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Eastern Redbud
• Alternate, heart shaped leaves
• Dark colored, smooth bark
• Flowers are light, magenta-pink
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
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.
Black Oak
• Leaf lobes are sharply pointed
• Dark bark and a blocked pattern
• One side of leaf is glossy, other side fuzzy
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
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 .
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