Shade Tress – Part 2

Nursery Landscape Plant ID

Shade Trees

• Pin Oak• Red Maple• River Birch• Sugar Maple• Sweet Gum• Tulip Tree• White Ash

Tree Stem Leaf Arrangement Type of Leaf

Pin Oak Slender greenish brown

Alternate Simple 3-5” long

Red Maple Red to green glabrous stems

Opposite Simple 2-5” long

River Birch Pubescent, glabrous, turning

reddish

Alternate Simple 3-5” long

Sugar Maple Slender brown stems with lenticels

Opposite Simple 3-6” across

Sweet Gum Corky ridges on dark brown stems

Alternate Simple 4-7” across

Tulip Tree Aromatic when broken, green to reddish brown

Alternate Simple; 3-6” long

White Ash compound and oppositely arranged

Pinnately compound;

5-9 leaflets, 2-5” long

Pin Oak Slender greenish brown

Alternate Simple 3-5” long

Pin Oak Slender greenish brown

Alternate Simple 3-5” long

Pin Oak

Red Maple Red to green glabrous stems

Opposite Simple 2-5” long

Red Maple Red to green glabrous stems

Opposite Simple 2-5” long

Red Maple Red to green glabrous stems

Opposite Simple 2-5” long

Red Maple

River Birch Pubescent, glabrous, turning

reddish

Alternate Simple 3-5” long

River Birch Pubescent, glabrous, turning

reddish

Alternate Simple 3-5” long

River Birch

Sugar Maple Slender brown stems with

lenticels

Opposite Simple 3-6” across

Sugar Maple Slender brown stems with

lenticels

Opposite Simple 3-6” across

Sugar Maple

Sweet Gum Corky ridges on dark brown stems

Alternate Simple 4-7” across

Sweet Gum Corky ridges on dark brown stems

Alternate Simple 4-7” across

Sweet Gum

Tulip Tree Aromatic when broken, green to reddish brown

Alternate Simple; 3-6” long

Tulip Tree Aromatic when broken, green to reddish brown

Alternate Simple; 3-6” long

Tulip Tree

White Ash compound and oppositely arranged

Pinnately compound;

5-9 leaflets, 2-5” long

White Ash compound and oppositely arranged

Pinnately compound;

5-9 leaflets, 2-5” long

White Ash compound and oppositely arranged

Pinnately compound;

5-9 leaflets, 2-5” long

White Ash