Plants in Our World Tree ID Quiz

Pinus strobus

White pine

5 needles per cluster

Pinus resinosa

Red pine

2 long, stiff needles per cluster

Redish bark

Pinus rigida

Pitch pine

3 stiff needles per cluster

Pinus banksiana

Jack pine

2 short needles per cluster

Picea rubens

Red spruce

Short stiff needles with pointed ends

Abies balsamea

Balsam fir

needle like leaves with blunt tips plus flat

winged seeds on upright cone

Tsuga canadensis

Eastern hemlock

short flat needles with blunt ends and peg-like stalks

small cones with winged seeds

Thuja occidentalis

Northern white cedar

fan like branches with scaly leaves

red-brown furrowed bark that peels in strips

slender yellow green cones that ripen brown

Larix laricinia

Tamarack

deciduous

needles borne on a short shoot in groups of 10-20

small lustrous brown cones

swamps, bogs, fens

Quercus rubra

Red oak

alternate leaves with pointed lobes and rounded sinuses

shallower sinuses than black oak

Quercus velutina

black oak

alternate leaves with pointed lobes and rounded sinuses

deeper sinuses than red oak

Quercus alba

white oak

alternate leaves with rounded lobes and sinuses

Acer rubrum

red maple

pairs of palmate opposite leaves with V-notch sinus

winged samara seeds

seeds are close wings like a little fairy

leaves have many teeth on the edges

Acer saccharum

Sugar maples

pairs of palmate leaves with rounded sinuses

seeds wing widely spaced wings, like a U shape

sparse teeth on the edges

Acer sacchariunum

silver maple

pairs of palmate opposite leaves with incised sinuses (deep cut in)

Seeds wings are really close together

Fagus grandifolia

American Beech

alternate canoe-shaped leaves and toothed margin

smooth gray bark, but often gets beech bark disease

spikey nuts

Betula papyrifera

White (paper) birch

alternate leaves with spade shape and toothed margin

white papery bark that peels in strips

Betula alleghaniensis

Yellow birch

alternate leaves with elliptic shape and toothed margins

bark is yellowy with rough peely bits

longer than paper birch with fine teeth

Fraxinus americana

white ash

opposite compound pinnate leaves

leaf scar is a horseshoe shape

leaflets are clearly stalked away from the stem

Fraxinus pennsylvanica

Green ash

oppostie compound pinnate leaves

leaf scar is rounder

leaves are smaller than white ash

leaflets have almost no stalks, directly attached to stem

conifer

a gymnosperm

produce cones

broadleaves

angiosperms

typically have wide flat leaves

What is the genus for oaks

Quercus

What is the genus for Ash

Fraxinus

What is the genus for pines

Pinus

What is the genus for spruce?

Picea

What is the genus for cedars?

Thuja

What is the genus for larches?

Larix

What is the genus for maples?

Acer

What is the genus for beeches?

Fagus

What is the genus for birches?

Betula

Quercus rubra

Black oak

Quercus alba

Acer saccharum

Acer rubrum

Acer saccharinum

Fagus grandifolia

Betula papyrifera

Betula alleghaniensis

Fraxinus americana

Fraxinus pennsylvania

Pinus strobus

Pinus resinosa

Pinus rigida

Pinus banskiana

Picea rubens

Abies balsamea

Tsuga canadensis

Thuja occidentalis

Larix laricinia