Sugar Maple

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Sugar Maple
Leaves   Five main lobes. Margin (edge) of leaf
is entire (not serrated). Bark dark gray. As
the tree matures, the bark becomes deeply
fissured (looks shaggy).   Height 60 to 80 ft.
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White Pine
Leaves needles 3 to 5 in. long and in groups of
fives   Cones slender, thornless, 3 to 10 in.
long   Bark young stems thin, smooth and dark
green mature tree's bark is deeply
furrowed.   Height 80 to 100 ft.
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Flowering Dogwood
Leaves oval to egg shaped with five or six pairs
of veins   Branching opposite   Bark dark
(red-brown), deeply checkered in an alligator
hide-like pattern   Height small bushy tree
(taller in southern states 30 to 40 ft.)
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Black Gum
Leaf Alternate, simple, pinnately veined,
obovate in shape with an entire margin, 3 to 5
inches long. Rarely toothed. Flower Not showy,
green-white in color, appearing with the leaves,
hanging in clusters.   Fruit A dark,
purplish-blue drupe, 1/2 inch long, with a fleshy
coating surrounding a ribbed pit.   Twig
Slender, red-brown to gray in color, with a
diaphragmed pith. One to 2 inch curved spur
shoots are often present. Buds are multicolored,
including purple and green.   Bark Gray, quite
often blocky--resembling alligator hide on very
old stems. Otherwise scaly or ridged and
ashy-gray (nearly nondescript).
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Eastern Hemlock
Leaf Evergreen, 1/2 inch long, dark green in
color, with 2 lines of white stomata below. Tips
are blunt. Needles are two-ranked. Flower
Monoecious males yellow, small, round females
light green at branch tips.   Fruit Ovoid, 3/4
inch long with rounded, entire scales. Maturing
September to October.   Twig Fine, gray-brown
in color.   Bark On young trees, gray-brown,
smooth, turning scaly. Older trees are red-brown
with wide ridges and furrows.
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Black Oak
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Chestnut Oak
Characteristics Trees attain a height of 60-70
feet, though taller trees are sometimes
encountered. The trunks of mature trees are 3-4
feet in diameter the leaves have either rounded
or sharp teeth and are 4 to 9 inches long. The
leaves are dull orange in autumn.
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Pin Oak
Leaf Alternate, simple, 3 to 6 inches long, oval
in outline with 5 to 9 bristle-tipped lobes and
irregularly deep sinuses that extend nearly to
the midrib. Flower Staminate flowers borne on
catkins. Pistillate flowers borne on spikes.
Appearing with the leaves. Fruit Acorns are
1/2 inch long, striated, round (but flattened at
the cap), thin and saucer-like cap, covered with
red-brown appressed scales. Matures after 2
years, dispersed September to December.  Bark
Gray-brown and very tight and thin. Remains
smooth for many years, eventually develops thin
ridges and furrows.
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Box Elder
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Black Locust
Leaves pinnately compound margin entire Bark
mature trees reddish brown to nearly black,
deeply furrowed. Bark is poisonous cattle die
from browsing on bark and children become ill
from chewing on twigs or bark.   Height 70 to 80
ft.
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1. ________________
Flowering Dogwood
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2. ________________
White Pine
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3. ________________
Eastern Hemlock
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4. ________________
Sugar Maple
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5. ________________
Black Gum
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6. ________________
Chestnut Oak
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7. ________________
Black Locust
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8. ________________
Box Elder
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9. ________________
Black Oak
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10. _______________
Pin Oak
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American Beech
Leaves grow up to five inches long. they are
ovate (shaped like an oval) with a pointed tip.
Flowers clustered together in a one inch yellow
ball. The fruits are about 3/4 inch long and
prickly. The bark of this tree is light gray and
smooth. It stays smooth when it gets older.
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Red Maple
Leaves Three (sometimes five) main lobes
Notches between lobes are shallow
  Bark Younger trees are smooth and light gray.
Older trees have long, narrow, scaly plates with
shallow fissures. Height medium sized tree 50
to 70 ft.
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Green Ash
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Tree of heaven (Ailanthus)
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Black Walnut
Leaf Alternate, pinnately compound with 10 to 24
leaflets, Flower Male flowers are
single-stemmed catkins, 2 1/2 to 5 1/2 inches
long. Female flowers on short spikes near twig
end, Fruit Round with a thick, green
indehiscent husk. Bark Light brown on surface,
dark brown when cut 
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White Ash
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Red Oak
Leaves   Have seven to 11 toothed lobes that are
separated by sinuses extending about halfway to
the midrib.   Bark reddish brown when young
mature tree is dark, furrowed and often laced
with broad shiny strips   Height 70 to 90 ft.
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Sycamore
Leaf Alternate, simple, palmately veined, 4 to 8
inches wide, ovate in shape, with three to five
lobes. Flower Not showy.   Fruit A spherical
multiple of achene's borne on a 3 to 6 inch
stalk. Each seed is tiny, winged, and 1/2 inch
long. Twig Obviously zigzag, quite stout and
orange-brown in color.   Bark Thin, mottled
brown, green and white.
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Shagbark Hickory
Leaf Alternate, pinnately compound with 5
(sometimes 7) leaflets 8 to 14 inches long.
Flower Male flowers are catkins, hanging in
3's, 2 to 3 inches long. Females are short, in
clusters at the end of branches.   Fruit Nearly
round, 1 1/2 inches, with a very thick husk.
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Black Birch
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1. _______________
White Ash
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2. _______________
Shagbark Hickory
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3. _______________
Red Maple
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4. _______________
Sycamore
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5. _______________
Tree of heaven
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6. _______________
Black Birch
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7. _______________
Green Ash
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8. _______________
Red Oak
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9. ______________
American Beech
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10. ______________
Black Walnut
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White Oak
Leaves Have seven to nine lobes Turn
orange-red, crimson, and red-purple, then fade to
brown in the fall and may remain on the tree into
winter Bark light ashy gray, mature trees -
shallow and flaky   Height 80 to 100 ft.
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Scarlet Oak
Leaf Alternate, simple, 3 to 7 inches
long. Flower Staminate flowers borne on catkins.
Fruit Acorns are 1/2 to 1 inch long, with a
scaled cap covering 1/2 of the nut.   Bark On
young trees, gray-brown, with smooth streaks.
Later developing irregular ridges and furrows.
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Virginia Pine
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Silver Maple
Leaf Opposite, with 5 deeply palmate lobes, lobe
margins serrate, 2 1/2 to 5 inches long light
green above, pale, silvery white below. Flower
Greenish or reddish flowers appear in
clusters  Fruit Largest of any native maple,
divergent wings 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches long  Bark
Similar to red maple, light gray when young, when
older breaks up into long thin strips, loose at
ends. Form Trunk usually short. Long slender
branches sweep downward and then curve gracefully
upwards.
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Sassafras
Leaves Three patterns Three "fingers" A
"thumb and mitten" outline Smooth, egg-shaped
Bark mature tree reddish-brown and furrowed
when scratched, smells like root beer   Height
10 to 50 ft.
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Tulip Tree (yellow popular)
Leaf Alternate, simple, palmately veined,
orbicular, 4-lobed with an entire margin, 4 to 8
inches long. Somewhat shaped like a tulip.
Flower Showy, but high in the tree, 2 1/2
inches long.   Fruit An oblong aggregate of
samaras, deciduous at maturity. Each samara is
1-winged, 1 1/2 inches long, and 4-angled. Bark
Light gray-green in color, often with white in
grooves or in patches.
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Black Cherry
Leaves long, narrow, finely serrated turn
bright yellow (a few turn red) in the
fall   Branching alternate   Bark looks like
burnt potato chips glued to the tree trunk  
Height 60 to 80 ft. (100 ft.)
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Red Bud
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Staghorn Sumac
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Red Bud
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2. _______________
Scarlet Oak
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3. _______________
Staghorn Sumac
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4. _______________
White Oak
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5. _______________
Tulip Tree
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6. _______________
Virginia Pine
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7. _______________
Sassafras
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8. _______________
Black Cherry
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9. _______________
Silver Maple