Keywords
Plant Identification
Landscape Trees
EP510
Landscape Trees
EP510
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How to Cite
Koeser, Andrew K., Gitta Hasing, Michael G. Andreu, and Melissa H. Friedman. 2016. “How to Use a Dichotomous Key: A Tutorial Featuring 10 Common Shade Trees of the Tampa Bay Area: ENH1249/EP510, 6/2016”. EDIS 2016 (6). Gainesville, FL:12. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-ep510-2016.
Abstract
A dichotomous key is a tool used to help identify an unknown organism. This 12-page fact sheet features a key of leaf characteristics for ten common broadleaf trees in the Tampa Bay Area. Accurately navigating this series of paired, either-or choices about leaf characteristics will lead the reader to identify the correct tree from the group of ten. Written by Andrew K. Koeser, Gitta Hasing, Michael G. Andreu, and Melissa H. Friedman, and published by the Environmental Horticulture Department, June 2016.
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Andreu, M. G., E. M. Givens, and M. H. Friedman. 2013. How to Identify a Tree. For234. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fr296
Godfrey, R. K. 1988. Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines of Northern Florida and Adjacent Georgia and Alabama. Athens, GA: University of Georgia press.
Harlow, W. M. 1954. Fruit Key & Twig Key to Trees & Shrubs. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
Harrar, E. and J. G. Harrar. 1962. Guide to Southern Trees. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
Koeser, A. K., G. Hasing, M. H. Friedman, and R. B. Irving. 2015. Trees: North and Central Florida. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.
Nelson, G. 2011. The Trees of Florida. Sarasota, FL: Pineapple Press, Inc.
Rushforth, K. and C. Hollis. 2006. Field Guide to the Trees of North America. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society.
UF/IFAS Invasive Plants Working Group (UF/IFAS IPWG). 2015. UF/IFAS Assessment of Non-Native Plants in Florida's Natural Areas. http://assessment.ifas.ufl.edu