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Identify virginia creeper

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Vine.
Compound.
Aerial root let’s sticking out with round ends.
Alternate.

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

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How do you identify Paw paw

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Simple
Alternate
Naked dark colored bud and very soft. You can bend them back and forth.

Asimina triloba

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Position ivy

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Pinnately compound.
Alternate.
3 leaves

Toxicodendron radicans

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Ash leaf maple

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Opposite.
Compound.
Bottom land species( near water more)
New growth twigs are very green and stay that way through out winter.

Acer negunda

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Bass wood

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North facing/ cooler and moisture

Simple.
Alternate.
Shaped like a heart.

Tilia americana

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American holly

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Serated.
Waxy.
Shiny.
Alternate.
Simple.
Thick leathery. Little spines are sharp.

Llex opaca

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Yellow buckeye

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Husk will be yellowish.
Thickness of branches
Opposite.
Compound.
Smooth.
Scaled bud.
Aesculus flava
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Bitternut hickory

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The only hickory to have a naked/ yellowish bud.
Alternate.
Compound.
Carya cordiformis

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White elm

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Simple.
Alternate.
Bark: little thin layer then a light later 
Alternating bark. 
Bud is always where stem comes off.
Smaller leaves than red. Dark stem.
Ulmus americana.
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Ohio buckeye

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Opposite 
Palmately compound
Smaller leaves than yellow buckeye
When big enough husk will have prickles. 
Aesculus glabra
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Red elm

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Simple 
Alternate 
Twig is gray
Buds are dark
Leaves feel like sandpaper
Bark layers are same color and alternating.   Ulmus rubra.
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Red bud tree

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Twigs are gray/ new ones brown 
Cluster of buds. 
Simple.
Alternate.
Buds have x colors, ( black and red)
Bark has reddish brown color
Leaf smooth/rubber feeling
Cercis canadensis= scientific
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River birch

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Double serated leaves
Simple leaves
Alternate
Slope down
Down in watery lands
Bark has orange color in it
Betula nigra= scientific
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Kingnut hickory

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Pinnately compound 
7-9 leaflets
Alternate 
Can get big
Twig has tan color. - large scaled bud
Little orange dots on bark. Bottom land
Carya laciniosa= scientific
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Shagbark hickory

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Compound
Alternate
Bumps/ dots on them
Blotches on leaves
Twigs have hairs/fuzz 
Buds kind of hairy - bark dark color
Uplands.  Carya ovata= scientific
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Smooth sumac

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Compound 
Alternate
White underneath/ very
Purplish pedial
Can't see the buds

Rhus glabra= scientific

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Red maple

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Sharp v shape down at the base
Alternate

Acer rubrum

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Pignut hickory

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5 leaflets 
Completely hairless and skinny twig 
Smaller bud 
Upland
Bark comes loose In some places 
Nut dark brown
Carya glabra = scientific
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Chestnut oak

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Rounded lobes 
No Brissle tips 
Tip will have a cluster of buds 
Comparatively long bud 
Pointy terminal buds

Quercus montana

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Mockernut hickory

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Compound 
Alternate 
7-9 leaflets.   Yellowish/ greenish bud
No scales/ looks like Hershey kiss 
Twig usually has fuzzy/ hairy
Hair on leaves   Strictly uplands 
Carya tomentosa
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Winged sumac

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Had wings on pedial 
No teeth on leaflets 
Light green under/ not white 
Cluster of fruit/ dries out early 
Can not eat fruit 
Smaller/ skinnier leaves 
Rhus copallina
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Red oak

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Simple 
Alternate 
Brissle tips 
At the tip of branch there will be a number of buds 
Indian shooting arrow/ pointy
Quercus rubra= scientific
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Wild hydrangea

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Simple
Opposite
Ends with cluster of fruits that were flowers, they are rounded

Hydrangea arborescens

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Wild grape

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Vitis sp. = scientific 
Simple 
Alternate 
Leaves have teeth 
Curly fry looking branch things called tendrils
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Sycamore

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Plantanus occidentalis

White trunk, usually near water

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Silver maple

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Acer saccharinum

Opposite 
Simple 
A lot of small teeth 
Twigs turn reddish during winter 
Under leaf is white/ silver
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Sugar maple

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Acer saccharum

Simple
Opposite
Toothed
Brown twigs
Terminal buds
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Canada moonseed

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Menispermum canadense

PAC man seeds/ Inside berry
Vine

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Cottonwood

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Populus del toides

Big triangle like leaves 
Rounded teeth 
Simple / alternate 
2 sided pedial, face on each side 
Christmas tree :)
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Tulip tree

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Liriodendron tulipifera
Alternate.  Simple 
Lobed 
At the end have a terminal bud that is flat 
Bud looks like beaver tail
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Green ash

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Fraxinus pennsylvanica

Compound. Opposite.
Light green under leaves
Have teeth along the margins
Laderal buds of the side will be flat and bud will be sitting on top.

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Black walnut

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Junglans nigra

Compound
Alternate 
Bottom land 
Husk is round, contains dark brown dye
Long x shaped bark monkey face
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Spice bush

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Simple. Alternate. Beebee buds.
Smooth
Has a sweet smell

Lindera benzoin

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Flowering dogwood

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Cornus florida

Opposite. Simple. Branches slant up.
Bark(small alligator)
Modeled
Blocky

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White ash

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Fraxinus americana
Compound. Opposite. Pedial where leaflets attach.
Bud sits in the saddle
X shaped tight bark
T can have exit holes shaped like a d and it’s light brown

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Black gum

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Nyssa sylvatica

Simple. Alternate. Branches come straight out at a 90 degree angle
Up and down straight bark
Bark has more of a gray color
As it gets older bark breaks up into big alligator blocks.

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Yellow birch

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Betula alleghaniensis

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Sourwood

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Oxydendrum arboreum

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Sawbrier

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Smilax rotundifolia

39
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Partridgeberry

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Mitchella repens

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Glaucous greenbrier

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Smilax glauca

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Hawthorn

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Crataegus sp.

42
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Maple leaf viburnum

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Viburnum acerifolium

43
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Hop hornbeam

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Ostrya virginiana

44
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Wahoo

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Atropurpureus

45
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Bristly greenbrier

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Smilax hispida

46
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Blackhaw

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Viburnum prunifolium

47
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Alternate leaf dogwood

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Cornus alternifolia

48
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Pin oak

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Quercus palustris

49
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Cucumbertree

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Magnolia acuminata

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Wild black cherry

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Prunus serotina

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Ailanthus

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Ailanthus altissima

52
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Staghorn sumac

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Rhus typhina

53
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American chestnut

A

Castanea dentata

54
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Black oak

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Quercus velutina

55
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Sassafras

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Albidum

56
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White oak

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Quercus alba

57
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Scarlet oak

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Quercus coccinea

58
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AM. Beech

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Fagus grandifolia

59
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Butternut

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Juglans cinerea

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Am. Hazelnut

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Corylus americana

61
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Witch-hazel

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Hamamelis virginiana

62
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Bladdernut

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Staphylea trifolia

63
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Hackberry

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Celtis occidentalis

64
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Sweetgum

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Liquidambar styraciflua

65
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Eastern red cedar

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Juniperus virginiana

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Eastern hemlock

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Tsuga canadensis

67
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Mountain laurel

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Kalmia latifolia

68
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Trailing arbutus

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Epigaea repens

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Devils walking-stick

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Aralia spinosa

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Great rhododendron

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Rhododendron maximum

71
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Pitch pine

A

Pinus rigida

72
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Virginia pine

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Pinus virginiana

73
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Striped wintergreen

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Chimaphila maculata

74
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Red pine

A

Pinus resinosa

75
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Black locust

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Robinia pseudoacacia

76
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Wild blackberry

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Vaccinium sp.

77
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Multiflora rose

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Rosa multiflora

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Wild blackberry

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Rubus alleghaniensis

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Wild rasberry

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Rubus occidentalis

80
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Japanese honeysuckle

A

Lonicera japonica

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