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Having Trouble - Sci and Identification Flashcards

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European Beech

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Fagaceae, Fagus Sylvatica

  • alt, smooth bark, spikey fruit, 7-9 vein ovate leaf with NO large teeth
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American Beech

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Fagaceae, Fagus Grandifolia

  • alt, smooth bark, spikey fruit, 11-14 vein ovate leaf with large teeth (like little bites)
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Sweetgum

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Hamamelidaceae, Liquidambar Styraciflua

  • spikey balls on tree
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Sassafras

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Lauraceae, Sassafras albidum

  • alt, white/yellow flower bud that looks slightly burnt, rounded mitten leaves, orange inner bark (spicy smell)
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Sweet Cherry

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Rosaceae, Prunus avium

  • alt, large lenticel bark, fatter leaf than black cherry
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Black Cherry

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Rosaceae, Prunus Serotina

  • alt, short lenticel bark when young -cornflake bark when older, skinnier ovate leaf than sweet cherry
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Bigtooth Aspen

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Salicaceae, Populus Grandidentata

  • alt, bark ridged with diamond-shaped vertical lenticels, heart shaped leaf scar, wide ovate leaf with wide teeth (stinkbug)
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Black Willow

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Salicaceae, Salix Nigra

  • alt, scaley ridged bark, young yellow branches, slighly longated bud, lance-like leaf with fine serrations
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Red Maple

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Aceraceae, Acer Rubrum

  • opposite, long finely scaled bark, young red twig with small lenticels, clustered usually red buds
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Sugar Maple

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Aceraceae, Acer Saccharum

  • opposite, very sharp tightly scaled brown buds, Canadian leaf(three main lobes)
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Green Ash

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Oleaceae, Fraxinus Pennsylvanica

  • opposite, diamond ridged bark, compound leaf (7-9 leaflets)
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Dawn Redwood

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Cupressaceae, Metasequoia Glyptostroboides

  • deciduous pine tree, orange striped brown bark (unique)
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Silver Maple

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Aceraceae, Acer Saccharium

  • opposite, long stripped bark, very clustered round red buds, five lobe deeply sinused leaf with coarse serrations
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Norway Maple

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Aceraceae, Acer Platanoides

  • opposite, very thin long ridge bark, short stout sugar maple like leaf with more lobes (5-7)
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Boxelder

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Aceraceae, Acer Negundo

  • opposite, shallow ridged bark, white and hairy buds, young green twigs, “v” leaf scar, simple ovate leaf
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Callery Pear

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Rosaceae, Pyrus Calleryana

  • alt, bud is very fuzzy and white(unique) like cotton, round brown fruit
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Willow Oak

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Fagaceae, Quercus Phellos

  • alt, clustered sharpish brownish red buds, 1/4-1/2 inch acorn (very small), lance like thin toothless leaf(black willow is serrated)
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White Spruce

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Pinaceae, Picea Glauca

  • green needles attached at woody peg, whitish waxy end on needles, very small 1.5-2.5 inch cones (norway spruce 3-4 inch cones)
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Pin Oak

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Fagaceae, Quercus Palustris

  • alt, clustered buds, DEEP leaf sinus )(
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Bur Oak

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Fagaceae, Quercus macrocarpa

  • alt, vertically ridged bark, clustered bud with thread-like material around, hairy looking acorn cap(burred)
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Shingle Oak

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Fagaceae, Quercus imbricaria

  • alt, broad ridges and shallow furrows, clustered buds, wider ovate leaf than willow (willow is lance like)
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Alleghany Chinkapin

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Fagaceae, Casanea pumila

  • alt, shallow furrows with scaly plates, fuzzy(dusty) single bud, fuzzy reddish twig, spikey bur with teardrop nut inside, coarsley toothed ovate leaf
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Chinese Chestnut

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Fagaceae, Castanea mollissima

  • alt, rapidly furrowing bark(like large diamonds), fuzzy gray-brown twig, spikey burr with nut inside
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American Chestnut

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Fagaceae, Castanea dentata

  • alt, smooth young bark shallow ridged older bark, hairless twig, spikey burr
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Kentucky Coffeetree

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Fabaceae, Gymnocladus dioicus

  • alt, sunken bud, slightly heart shaped leaf scar, thick and wide seed pod, salmon color in twig
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Honeylocust

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Fabaceae, Gleditsia triacanthos

  • alt, sunken buds, long skinny seed pod
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River Birch

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Betulaceae, Betula nigra

  • alt, peeled salmon bark(distinct), arrow head leaf with double tooth serrations
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Sweet Birch

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Betulaceae, Betula lenta

  • alt, large plated bark(older), thin twig that smells like wintergreen when broken
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Virginia Pine

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Pinaceae, Pinus virginiana

  • two needle bunch (V for VIRGINIA), small red-brown cone
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White Ash

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Oleaceae, Fraxinus Americana

  • opposite, compound leaf leaflets are slightly larger than green ash and have exactly 7, leaf scar looks like a curved pot like a smile
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Cucumbertree

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Magnoliaceae, Magnolia acuminata

  • alt, soft (spongey) flakey bark, silvery white fuzzy long bud, cat poop fruit
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Spicebush

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Lauraceae, Lindera benzoin

-alt, most are shrubs, lemon yellow leaf in winter, circular buds(pairs or single), spicy smell in twig

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Black Walnut

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Juglandaceae, Juglans Nigra

  • alt, “monkey face” leaf scar, hard thick irregularly furrowed black walnut husk which is hollow and has strong chemical smell, very large compound leaf (12-24 inches)
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Northern Red Oak

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Fagaceae, Quercus Rubra

  • alt, bark like a bunch of snakes slithered up it, clustered buds, acorn like ice-age movie, sharp black oak like leaf with more teeth
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Chinkapin Oak

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Fagaceae, Quercus muehlenbergii

  • alt, light gray (white oak like) bark with little bits of yellow, clustered buds, large acorn with very small cap, coarsley toothed leaf (like chestnut leaf)
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Black Locust

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Fabaceae, Robinia pseudoacacia

  • alt, rope like ridged bark, spikes at leaf scars, sunken small buds, 2-4 inch seed pod(snow pea size), oval round compound leaf
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Eastern Redbud

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Fabaceae, Cercis canadensis

  • alt, sunken buds, 2-4 inch seed pod, heart shaped leaf(black locust leaf is compound and oval shaped)
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Blackhaw

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Caprifoliaceae, Viburnum prunifolium

  • (extremely) opposite, burning ash bark, fish skeleton appearance on branches, raisin like fruit
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Little leaf linden

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Tiliaceae, Tilia cordata

  • alt, buds have “beer belly” bulging on one side - usually orangish, round seed pods with five distinct ridges, serrated crooked heart leaf
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American Basswood

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Tiliaceae, Tilia americana

  • alt, long vertical ridged bark, very red teardrop bud, whiteish twig, round smooth white seed, tree sounds hollow when knocked with something
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Hawthorn

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Rosaceae, Crataegus Spp.

  • generally alt, true thorns, round shiny (like nail polish) red-brick bud, scaley bark
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European Larch

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Pinaceae, Larix decidua

  • looses needles in winter, soft delicate needles, cones turn upwards
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Shagbark Hickory

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Juglandaceae, Carya ovata

  • alt, shaggy bark, shaggy bud with loose brown scales, thickest hickory husk
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Mockernut Hickory

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Juglandaceae, Carya tomentosa

  • alt, woven uniform bark, fuzzy twig, bud is larger than pignut, thick hickory husk(thicker than pignut and bitternut, thinner than shagbark)
  • shagbark is also not fuzzy
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Pignut Hickory

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Juglandaceae, Carya glabra

  • alt, smooth and thin twig, smallish bud, thinner hickory husk than mockernut, inside of nut resembles pig nose
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Bitternut Hickory

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Juglandaceae, Carya cordiformis

  • alt, yellow(sometimes brownish) long bud, thinnest hickory nut
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Common persimmon

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Ebenaceae, Diospyros virginiana

  • alt, reptile scale like bark, rounded triangular black bud, one dot in leaf scar
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Eastern Redcedar

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Cupressaceae, Juniperus virginiana

  • evergreen, tightly held light green-blue needles/leaves around twig, male cones are yellow-brown and very small, female cones are berry-like and blue green
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Northern Catalpa

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Bignoniaceae, Catalpa speciosa

  • sunken oval leaf scar(like nascar stadium), three/four buds and three/four leaf scars, long thin stringy seed pod
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Hophornbeam

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Betulaceae, Ostrya virginiana

  • alt, flatish nutlets in groups on stem, bark appears slightly shredded(older) and smooth with lenticels younger
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Hornbeam

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Betulaceae, Carpinus caroliniana

  • alt, muscular looking bark, hanging large groups of seed pods
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Gray Birch

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Betulaceae, Betula populifolia

  • alt, white gray bark with small lenticels, rough bumpy twig with lenticels, leaf has long edge(like a spikey tail)
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Paper Birch

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Betulaceae, Betula papyrifera

  • alt, very white bark that peels slightly, groups of 3-4 catkins, twig is smooth

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