Test 3 Species

Question 1

Red Maple

Answer 1

~Acer rubrum
~opposite, simple
~palmately lobed leaves
~fruit=helicopter seeds

Question 2

Yellow Poplar

Answer 2

~Liriodendron tulipifera
~tulip/cat heat leaves
~encircling stipule scars
~4-lobed

Question 3

Sweetgum

Answer 3

~Liquidambar styraciflua
~star-shaped leaves
~spiny ball fruit
~smells minty

Question 4

American beech

Answer 4

~fagus grandifolia
~very long, pointy buds
~smooth gray bark
~parallel leaf veins, toothed leaf

Question 5

Sassafras

Answer 5

~Sassafras albidum
~lobed and unlobed on same tree
~smells like rootbeer
~reddish bark with vertical ridges and furrows

Question 6

Sourwood

Answer 6

~oxydendrum arboreum
~very fine teeth
~tastes sour
~little hairs along underside of mid vein

Question 7

River birch

Answer 7

~betula nigra
~papery bark
~doubly serrate

Question 8

Black cherry

Answer 8

~prunus serotina
~veins not parallel
~cornflake bark
~2 little glands at base of leaves

Question 9

Flowering dogwood

Answer 9

~cornus florida
~opposite leaves
~veins curve towards tip
~alligator skin bark

Question 10

Baldcypress

Answer 10

~taxodium distichum
~feather-like needles
~rounded cones

Question 11

White oak

Answer 11

~quercus alba
~light gray scaly bark
~pale underside of leaves
~7-9 lobes

Question 12

Water oak

Answer 12

~quercus nigra
~spatula shaped leaves

Question 13

Southern magnolia

Answer 13

~magnolia grandiflora
~evergreen, thick leaves
~lemon scented

Question 14

Sweetbay magnolia

Answer 14

~magnolia virginiana
~smells spicy
~silver underside

Question 15

Loblolly pine

Answer 15

~pinus taeda
~long needles in bundles of 3
~sharp cones