New York State Trees & Wildflowers: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Plants

New York State stretches from the south shore of Lake Ontario over the Adirondack Mountains and southeast to the Atlantic coast, giving it an especially high diversity of plants. The rose is the state flower, and it is one of over 3,000 species that grow in the Empire State’s mixed forests, pine forests, grasslands, rivers, freshwater marshes, and salt marshes. For many people, plants represent a major aspect of a landscape’s character, so it helps to get acquainted with the most representa...