Native Tree Identification

Question 1

Sweet Birch

Answer 1

alternate, micro-serrated ovate leaves, inner bark smells like wintergreen gum, catkins, small 1/1.5 inch cone

Question 2

American Chestnut

Answer 2

alternate, large 2/2.5 inch nut covered by spikey ball(bigger than chinkapin), 5-8 inch lance-like ovate leaves with toothed edges and 20-ish rows of veins

Question 3

Alleghany Chinkapin

Answer 3

alternate, dusty buds, toothed long ovate leaf, small 3/4-1.5 inch spiked ball containing the fruit

Question 4

Shingle Oak

Answer 4

alternate, conical cluster of buds, ovate leaf with NO teeth, thatched roof acorn cap

Question 5

Callery pear

Answer 5

alternate, small stubby almost heart-shaped ovate leaf, large fuzzy white bud

Question 6

Boxelder

Answer 6

Opposite, v shape leaf scar, compound long ovate leaf, green young twigs

Question 7

Norway Maple

Answer 7

Opposite, small sugar-maple like leaves with long teeth, three pronged dark red bud

Question 8

Silver Maple

Answer 8

Opposite, three pronged deeply sinated leaf, buds can be found in dense clusters along twig

Question 9

Pawpaw

Answer 9

Alternate, smooth bark with warts, ovate no teeth leaves, brown/black fuzzy buds along twig

Question 10

Blackgum

Answer 10

Alternate, ovate no teeth leaves, three dots in leaf scar, small buds

Question 11

American Beech

Answer 11

Alternate, distinctly toothed leaves, small spikey balled fruit

Question 12

Sassafras

Answer 12

Alternate, mitten leaves, white-ish yellow buds, orange inner bark, twig smells like fruit loops

Question 13

Sweet Cherry

Answer 13

Alternate, deep lenticels on smooth bark, slightly serrated ovate leaf which is fatter than Black Cherry, sharp red buds

Question 14

Bigtooth Aspen

Answer 14

Alternate, deep cut toothed ovate leaf (like someone took little bites out of it)

Question 15

Black Willow

Answer 15

Alternate, very thin unique lance leaves, young yellow branches

Question 16

Red Maple

Answer 16

Opposite, three lobe leaves (vs five lobe norway), young red twigs

Question 17

Flowering Dogwood

Answer 17

Alternate, wine glass hold, large bulbous mushroom-like buds

Question 18

White Oak

Answer 18

Alternate, rounded edge finger like lobed leaf, black warted acorn cap

Question 19

Black Oak

Answer 19

Alternate, sharp edge lobed leaf, thatched roof acorn cap

Question 20

Yellow Poplar

Answer 20

Alternate, duck-bill bud, wooden flowers

Question 21

Green Ash

Answer 21

Opposite, compound ovate leaf, stubby dark brown leathery bud

Question 22

Eastern White Pine

Answer 22

Opposite, five needle bundle, cones have white sticky sap

Question 23

American Sycamore

Answer 23

Alternate, brown balls, camo bark

Question 24

Black Cherry

Answer 24

Alternate, small serrations in thin leaf, flakey cornflake bark, small lenticels, cherry smell in twig

Question 25

Norway Spruce

Answer 25

Alternate, brown stump connecting single needle