Coast Trees (Nature Study Guides)

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Redwood Region Flower Finder

Watts, Phoebe

Sierra Flower Finder a Guide to Sierra Nevada Wildflowers

Keator, Glenn

PACIFIC INTERTIDAL LIFE By RON RUSSO - Illustrated with drawings, this guide helps naturalists identify various life forms of the intertidal zone along the Pacific coastline. Preceded by a discussion about this environment and its creatures.

Pacific Intertidal Life: A Guide to Organisms of Rocky Reefs and Tide Pools of the Pacific Coast

Russo, Ron

A guide to native ferns of Northern and central North AmericaIllustrated in 2 colors. Center stapled booklet.

Fern Finder

Anne E.

Hollowell, Barbara Hollowell

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