Plant ID2010

• Red pine

• 2 needles

• Needles long

• Bottle brushes

• Bark red plates

• Cones are 2-3

inches

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• Blue spruce

• Needles

• Short

• Pointy

• Boxy

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• White spruce• Needles

• Short• Not pointy• Boxy

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• Blue spruce cones

2.5 in – 4.5 in

• White spruce cones

1 in - 2.5 in

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• Honey locust

• Leaflets small

• Yellow in fall

• Seed pods straps

• May have thornsImage credit: prettywar-stl on Flickr

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• Crabapple

• Leaves toothed

• Crabapples

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• Bell’s Honeysuckle

• Flowers or fruit found in

pairs on leaf axil

• Forest edges

Image credit: M. Acker

Image credit: M. Acker

Fruit pairs at leaf axils

• Black Cherry

• Small, rusty brown hairs

underside of leaf

• Bark burnt potato

chips

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Rust brown hairs on black cherry leaf

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• Green Ash

• Compound, opposite

• 7-9 Leaflets

• downy stalks

• Winged fruit 1-3 in long

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Image credit: Nate Krinke

(thanks Nate!)

White down on leaflet stalks

White down on leaflet stalks

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• Mulberry

• 3 strong veins at the leaf

base

• Leaves are shiny

• Mulberry fruits

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3 strong veins meet at the base of mulberry leaves

• Elm

• Large tree

• Leaves are distinctly

asymmetrical at base

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• Red Osier Dogwood

• Leaves that are held by

“strings” when split

• Dark red stems

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• Eastern Cottonwood

• Large trees

• Triangle shape leaves

• Cottony seeds

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• Box Elder

• 3-5 leaflets

• Fruits are “V” shape

helicopters

• Waxy stems

• Invasive plant

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• Black-cap Raspberry

• 3 leaflets

• Raspberry fruit

• Leaflets are white

underneath

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• Virginia Creeper

• Vine

• 5 leaflets

• Fruit red on blue

stems

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Image credit: mechy411 on FlickrVirginia creeper blue berries on red stems… the berries are toxic.

Virginia creeper turns red in the fall.

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• Buckthorn

• Dark berries

• Thorns found at end of

twigs between two buds

• invasive

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Leaf veins follow edge of leaf

• Wild grape

• Vine

• Grape bunches

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• Black Walnut

• Up to 23 leaflets

• Spherical fruit

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• Willow

• Leaves long and

skinny

• Yellow branches

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The narrow leaves of a willow

• Silver Maple

• Deep, “U” shaped sinuses

• Pointy tipped lobes on leaves

• Many teeth on leaves

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• Prickly Ash

• Prickly

• Citrus smell

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Image credit: M. Acker

Compound leaf of prickly ash

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Thorns on leaves and stem of prickly ash

• Black oak

• Deep u-shaped sinuses

• Pointed lobe tips

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• Basswood

• Large heart-shaped leaves

• Unique hanging fruit

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• Lilac• Opposite or whorled leaves• Heart shaped leaf• Flowers grouped on panicles • Four petal flowers that make a

tube shape at baseImage: Virens on Flickr

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• Wild Parsnip• Rosette leaves found

near ground• Yellow bunches of

flowers• Photo-toxin creates rash

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• Stinging Nettle• Tall, herbaceous• Stinging hairs

cover plant leaves and stems

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• Canada goldenrod

• Tall herbaceous

• “feathery” yellow flower bunches

• Often seen on roadsides

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