Plant ID 10

Pistacia chinensis - chinese pistache

• Anacaridaceae

• deciduous

• rounded spreading crown

• dark leaves

• 60’ tall 35’ wide

• alternate pinnately compound leaf

• tighter, shorter leaflets

• END HAS NO TERMINAL LEAF (mostly)

• 10-16’’ long

• orange fall color

Fatsia japonica - japanese fatsia

• Araliaceae

• Broadleaf evergreen shrub

• palmate leaves - 7-9 lobes

• very long petiole

• coarse teeth on margin

• pale lenticels along bark

• stout, sparseely branched stem

• round cream umbels

Hedera helix - english ivy

• Araliaceae

• very invasive

• evergreen woody vine

• ground cover

• arial rootlets

• dark green leaves with light green veins

• 3-5 lobes

• toxic berries

Ostyra virginiana - ironwood

• betulaceae

• irritating hair on nutlets

• small-medium tree

• multi stemmed

• 35’ tall 35’ wide

• corrugated appearence on leaves

• catkins that droop on end

• doubly derrated margin

• shredding peeling bark

Euonymus fortunei - wintercreeper euonymus

• celastraceae

• woody groundcover or climbing shrub - goes upright

• opposite

• petiole clasps the stem and curves upwards

• rounded serrations

• dark leathery leaf - light underside

• elliptic to ovate

• arial rootlets

• variegated varieties

Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigiata’ - upright european hornbeam

• Corylaceae

• columnar to oval crown

• 3—50’ tall 30’ wide

• alternate simple ovate leaf

• sharp tips

• doubly serrate

• beech like leaf

• long and narrow curved bud that goes up along stem

• irrigation important

Carpinus caroliniana - American Hornbeam

• corylaceae

• smaller buds, smaller leaves

• more sprawling/rounded

• 30’ tall/wide

• musclewood - veiny stem

• 3 lobed nutlet with bract

• doubly serrate

Ficus carica - common fig

• moraceae

• edible fruit

• irritant sap

• longer petioles

• 3-5 lobes on leaf

• brown turkey cultivar - doesnt need fig wasp

• alternate

• palmate leaf with cordate base

• smooth grey bark

• rough pubescent leaves

Maclura pomifera - osage orange

• moraceae

• very large aggregate fruit

• 50’ tall 40’ wide

• alternate simple ovate leaf

• fissured flaking bark

• copper underbark

• thorn at node

• small green flower

• dioecious

Nyssa sylvatica - black gum

• Nyssaceae

• horizontal branches

• bright red petiole

• 30’50’ tall 30’ wide

• alternate elliptic leaves

• smooth young bark that fissures with age

• bud on woody nub

Vitis rotundifolia - muscadine grape

• vitaceae

• woody vine - vigorous

• tendrils

• multiple feet per season

• palmate leaf

• alternate round or cordate shaped leaf

• lobed or unlobed

• serrated margin

• bronze grape fruit

Ilex decidua - possomhaw holly

• aquifoliaceae

• only one on campus

• deciduous

• long elliptical leaf

• dark green

• serrated margin

• red or orange fruit

• feel nearly evergreen

• multi stemmed

• 15’ tall

• colonizer

Baccharis halimifolia - baccharis

• asteraceae

• alternate

• stems produce flowers

• lots of flowers

• multi-stemmed shrub

• stems come out of ground

• 15’ tall

• simple green leaf

Alnus glutinosa - european black alder

• betulaceae

• female and male cone

• fixes nitrogen

• tolerant of wet soils

• obovate to irregular almost circular leaf

• wavy irregular serrated margins

• pinnate venation

• rounded valvate buds

• alternate

• straight up and skinny

Hamamelis virginiana - common witchhazel

• hamamelidaceae

• alternate

• small yellow flower clusters

• pointy leaf bud

• rounded flower bud

• naked pubescent buds

• oblique leaves - pubescent

• tree or shrub

Carya tomentosa - mockernut hickory

• Juglandaceae

• husked nut - round

• pubescent rachis and foliage

• 12’’ compound leaf

• pinnately compound

• top 3 leaflets are larger

• heavily pubescent bud - dark outer scale

• 7-9 leaflets

• elliptical shape - serrated

Juglans nigra - black walnut

• juglandaceae

• large nut in husk

• alternate

• 2’ pinnately compound leaf

• serrated margin

• terminal leaf

• yellow fall color

• .5’’ leag scar - monkey face

• naked pubescent buds

• found in neighborhood for quiz

Cladrastis kentuckea - yellowwood

• rutaceae

• smooth bark - grey

• upright vase shape

• alternate

• pinnately compound

• white pedulus panicle of flowers

• swollen petiole with bud inside

• dark brown stem/bud

• obovate leaflet with acute apex

• wide leaflets

• yellow fall color

• flat samara bunch

Camellia japonica - japanese camellia

• theaceae

• alternate broad leaf evergreen

• multistemmed - 20ft

• mostly shrublike

• dark green glossy leaves

• serrated margin

• big leaf

• single, double, etc. flowers

• bloom later

• coarse habit

Camellia sasanqua - sasanqua camellia

• theaceae

• smaller leaves and flowers than japonica

• bloom earlier (now)

• alternate

• fuzzy bud

• small serrations

Stewartia pseudocamellia - japanese stewartia

• theaceae

• alternate

• flat, pubescent bud

• obovate leaf with acute tip

• new growth bright green

• green-brown further down

• exfoliating bark

• multi-stemmed

• 25’ tall

• capsule fruit - woody sepals

• simple white flowers

Castanea mollissima - chinese chestnut

• Fagaceae

• 4 segmented sharp spiny burr fruit

• medium size 60’ tall/wide

• low branching

• pubescent leaf underside/young twigs

• deeply fissured grey-brown bark

• small green bud

• monoecious

• resistant to chestnut blight

• long, lance-shaped leaves

• corrugated appearance

• wavy margins with tips

Fagus grandifolia - American beech

• Fagaceae

• very long pointed buds

• smooth grey bark

• brown-red branches with white lenticels

• plasticky leaf

• slightly hairy underside

• juvenile foliage stays in winter

• alternate, simple, elliptic to ovate leaves

• parallel venation

• slightly serrated

• beech scale, beech brak disease

• triangular nuts

Quercus acutissima - sawtooth oak

• Fagaceae

• red oak section

• resembles chestnut

• 2-year acorns

• bristled margins

• serrated

• 4-7.5” leaf

• glossy, lanceolate to oblong

• “straw-hat” involucre

• grey-brown hairy buds - imbricate

• 2/3 involucre

• clustered acorns

Quercus alba - white oak

• Fagaceae

• 80-100’

• 5-9 rounded lobes

• 4-9” long leaf

• Purplish brown twigs

• star-shaped pith

• light grey-brown, scaly bark

• underside of leaf not hairy

• 1”ish long acorn

• cap only covers the top

• same width

• single acorn mostly

Quercus bicolor - swamp white oak

• Fagaceae

• exfoliating bark

• light green/blue underside of leaf

• more glaborous

• light brown terminal bud

• usually just one acorn

• cap usually left on when acorn falls

• cap goes down 1/3

• long peduncle

• can be affected by xylella

Quercus dentata - Daimyo oak

• Fagaceae

• non-native

• paddle-shaped leaves

• scalloped edge, lobed

• short petioles

• tight branches

• pubescent leaves and new growth

• leaf up to 12”

• ear-like leaf base

• fuzzy buds

Quercus coccinea - scarlet oak

• Fagaceae

• 80’ tall 60’ wide

• reddish brown twigs/terminal buds

• ovoid to pointed buds in clusters

• lear lobing with bristles

• c shaped lobe sinus

• 5-6 main lobes

• acorn with wide involucre

• grey brown bark tht darkens and fissures with age

• pubescent acorn

• folded up edge of involucre

• beret-shaped involucre that goes down 1/2

Quercus falcata - southern red oak

• Fagaceae

• 100’ tall 60’ wide

• smaller leaf

• some 3 lobed

• up to 5-7 lobes

• more simple lobes

• sickle-shaped, narrow, long, terminal point

• shallow involucre with small acorn

• small pointed bud at 45 degrees

• tawny brown underside

• sharp acorn point

Quercus stellata - post oak

• Fagaceae

• irregular lobing

• cross shape - 2 lateral lobes

• 50’ tall/wide

• leathery leaf

• typically 5 lobes

• clustered terminal bud - - short, pubescent

• involucre 1/3 to ½

• short stalked acorn

• rounded involucre