Pinus strobus

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White pine

-PINACEAE FAMILY

-needles in packets of five

Picea abies

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Norway spruce

-PINACEAE FAMILY

-drooping branches

Picea pungens

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-Colorado blue spruce

-PINACEAE FAMILY

-Spruces have sharp, square needles

White cedar

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Thuja occidentalis

-CUPRESSACEAE FAMILY

-scale like needles

Tulip Tree

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Liriodendron tulipfera

MAGNOLIACEAE FAMILY

tall tree

4 lobed lvs

tulip flower

Salix sp.

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Willow

SALICACEAE FAMILY

female has catkins

Big-toothed aspen

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Populus grandidentata

SAILICACEAE FAMILY

deltoid lvs with dentate margin

lighter underside

whitish bark

Cottonwood

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Populus deltoides

SALICACEAE FAMILY

more acute tip than others

(deltoid, dentate)

deep furrows in bark

Sycamore

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Plantanus occidentalis

PLANTACEAE FAMILY

tall tree with peeling bark

globose cluster for fruit

3-5 lobed lvs with dentate margin

Sweet gum

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Liquidambar styraciflua

ALTINGIACEAE FAMILY

gumball capsules

5-7 deeply lobed lvs, palm. vein.

Redbud

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Cercis canadensis

FABACEAE FAMILY

simple, cordate lvs

legume fruit

Honey-locust

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Gleditsia triacanthos

FABACEAE FAMILY

compound lvs

legume fruit

Red mulberry

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Morus rubra

MORACEAE FAMILY

wide variation of lvs on same tree

hairy underside

alternate lvs

Wild black cherry

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Prunus serotina

ROSACEAE FAMILY

ovate lvs

potato chip bark

black drupe fruit-edible

seeds contain cyanide

American Elm

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Ulmus americana

ULMACEAE FAMILY

plagiotrophic axis

leaf buds LACK hair and are rough

oblique leaf base

Slippery Elm

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Ulmus rubra

ULMACEAE FAMILY

darker brown buds that are HAIRY

winged samara (no hair)

American Beech

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Fagus grandifolia

FAGACEAE FAMILY

smooth gray bark

strong veins, dentate

Cupule with spines around it

cigar shaped buds

White oak

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Quercus alba

FABACEAE FAMILY

smooth lobes

deep sinuses

---rounded tips---

Bur oak

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Quercus macrocarpa

FABACEAE FAMILY

shallow tips at top and deep at bottom

corky ridges on twig

Paper birch

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Betula papyrifera

BETULACEA FAMILY

flaking bark

catkins

Yellow birch

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Betula alleghaniensis

bark has yellow/orange tinge

wet environments

ironwood/Hornbeam

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Ostrya virginiana

BETULACEAE FAMILY

achene fruit with fleshy bracts

THIN serrate pin. lvs

Yellow bud hickory/bitternut hickory

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Carya cordiformis

JUGLANDACEAE FAMILY

pinnately cmpd lvs

lg leaf scars

big yellow buds

Shagbark hickory

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Carya ovata

JUGLANDACEAE FAMILY

pinn. compound lvs

ovata (egg shaped lvs)

5 leaflets

drupe fruit that is edible

Black walnut

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Juglans nigra

JUGLANDACEAE FAMILY

pinn cmp lvs

7-15 leaflets

drupe fruit

MONKEY FACE LEAF SCARS

Smooth sumac and staghorn sumac

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Rhus glabra and Rhus typhina

ANACARDIACEAE FAMILY

pinn cmpd

many leaflets

hairy berry

(typhina=hairy)

Poison ivy

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Toxicodendron radicans

ANACARDIACEA FAMILY

mitten shaped leaflets in groups of three!

glossy sheen

Red maple

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Acer rubrum

SAPIDACEAE FAMILY

opp. arrangement

shallow bottom sinus

fruit (samara) at 45 degree angle

Silver maple

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Acer saccharinum

SAPINDACEAE FAMILY

very deep sinuses

greater than a 45 degree angle

Sugar maple

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Sugar maple

SAPINDACEAE FAMILY

greater than a 45 degree angle

not quite as deep of sinuses

Norway maple

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Acer plantanoides

SAPINDACEAE FAMILY

bristle tips, but wider

fruit at almost 90 degree angle

Horse chestnut

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Aesculus hippocastanum

SAPINDACEAE FAMILY

big terminal bud

everything poisonous

palmately compound

nuts with spiny husks for fruit

American basswood

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Tilia americana

MALVACEAE FAMILY

cordate

oblique base

zig zag branches

Flowering dogwood

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Cornus florida

CORNACEAE FAMILY

four white bracts

twigs chewed to help whiten teeth

opposite arrangement!

curving veins

Green ash

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Fraxinus pennsylvanica

OLEACEAE FAMILY

pinn. cmpd.

opposite arrangement!

leaflets have very short stalks

White ash

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Fraxinus americana

longer stalked leaflets

bud sits in middle of scar

Yellow Trout lily

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Erythronium americanum

LILACEAE FAMILY

single basal paired lvs

naturally spotted

nodding (bkward tepals)

lvs and bulb edible

Trillium

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Trillim grandiflorum

LILACEAE FAMILY

3 petals and 3 sepals

edible lvs prior to blooming

solitary whorl of 3 lvs

False solomans seal

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Maianthemum racemosum

LILACEAE FAMILY

eliptical lvs

stalkless

parallel veins

terminal inflorescence (at end of branch)

Solomans seal

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Polygonatum biflorum

LILACEAE FAMILY

stalkless, clasping

white tubular shaped flowers hanging along stem

Bellwort

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Uvularia grandiflora

LILACEAE FAMILY

alternate leaves

perfoliate blade---completely surrounds the stem---

yellow, 6 part flowers

edible young shoots

Chickweed

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Stellaria media

CAROPHYLLACEAE FAMILY

tiny plant with tiny flowers

notched deep to appear like 10 petals instead of 5

cook leaves with salads

OPP leaves, triangular, long stalked

May apple

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Podophyllum peltatum

BERBERIDACEAE FAMILY

"duck-foot leaf"

---peltate---stem of leaf comes up and attaches in center, like an umbrella

poisionous!

Bloodroot

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Sanguinaria canadensis

RANUNCULACEAE FAMILY

solitary basal lvs with 3-9 lobes, dentate

break root stalk and it oozes red sap

Prairie anemone

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Anemone caroliniana

RANUNCULACEAE FAMILY

basal, long petiole

10-20 parts

Sharp lobed/round lobed hepatica

Anemone acutiloba and Anemone americana

RANUNCULACEAE FAMILY

basal, three shallow lobed lvs

blue/pink/white flowers small

Wild columbine

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Aquilegia canadensis

RANUNCULACEA FAMILY

 cmpd, basal leaves long petiole

yellow->red 5 part nodding flowers

spur shape of an eagle claw (aquila)

Wild lupine

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Lupinus perennis

FABACEAE FAMILY

palmately cmpd 7-11 leaflets

blue 5 part raceme flowers

hairy legume

poisonous

Red clover

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Trifolium pratense

FABACEAE FAMILY

trifolate cmpd lvs (3 leaflets)

red to pink flowers, many in head

White clover

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Trifolium repens

FABACEAE FAMILY

trifolate cmpd lvs with white edges

Cinquefoil

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Potentilla recta

ROSACEAE FAMILY

palm. cmp. lvs, 5-7 leaflets

dentate

pale yellow flowers

Garlic mustard

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Allium petioltata

BRASICACEAE FAMILY

invasive!

alternate, dentate, kidney to deltoid shaped lvs

white 4 part flowers raceme

Rock cress/ Thaliana

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Arapidopsis

BRASSICACEAE FAMILY

basal rosette lvs

white, tiny flowers stalked

Queen Anne's Lace

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Daucus carota

APIACEAE FAMILY

white, flat umbrel stalked flowers with purple one in center

Common milkweed

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Asclepias syriaca

opposite leaves

curved pinn. veins

short inward curved horns with purple hoods for flower

Periwinkle

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Vinca minor

APOCYNACEAE FAMILY

trailing shrub

opp, eliptical lvs

blue, 5 part flower

Cleavers/bedstraw/galium

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Galium aparine

RUBIACEAE FAMILY

"velcro plant"

whorls of 6 lvs

white to green 4 part flowers tiny

Mouse-ear chickweed

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Cerastium vulgatum

CAROPHYLLACEAE FAMILY

sepals not longer than petals

notched deep to appear like 10 petals instead of 5

Bladder campion

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Silene vulgaris

CAROPHYLLACEAE FAMILY

tubular with purple ridges

opens at night

Spring Beauty

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Claytonia virginica

PORTULACEAE FAMILY

pink,5 part flowers

opp. pairing on stem

Mullein

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Verbascum thapsus

SCROPHULARICEAE FAMILY

basal rosette first year

softly hairy

yellow flowers with spike like cluster

Ground Cherry

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Physalis virginiana

SOLONACEAE FAMILY

yellow, 5part flower

orange berry for fruit

hairy on both sides

Field mint

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Mentha arvensis

LAMIACEAE FAMILY

sq stem, lvs opp.

pink/white whorled clusters of flowers along stem

Motherwort

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Leonurus cardiaca

sq stem,

opp, drooping

whorled clusters of 5 part flowers on leaf stem

Creeping charley

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Glechoma hederacea

LAMIACEAE FAMILY

opp, cordate crenate lvs

purple, 3 short stalked flowers

INVASIVE

Bluebell

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Mertensia virginica

BORAGINACEAE FAMILY

blue bell shaped clusters of flowers (connate/trumpet like)

Yarrow

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Achillea millefolium

ASTERACEAE FAMILY

finely cut featherly leaves

white head flowers

Robin's plantain

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Erigeron pulchellus

ASTERACEAE FAMILY

ray flower with yellow disk center

mostly basal clasping lvs

Oxeye daisy

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Leucanthemum vulgare

ASTERACEAE FAMILY

alternate, lobed lvs

disk, rays with 15-35 florets

Goldenrod

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Solidago sp.

ASTERACEAE FAMILY

narrow, entire and possibly hairy lvs

yellow ray heads usually pointing on one side

Dandelion

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Taraxcum officiale

ASTERACEAE FAMILY

basal, deep sinuses lvs

yellow ray florets