a.
Leaves broad; definitely not needle-like or scale-like; mostly
deciduous... go to 2
b. Leaves needle-like (pines) or scale-like (cedar)...go to
13
a.
Leaves, buds, branches have opposite arrangement - maple, ash,
dogwood...go to 3
b.
Leaves, buds, branches have alternate arrangement...go to 4
a. MapleSugar Silver Norway Boxelder
b. AshGreen White
c. Dogwood
a.
Leaves are compound- walnut, sumac, hickory, locust,
alianthus...go to 5
b.
Leavs are simple...go to 6
a. HickoryPignut Mockernut Shagbark Bitternut
c. Walnut Black Butternut
b. SumacStaghorn Smooth Winged
d. Locust Black Honey
a.
Leaves have rounded lobes- white oaks, sassafras, mulberry...go
to 7
b. Leaves have pointed lobes- red oaks, sycamore, sweet gum,
holly, tulip-poplar...go to 8 c. Leaves have no lobes...go to 9
a. White oaksWhite Chestnut Water Post
c. Mulberry
b. Sassafras
a.
Red oaksSouthern Black
Northen
c. Sweetgum
d. HollyPin Scarlet
b. Sycamore
e. Tulip-poplar
a.
Leaves have smooth (entire) margins- Willow oak, live oak,
pawpaw, redbud, tupelo, persimmon, mangolia...go to 10
b.
Leaves have toothed margins- willow, birch, true poplars, beech,
horn beam, hophornbeam, chestnut, elm, hackberry, cherry, sourwood,
basswood, mulberry...go to 11&12
Oaks Willowa.
Live
d. Tupelo (Blackgum)
b. Pawpaw
e. Persimmon
c. Redbud
f. Magnolia
c. Elma.
BirchEuropeanwhite Black River
American Slippery
Hackberry
Paper Gray
d. Cherry b. ChestnutAmerican Chinese Eastern
Sweet
Black
Fire
e. Willow Black
g. Beech Weeping
h. Hornbeam f. True poplar i. Hophornbeam
a.
Needles in clusters or bundles (pines)...go to 14
b.
Needles appear singly, not in clusters...go to 15
c.
Needles are scale-like, overlapping to make branches that look
flat...go to 17
a.
Five needles per fascircle eastern white pine
c.
Two and three needles per fascicle (on the same tree)- shortleaf
pine
b. Three needles per fascicle- loblolly pine
d.
Two needles per fascicle virginia pine
a.
Needles are four sided, roll between fingers spruce...go to
16a
b.
Needles are two sided do not rollhemlock...go to 16b Needles are
feather like, may be foundt growing in swamps...go to 16c
a.
a.
Blue
White
Red
Norway
c. Leaves and twigs alternately arrangedbaldcypress
b.
Eastern
Carolina
Leaves and twigs oppositely arranged- dawn redwood
a.
Scales are prickly, not flat- easten red cedar
b.
Scales are very flat and arranged in sprays northen white
cedar
Info by: www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/forsite/key/in tro.htm
