Scientific Names Flashcards
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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
Plantanus occidentalis
White trunk, usually near water
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Silver maple
Acer saccharinum
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Opposite
Simple
A lot of small teeth
Twigs turn reddish during winter
Under leaf is white/ silver
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Sugar maple
Acer saccharum
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Simple
Opposite
Toothed
Brown twigs
Terminal buds
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Canada moonseed
Menispermum canadense
PAC man seeds/ Inside berry
Vine
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Cottonwood
Populus del toides
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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
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
Junglans nigra
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Compound
Alternate
Bottom land
Husk is round, contains dark brown dye
Long x shaped bark monkey face
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Spice bush
Simple. Alternate. Beebee buds.
Smooth
Has a sweet smell
Lindera benzoin
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Flowering dogwood
Cornus florida
Opposite. Simple. Branches slant up.
Bark(small alligator)
Modeled
Blocky
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White ash
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
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
Betula alleghaniensis
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Sourwood
Oxydendrum arboreum
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Sawbrier
Smilax rotundifolia
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Partridgeberry
Mitchella repens
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Glaucous greenbrier
Smilax glauca
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Hawthorn
Crataegus sp.
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Maple leaf viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
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Hop hornbeam
Ostrya virginiana
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Wahoo
Atropurpureus
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Bristly greenbrier
Smilax hispida
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Blackhaw
Viburnum prunifolium
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Alternate leaf dogwood
Cornus alternifolia
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Pin oak
Quercus palustris
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Cucumbertree
Magnolia acuminata
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Wild black cherry
Prunus serotina
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Ailanthus
Ailanthus altissima
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Staghorn sumac
Rhus typhina
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American chestnut
Castanea dentata
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Black oak
Quercus velutina
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Sassafras
Albidum
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White oak
Quercus alba
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Scarlet oak
Quercus coccinea
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AM. Beech
Fagus grandifolia
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Butternut
Juglans cinerea
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Am. Hazelnut
Corylus americana
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Witch-hazel
Hamamelis virginiana
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Bladdernut
Staphylea trifolia
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Hackberry
Celtis occidentalis
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Sweetgum
Liquidambar styraciflua
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Eastern red cedar
Juniperus virginiana
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Eastern hemlock
Tsuga canadensis
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Mountain laurel
Kalmia latifolia
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Trailing arbutus
Epigaea repens
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Devils walking-stick
Aralia spinosa
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Great rhododendron
Rhododendron maximum
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Pitch pine
Pinus rigida
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Virginia pine
Pinus virginiana
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Striped wintergreen
Chimaphila maculata
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Red pine
Pinus resinosa
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Black locust
Robinia pseudoacacia
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Wild blackberry
Vaccinium sp.
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Multiflora rose
Rosa multiflora
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Wild blackberry
Rubus alleghaniensis
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Wild rasberry
Rubus occidentalis
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Japanese honeysuckle
Lonicera japonica
