TREE LEAF PHOTOS ARRANGED BY LEAF TYPE Jim Stanley

A single, compound leaf of a Texas mountain laurel

with 9 leaflets on the left and a stem with simple

leaves of an escarpment black cherry on the right

Four native vines: Clockwise from the top,

greenbrier, Virginia creeper, trumpet creeper, and

grape

Simple, alternate, entire leaves: From the

smallest on the right, clockwise, cenizo, Texas

persimmon, gum bumelia, live oak, hackberry,

Carolina buckthorn, Texas redbud

Simple, alternate, toothed leave:. From the

smallest leaf on the left clockwise, cedar elm,

willow baccharis, escarpment black cherry, black

willow, slippery elm, Mexican plum

Simple, alternate, lobed leaves:. Clockwise from

the largest leaf on the left, bur oak, shin oak, Lacey

oak, Spanish oak, post oak, Monterrey oak,

chinkapin oak, blackjack oak, sycamore

Clockwise from the single simple alternate leaf in

upper left: possumhaw, then simple opposite

leaves: elbow bush, Mexican silktassel, ligustrum,

coral honeysuckle, roughleaf dogwood, American

beautyberry, rusty blackhaw viburnum, bigtooth

maple

Compound, alternate leaves: Clockwise from the

smallest leaf on the lower right, kidneywood, Eve’s

necklace, evergreen sumac, prairie flame-leaf sumac,

Texas mountain laurel, toothache tree, Mexican

buckeye, little walnut, pecan

Clockwise from the smallest leaf on top: twice pinnately

compound, alternate fragrant mimosa, goldenball

leadtree, Chinaberry, compound opposite box elder,

bipinnately compound, opposite mesquite, trifoliate,

opposite agarita