Indiana Trees

Liquidambar styraciflua

Sweet Gum

-2 stipules at base of petiole

-palmately lobed leaves

-balsamic oleo-resin

Rhus typhina

Stag-Horned sumac

-small tree or shrub

-alternate leaves and pinnately compound

-diecious

-red clustered drupes

-hairy twigs

-only red needle like hairs on fruit

Rhus x pulvinata

Northern sumac

-hybrid of Rhus typhina and Rhus glabra

-dioecous

-alternate pinnately compound leaves

-drupe in upright clusters

Rhus glabra
Smooth Sumac

shrub

-hairless twigs

-warty to club like red hairs on leaves

-serrate leaf margins

Rhus copallina

Winged Sumac

shrub

-winged leaf stalk between leaflets

-alternate to pinnately compound leaves

-hairy-stalked leaves

-reddish brown and hairy buds

Toxicodendron vernix

Poison-Sumac

Shrub

-pinnately compound leaves

-stalked with 10-13 leaflets

-axillary flowers in a long inflorescence

-greyish white drupes

-glaucous (waxy coating), glabrous (hairless)

-non-toothed leaves tapering at both ends

Asimina triloba

Common pawpaw

-shallowly furrowed bark

-maroon 3-merous flowers

-yellow-green berries

-oblong leaves compound and whorled

Alnus glutinosa

European Adler