Lower Mainland Trees Flashcards
Thuja plicata (reddish-grey bark, flat, scale-like leaves, small cones)
Abies grandis (grooved needles, 2 white lines underneath, grows very tall, smells like grapefruit)
Pinus contorta (2 needles, top-heavy crown/bare lower trunk)
Tsuga heterophylla (down-sweeping branches, green feathery needles, white underneath)
Arbutus menziesii (Canada’s only broadleaved evergreen, crooked trunk, twisting branches)
Rhamnus purshiana (greyish-black bark, purple fruit)
Pseudotsuga menziesii (thin needles protrude circularly, pointed buds, thick, deeply cut bark, bracts longer than scales)
Abies lasiocarpa (narrow, dense crown, bluish-green needles curve upwards, dark purple cones)
Picea sitchensis (short, very sharp, light green to bluish needles, cones in clusters)
Sorbus americana (pinnately compound leaves on golden stalks, flowers in dense white clusters followed by bright red clusters of berries)
Acer macrophyllum (large, deeply five lobed leaves, few wavy teeth)
Acer circinatum (seven to nine medium lobed leaves, tiny white flowers, winged seeds)
Alnus rubra (oval shaped, deeply serrated leaves that tend to curl under, catkins, deep, ladder-like veins)
Betula papyrifera (white to reddish-brown bark peels in strips, small serrated leaves)
Abies amabilis (groove on top of needle, two white lines on lower, similar to Abies grandis, but Abies grandis has lighter green cones and needles that appear more flattened from the branch (less like a pipe cleaner))
Pinus ponderosa (red, fragrant bark, three needles, circular pine cones)
Pinus monticola (five three-sided needle, white on two sides, dark brown bark shaped in rectangles/squares as it ages)
Pinus albicaulis (known for it’s white bark, has five needles, small oval cones)
