The Sibley Guide to Trees

I purchased this guide book for an extensive trip to the Southwest. Like Sibley’s Guide to Birds, the illustrations in this guide to trees are unparalleled. The leaves, bark, nuts, etc, are beautifully illustrated. I have not seen any other guide that comes close to this. The illustrations are in color and give great detail in some cases showing you both the young bark and older bark, since younger tree bark can look very different. Illustrations of fruits, nuts, flowers, leaves, are all in color and consistently gives you multiple images so you can see variations. Additionally, the distribution maps showing where species occur are nicely done, and the written descriptions for identification are concise and clear. Thank David Allen Sibley for giving us a great field guide to trees.

This is an awesome plethora of information. I will cherish it forever.

This is an amazing book. It is not the most comprehensive guide, but covering more the most common half of tree species in North America, it would be quite unwieldy to tote around if Sibley were aiming at completeness. Sibley has arranged the trees by families, which is quite convenient for narrowing down what you are trying to identify. However, what makes this book such a fantastic companion is how he can pack the most relevant information, mainly in pictorial form, about each tree in a page or two. The illustrations of leaves (often both sides, some in fall colors), bark, twigs, seeds, nuts, acorns, flowers, etc. are geared to helping make a rapid identification. By using pictures, instead of lengthy descriptions, you can instantly compare the tree you are looking at to the species in the book. If you are interested about the trees in your back yard, the local park, or hiking through the forest, this guide can help you find out what you are looking at. Knowing the name, can then be the spring board to find out more our leafy friends.

Useful, beautiful, full of great info and makes a lovely coffee table book too. I bought it for my daughter and she loves it!

As an Australian recently arrived in the USA, this book has been my savior. I pride myself on my knowledge of the Australian flora and fauna, and I was becoming increasingly frustrated by my ignorance of the trees that adorn my patch of Kentucky. I have looked at a lot of reference works on the American flora, but many are intended for the home library, not the backpack or glovebox, and those which are not are often too limited to provide anything other than a general idea of what one is looking at. "The Sibley Guide To Trees" bridges the gap. I had not long been in this country when I bought " The Sibley Guide to Birds ", which I use to confirm and expand on identifications I have made using my Falcon " The Easy Bird Guide: Eastern Region: A Quick Identification Guide for All Birders (Falcon Guide) ". David Sibley's "Birds" set the standard for me and his "Guide To Trees" is of the same caliber. Sibley provides enough initial detail to narrow the field when you're seeking to name a particular tree, but he limits the use of scientific terms only to those necessary to identification, always welcomed if you are turned off by references that appear too technical. Clear, annotated illustrations of flowers, fruit and leaves along with tree silhouettes and in some cases branch and twig details are great refinements - as are the illustrations of the fall colors displayed by some species, these could be the clincher in identifying members of large families. A home-owner planning a native garden would also find this book a useful tool. Not only are average and maximum heights given, but the additional information will tell her how the garden might look throughout the year, leaf-color in fall, tree shape in winter and so on. One small thing stopped me from giving this book 5 stars. I would like to see a symbol used to identify naturalized garden escapes and another for introduced species. Even so, I would rank "The Sibley Guide To Trees" at 4.5 stars if it were possible to do so.

This book is an excellent reference for learning to identify trees. Very well illustrated in color, showing leaf shapes, bark types, and views of the entire tree. The author also has maps of north America showing which regions various species of trees grow in. This book is virtually an encyclopedia of knowledge about trees of north America.

I love this style of book, wish it came in hardcover

TELLS YOU EVERYTHING ABOUT TREES THAT YOU PUT EVERYONE KNOW, THE ORIGINS DOWN TO HOW TO IDENTIFY THEM LOVE THE HARD COVER AND I’M NOT SURE ABOUT ANYBODY ELSE, BUT MINE SMELLED LIKE CEDAR WHEN IT ARRIVED

Perfeito, bem elaborado.

This is an excellent identification manual for the trees. This book clearly shows all parts of the trees, including not only the bark and a selection of the leaves showing the shape variations, but also the flowers and the fruits, seed pods, cones, nuts, etc. Mostly my other books show only the leaves and the trunk. This makes it much easier to identify those I have seen and photographed. A good book for naturalists and anyone who wants to get to know the trees.

This is a wonderful book for identifying trees in North America. It is very detailed and comprehensive except for certain species native to Florida. If you live trees and want to identify those around you, this is the book for you.

What a great book this is. Page after page of beautiful, fully coloured drawings and detailed descriptions of trees. A true cornucopia for tree lovers.

Awesome info about trees