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Eastern Cottonwood

• Silvery-white bark

• Twigs are grayish yellow, stout

• Triangular Leaf

Eastern Redbud

• Alternate, heart shaped leaves

• Dark colored, smooth bark

• Flowers are light, magenta-pink

Eastern Hemlock

• Slightly toothed leaves

• Conifer

Eastern Whitepine

• Slender, long cones

• Needles in bundles of five

Mugo Pine

• Symmetrical, brown cones

• Needles in bundles of two (MU-GO=Two Syllables)

Ponderosa Pine

• Thick, cinnamon colored bark (older trees) or black/reddish brown (younger trees)

• Long, needles, bundles of two or three

Oaks Amanda, Darcell, Raul, & Jake

White Oak

• 5-9 in. long, 2-4 in. wide leaves– 5-9 blunt ended lobes

• Bark is light grey and divided by shallow fissures

• 1 in. acorns

Bur Oak

• Narrow based

• Large apex

• Bark is cracked and flaky

• Fuzzy acorns

Chinkapin Oak• Common Name:Chinkapin Oak• Latin Name:Quercus muehlenbergii• Leaf Type: Deciduous • Attributes: Texas native, reliable fall color, seeds or fruit eaten by wildlife• Features: Attractive, light-colored bark; deep green leaf color creates a lush

appearance.• Fun Fact: Good for limestone soils; excellent shade tree!• Problems: Fallen acorns can be a nuisance.

Red Oak

• Leave have bristle tipped lobes

• Dark bark

• Egg shaped acorns

Black Oak

• Leaf lobes are sharply pointed

• Dark bark and a blocked pattern

• One side of leaf is glossy, other side fuzzy

Chestnut Oak

• Evenly and bluntly toothed leaves

• Bark has distinctive deep ridges

Red Maple (Acer rubrum)

• Rounded leaves• RED ( 3 lobes)• Woody

Silver Maple ( Acer saccharinum)

• Shaggy Bark• Silver back• Simple leaf• Deep sinuses

Norway maple (Acer platanoides)

• White sap at stem of leaf

• Has two pointy lobes at the bottom of leaf

• Bark is like a cracked skin

• Similar shape to a silver maple

• Not used for syrup• Smaller leaves

Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)

• Plate like bark• 3 to 5 lobes• Shallow and smooth

lobes

Sweet Gum (Liquidambar styraciflua)

• Leaves alternate on branches

• Sap is clear brownish-yellow color

Sycamore (platanus occidentalis)

• Flaky bark

• Greenish white to brown bark

• Alternate leaves on branch

Grey Birch

• Deciduous tree

• catkins 5-8 cm long

• LEAVES:

• 5-7.5 cm long by 4-6 cm wide

• alternately arranged

• ovate

• tapering to an elongated tip

Elm

• Deciduous

• LEAVES

• alternate

• simple, single- or, most commonly, doubly-serrate margins

• usually asymmetric at the base

• acuminate at the apex

White Birch

•slender trunk of perhaps a foot in

width and noticeably drooping branches

throughout its canopy.

•Usually has multiple trunks

•Smallest leaves of the 3 other birch

Black Birch Tree

Identification:•Black Birch tree has shinny reddish brown, with prominent horizontal pores.

•It has Cone-like, scaly, brown, 1 to 1½ inches long, containing very small 2-winged nutlets.

•Alternate, simple, oval to oblong, 2½ to 5 inches, with doubly toothed edges; leaf stems hairy; tufts of hair near midveins on the undersides of the leaves

Black Walnut

• Grow mainly in the Eastern and Central United States.

• Often stand alone in the forest because their roots and dead leaves produce juglone, a toxic chemical that can kill other vegetation.

River Birch Tree

• Their leaves change to yellow in the Fall.

• Leaves are oval with a double serrated edge .

• They have a flower called a Catkin.

• The flower are reddish-yellow in color.

• The bark of a young one is a salmon color.

• The older ones have a grayish-brown bark .

Green Ash

• Compound leaf

• When ripped off it looks like it has a smiley face

White Ash

• Long and big leafs

• Always larger the Green Ash

• Turns purple

Buckeye

• Brownish/gray bark• Narrow vertical groves between scales• Yellow/green flowers• Leaf-five elliptical leaflets• Brown nut

Honey locust

• Leaves are alternating

• Branches have thorns 4-8in

• Green leaves

• Dark colored fruit

Bald cypress

• Leaves-linear and feather like

• Crown-flatten

Larch

• Needles turn yellow

• Larch cones-green,purple or brown

• Leaves are needle like