State Forestry Tree ID

American Basswood

American Beech

American Hophorn Beam

Ash

Compound like hickory

unlike hickory it has opposite leaf arrangement and not alternate.

Quaking Aspen

Baldcypress

Paper Birch

Has very white bark that peels like paper

River Birch

Base looks like a boat and has “waves”

Very small serrations between very the large Serrations.

Black Cherry

Waxy

Box Elder

Looks like poison Ivy

Catalpa

Eastern Cottonwood

Very triangular and has a flat base

Elm

Super even veins

Flowering Dogwood

Hackberry

Eastern Hemlock

Bitternut Hickory

7-9 leaflets

Mockernut Hickory

7 - 9 leaflets, fuzzy rachis ( look close for small white fuzz)

Pignut Hickory

5 leaflets, fruit has a “snout”, small bud.

Smallest of the Hickory’s in list.

Shagbark Hickory

5 leaflets and shaggy bark

Kentucky Coffeetree

Has two independent opposite leaflets at the base of the Rachis. (One leaflet shown in picture)

Black Locus

Honey Locus

Red Maple

Silver Maple

Sugar Maple

Black Oak

Burr Oak

Chinkapin Oak

Northern Red Oak

Pin Oak

Smaller than Black Oak and has prominent “pins”

Post Oak

Shingle Oak

not lobed and has needle on tip

White Oak

Pecan

Persimmon

Oval and has orange fruit the size of a golf ball.

Eastern White Pine

5 needles per bundle

Jack Pine

2 needles per bundle

Bundle makes a v shape

Shortest needles of all pines

Pitch Pine

Needle sometimes grow straight out of trunk

3 needle per bundle

Medium long needles

Red Pine

Needles easily break

2 needles per bundle

Longest needles of all pines

Scotch Pine

Needles are twisted together at base

2 needles per bundle

Medium sized needles

Virginia Pine

Makes less aggressive v than jack pine and needles twist at base

2 needles per bundle

Short needles

Eastern Redbud

Eastern Red Cedar

Scaled and has blue berrys

Sassafras

Smells like fruit loops

Norway Spruce

Does not have bundles of needles and needles spiral around branches.

Sumac

small red fruit with fuzzy branches/ leaves.

Branches are green with pink undertone

tree is smaller bush like.

Sweetgum

Sycamore

Tulip Poplar

Black Walnut

Black Willow

What kind of leaf arrangement is this?

Opposite

What kind of leaf arrangement is this?

Alternate

What kind of leaf arrangement is this?

Whorled