Winter Trees and Shrubs

This is a photographic "helper" field guide that contains photos of about 200 species of woody plants (and some conspicuous non-woody plants) found in Southern Ontario and the Northeastern part of the continent.  Since there are many excellent resources that provide detailed descriptions, I opted to focus mainly of photographs.  Each photo contains a link to the full-sized image for closeup inspection.  This guide is best used when a person already has an idea what they might be looking at, or in conjunction with another field guide where my photos can supplement the other info.  I would also recommend simply browsing through the pics when you have time and familiarizing yourself with the appearance of new species.  So far, the species are cataloged only by common name, though I plan to add a "quick find" key to use with outstanding features.  There are also some species that need to be completed.

This is a work in progress, so please don't hesitate to email me with any question, comments, or errors in the content!

The alphabetic list is online now.

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Additional resources for identification

Here is a shortlist of some other online field guides for identification.  Most of these are designed specifically for summer, but do contain some all-season info.  And, of course, they are great for summer!

Tree Identification Guide
(contains a species list and outstanding feature search function)

What Tree Is It?
(an interactive key for narrowing down options)

Trees and Shrubs of Ontario
(mainly written descriptions or summer characteristics)

Dendrology at Virginia Tech
(species list, several different methods of sorting
including those that grow in Ontario)

Ohio Trees Index
(nice-looking page with common trees, info and some pics)

Ontario Trees and Shrubs
(lots of all-season pics and descriptions)

Flora of Southern Ontario
(each species contains links to images and info on other sites;
also included ferns, fungi, etc)

Upper Peninsula Tree ID Key
(keys for winter and summer identification, as well as glossary, etc.)

Twig Key
(winter twig ID key; no visual helpers and not the easiest to use)


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