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opposite, palmate, pubescent leaves with entire sinuses (no serrations)
one edge of bark ridge turns outwards with age
- Acer floridanum (of Florida)
- Aceraceae (Maple); southern sugar maple
- *Fruit: samara (fall)
- wood used in furn, floor, baseball bats, bowling alleys/pins
- songbirds eat fruit
- landscaping
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- Asimina triloba (3-lobed flower)
- Annonaceae; pawpaw
- Fruit: berry
- fruit skin can cause rash in some people
- fruits eaten by turkey, small mammals, humans
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- Carya cordiformis (heart-shaped)
- Juglandaceae; bitternut hickory
- Fruit: nut similar to red hickory
- wood use same as other hickories (pecan)
- squirrels eat fruit
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Alt, compound
5 large leaflets per leaf
very shaggy bark on mature trees
- Carya ovata (egg-shaped)
- Juglandaceae; shagbark hickory
- member of true hickory section (not pecan)
- *Fruit: nut w/ THICK husk
- squirrels eat nut, sometimes humans
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smooth, gray bark w/ warty outgrowths above 8ft
alt. simple, 3x longer than wide
asymmetric leaf base
- Celtis laevigata (smooth)
- Ulmaceae (Elm); sugarberry
- Fruit: drupe
- wood used for steam-bent furn.
- songbirds eat fruit
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alt. simple, serrated
skinny thorns!
- Crataegus sp.
- Rosaceae; hawthorn
- fruit: pome
- difficult/unstable genus
- songbirds eat fruit
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smooth, silvery, thin bark
alt. simple, pinnate, may be pubescent;
long brown bud
- Fagus grandifolia (large-leaved)
- Fagaceae (Beech); beech
- *Fruit: nut
- raw nuts toxic to humans
- squirrels eat fruit
- porcupines eat inner bark
- wood used for bowls, cutting boards
- beech bark disease killing beech trees in NY and PA
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small tree, often crooked, smooth gray bark
abundant short shoots, crenulate
- Ilex decidua (deciduous)
- Aquifoliaceae; possumhaw
- fruie: drupe
- eaten by songbirds - NOT humans
- dioecious
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thin, entire, fragrant leaves
tiny rounded flower buds at nodes
- Lindera benzoin
- Lauraceae (Laurel); spicebush
- fruit: drupe
- eaten by songbirds
- dioecious
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6+ lobes per side
hybrid
- Quercus x beadlei
- Fagaceae (beech); hybrid white oak
- hybrids cannot form between red and white sections
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shaggy bark (false-shagbarky)
coarsely crenate leaf, obovate/elliptical
cap scales free (not fused), hemispherical cap
- Quercus michauxii (named for french botanist)
- Fagaceae (beech); swamp chestnut oak
- *Fruit: nut (hemispherical cap, scales not fused)
- a white oak
- wetland restoration tree
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- Quercus pagoda (like a pagoda)
- Fagaceae; cherrybark oak, swam red oak
- *fruit: nut
- highest lumber value in red oaks
-
ski trails
deeply lobed leaves w/ flat base
lobes get wider away from base, some overlap!
- Quercus shumardii (named for TX geologist)
- Fagaceae; Shumard oak
- *Fruit: nut
- wood and wildlife similar to other red oaks
- landscape plant
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alt., linnear, serrate, glabrous leaves
- Salix nigra (black)
- Salicaceae (Willow); black willow
- Fruit: capsule
- lightweight wood
- formerly used for wooden limbs, black powder
- salicylic acid (aspirin)
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vine w/ sharp prickles
- Smilax sp.
- Smilacaceae; smilax, greenbrier
- Fruit: berry
- woody monocot
- songbirds eat fruit
- whitetail and humans eat young foliage
- potato-like rhizomes formerly chopped into flour or jelly
- tendrils are modified stipules
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- Staphylea trifolia (3-leaved)
- Staphyleaceae (Bladdernut); bladdernut
- *Fruit: capsule
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- Viburnum prunifolium (leaves like Prunus)
- Adoxaceae; blackhaw
- Fruit: drupe
- eaten by songbirds
- deer browse foliage
- 2nd largest viburnum
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