The illustrator's drawings of each animal are gorgeous. Buy It A Book for the Southwestern Deserts Desert Tree Finder by May Theilgaard Watts and Tom Watts, is a key to identifying trees of the deserts of California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Shows habitat and distribution of native trees and some commonly introduced non-native trees that survive in the harsh climate of the deserts and desert hills, where rainfall is too sparse to support pine trees. A dichotomous key leads you through a series of questions about the plant you're trying to identify. Key guides encourage close observation of plant structures and help you learn which plants are closely related to each other.
Many educators believe dichotomous keys are the best tools for learning to identify plants.
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