Trees of Indiana Field Guide (Tree Identification Guides) Paperback – May 11, 2006

Great for my school project! It had all the information I needed. Although I wish some of the picture were more clear. Meaning when I am identifying, some leaves are difficult to see, leaving me to go off of the description more. (pun not intended lol)

Good book, easy to use

Good book. Good size. Good pictures

These field guides are excellent resources for the novice, whether they treat of fauna like your region's birds or flora like your trees. This is because they group each specimen visually for easy location: by color for birds and by leave structure for trees.You can hardly find a better niche for getting a toehold on your Indiana backyard's critters and trees.Stan Tekiela's TREES OF INDIANA FIELD GUIDE majors on the educational. The author invests his first pages in helping you get a grip on the undifferentiated mass of green at the back of your house, mentoring you gently through leaf and needle shapes.Then two pages cover each specimen, the first to extremely well-done photography and the second to a well-organized prose description of the trees vital statistics.I moved from Costa Rica's natural bounty to the tamer environs of Indianapolis three years ago. Having mastered the birds that come to my feeders, I now turn to working out the plethora of trees that the previous stewards of our 1930s-vintage home left as the natural richness that cradles our house.Stan Tekiela's TREES OF INDIANA will be one of my guides as I do.

I have been using this guide for 2 seasons now and it has really helped me learn the trees of where I live. It is a size that is easy to carry yet it contains enough information to identify what I am seeing when out in the woods.

Excellent field guide that helped me quickly identify several different hickory species in our new yard. The info coupled with the visual aid of the pictures showing bark, seeds, etc make this book invaluable.

I was required to purchase this book in college at IU and sold it back at the end of semester for less than the price of a pencil. Five years later I bought it again and it turns out I open it up every time I am in the woods. Consider this kids when you sell your $100+ books back for less than what can buy a meal.

I bought this book for a botany class I am taking which requires us to use it to identify trees in the field with little or no instruction from the teacher.Overall, this book is a good intro guide, but it ends up not having a lot of the trees we needed to know. I wish this guide had shrubs too, but it's mostly just tree-forms.The other thing that is incredibly lacking is that this book does not show pictures of buds on the twigs, which are sometimes a very important tool for distinguishing between species of similar trees.When I've brought this and my other field guide with me, I end up using almost exclusively the other book because this one just isn't that great to me. The color pictures are nice though. The other field guide I use is Michigan Trees by Barnes, which I used in my other college botany course, and I prefer that one by quite a bit (other than that it has line drawings instead of color photos) because it includes a lot more information including info on buds, fruits, habitat, growth form, etc, and it contains waaaaay more types of woody plants including shrubs and vines.