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Prunus pensylvanica
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Prunus virginiana
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Apple, Malus pumila = common apple
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| Purple Flowering Raspberry |
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Robina pseudoacacia
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Gleditsia triacanthus
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Gymnocladus dioicus
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Cladrastris kentukea
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Cercis canadensis
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Elaragnus angustifolia
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Cornus stolonifera
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Cornus alternifolia
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Cornus canadensis
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Ilex verticilata
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Nemopanthus mucronta
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Aesculus hippocastanum
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Black Cherry
Prunus serotina
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Leaves: 6" oblong-lanceolate; finely serratem orange pubescence alng mid vein below, glandular petiole
Twigs: red-brown, bitter almond taste/smell, buds with imbricate scales (black on top of scale)
Bark: red-brown to black w/ light horizontal lenticels, medium sized tree, moist well-drained sites
Uses: quality hardwood, fine furniture, timber |
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Pin Cherry
Prunus pensylvanica
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Leaves: Deciduous, lanceolate, finely serrate, yellow-green, petiole glandular
Twigs: Reddish, bitter taste, reddish brown buds, small + clustered
Fruit: light red drupe Bark: burgundy with Orange lens-shaped lenticles
INFO: small young, pioneer tree, |
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Choke Cherry
Prunus virginiana
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Leaves: Deciduous, obovate, serrate, glandular petiole.
Twigs: Reddish-brown, bitter taste, two toned buds
Fruit:red/black/yellow drupe in racemes
Bark: smooth, dark red brown/gray
Info: intolerant, pioneer,most widely distributed |
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Serviceberry
Amelanchier
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Leaves: alternate, simple, finely serrate - entire
Twigs: red-brown gray
Buds:conicl, long, sharp with few imbricate scales
Fruit: sugar plum, dark purple fall ripe
Bark: thin smooth gray streaked longitudinally with darker lines can get furrowed
Info: small tree/shrub |
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Hawthorne
Crataegus
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Leaves: S.D.A. serrate
Twigs: zigzag, armed with long stiff thorn
Buds: globose, lustrous brown
Fruit: pome in a corymb
Bark: dark gray/red scaley
Info: intolerant shrub,very hard wood |
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Malus
Malus pumila = common apple
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Leaves: S.D.A. Elliptical ovate, serrate, pubey below
Twigs: stout, white pubey buds, spur shots
Fruit: pome Bark: smooth when young scaly as oldens
Silvics: introduced colonially |
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American Mountain Ash
Sorbus americana
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Leaves: A. D. pinnately compound, 2"-4" lanceolate leaflets, serrate margins accuminate tip, sessile, glabrous
Twigs: red-brown, dark purple buds gummy pubescent
Fruit: clusters red-orange pomes persistant
Bark: thin, light gray, smoothish
Info: small, intolerant, higher elevations |
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European Mountain-Ash
Sorbus aucuparia
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Leaves: A. D. pinnately compound, 2" lanceolate leaflets, serrate margins more blunt tip, sessile, pubey
Twigs: red-brown, dark purple buds gummy densly white pubescent
Fruit: clusters orange pomes persistant
Bark: thin, light gray, smoothish
Info: small, european |
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A.S.serrate
Twigs:slender, leaf scars raised, 1 bundle scar, Fruit: panicle/corymb persistant in winter
Bark: Papery
Info: shrub, moist open sites |
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| prickly stemmed shrub D.A. pinnately compound leaves with prominent stipules, fruit hips generally red fleshy contain several achenes and remaine on the plant all winter |
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Blackberry/ Raspberry
Rubus
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Blackberry: angled case, blackberrys, palmately compound
Raspberry: terete canes, leaf contrast, raspberrys pinnately compound |
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Purple Flowering Raspberry
Rubus oderata
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| maple leafed, showy purple flowers, two point breakages on stem. |
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Black Locust
Robina pseudoacacia
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D.A. Pinnately comp. Elliptical ovate, entire, dull green-blue.
Twigs: stipular spines,tiny naked lateral buds often superposed.
Fruit: flat brown legume 2- 4"
Bark: reddish brown to black deeeeep furrows
Info: intolerant, Medium very dense, rot resistant, Nitrogen fixing, inner bark poisonous |
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Honeylocust
Gleditsia triacanthus
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Leaves: D.A. pinnately & bipinnately lanceolate elliptic, crenulate margins glabrous Twigs: 3-branched thorn tiny bds superposed
Fruit: red/brown/ purple twisted legume 7 -15" long bark: brown>black platey or scaly ridges Info medium intolerant |
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Kentucky Coffeetree
Gymnocladus dioicus
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D.A. bipinnately compound ovate, entire. Buds: small downy deeply sunken surrounded by incurved hairy ring of bark. Fruit: woody dark reddish legume 4 -10" long Bark: thick dark grayscaly
Info: dioecious, medium intolerant |
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Yellowwood
Cladrastris kentukea
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D.A. pinnately comp. alternate leaflets obovate entire. Twigs: buds naked enclosed within petiole
Fruit: 3- 4 " legume Bark: Smooth thin gray Info: white flowers, ornamental, small/medium |
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Eastern Redbud
Cercis canadensis
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A.S.D. cordate, broad entire palmate veins. Twigs: slender small buds, imbricate red-brown scales.
Fruit: red-brown legume 3" Bark: gray smooth . scaly. info: small tolerant bottomland tree PINK flowers |
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Russin Olive
Elaragnus angustifolia
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S.A.D. lanceolate entire gray-green with silvery scaley covering
Twigs: spiney silvery scale like
Fruit: 1/2' ellipticl drupe like yellow-pink silvery scales covering Info: shrub, salt tolerant, |
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Flowering Dogwood
Cornus florida
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| Opposite D.S. entire marines latex. Valvate buds drupes small tree, red fruit blocky bark |
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| Opposite D.S. entire marines latex. Valvate buds drupes |
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| Opposite D.S. entire marines latex. Valvate buds drupes |
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Silky Dogwood
Cornus amumom
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| Opposite D.S. entire marines latex. Valvate buds drupes silky leaves, twigs dull purple, pubey, BROWN PITH, BLUE BERRIES |
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Red-stemmed dogwood
Cornus stolonifera
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| Opposite D.S. entire marines latex. Valvate buds drupes narrow leaves, smooth twigs, scarlet WHITE PITH WHITE BERRY |
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Round-Leaf Dogwood
Cornus rugosa
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| Opposite D.S. entire marines latex. Valvate buds drupes broad oval leaves twigs greenish-red or purple spotted WHITE PITH LGT BLUE BERRIES |
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Alternate-Leaf Dogwood
Cornus alternifolia
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| ALTERNTE D.S. entire marines latex. Valvate buds drupes upturned branches, dark blue BERRY, yellow dead branch |
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Bunchberry
Cornus canadensis
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| Opposite D.S. entire marines latex. Valvate buds drupes herbaceous |
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Black Tupelo
Nyssa slyvatica
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S.D.A. 5" entire obovate lustrous scarlet in fall.
Twigs: slender w/ spur shoots. ovoid buds. imbricate buds Fruit: dark blue drupes pith = ribbed Bark: thick reddish-brown alligator hided info: intolerant medium moist & dry uplands |
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American Holly
Ilex opaca
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| S.A. persistant leathery elliptical entire or spiny toothed. Twigs: leaf scars with single budle scar Fruit: red drupe, dioecious, Info; small tree christmasy |
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Winterberry
Ilex verticilata
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| Leaves: A.S.D. elliptical obovate acuminate serrate. Twig: superposed buds single bundle scar Fruit: globose, bright red drupe like berry in pairs Info: wet sites |
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Mountain Holly
Nemopanthus mucronta
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| A.S.D. elliptical entire apex with a small mucronate tip purple petiole. Twigs: young twigs purplish single bundle scar Fruit: red drupe on longer stalk Info: shrub, cool moist habitats |
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Horsechestnut
Aesculus hippocastanum
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5-7 obovate serrate leaflets. D. Twigs: large leaf scars imbricate dark resinous sticky buds Flowers: long panicel, white w/ red Fruit: spiny
Bark: Scaly
Info: european, ornamental upturned branch ends. |
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