Tree Identification

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Deciduous Trees

Trees that losses their leaves in the Fall

Simple Leaves

American Beech

American HornbeamSmooth bark that looks like muscles

Black Cherry

Most likely will have black spots on leaves

Black Tupelo

Blackjack Oak

Eastern Redbud

Flowering Dogwood

Laurel Oak

Live Oak

Pin Oak

Post Oak

Red Maple

Red Mulberry

Leaves have three different shapes

River Birch

Has exfoliating bark

Sassafras

Leaves have three different shapes

Sourwood

Southern Bayberry

Southern Magnolia

Southern Red Oak

Has hairs on the end of lobes

Swamp Chestnut Oak

Sweetbay

Sweetgum

Can have corky projectiles on stems, look like wings

Sycamore

Leaves can be very large

Turkey Oak

Water Oak

White Oak

Bark is light in color

Willow Oak

Winged Elm

Most stems will have corky projectiles that look like wings

Yellow Hawthorn

Yellow-Poplar

Compound Leaves

Boxelder

Honeylocust

Has large seed pods and large thorns, double pinnately compound

Pecan

13 leaflets normally

Mockernut Hickory

7 leaflets, where stems are broken has unique smell

Red Buckeye

Leaves are arrange in an arc from same spot

Shagbark Hickory

5 leaflets, has unique smells where stem is broken

Evergreen

American Holly

Broadleaf evergreen, edges are pointed

Baldcypress

Eastern Hemlock

Eastern Redcedar

Leyland Cypress

Loblolly Pine

Needles are in bundles of 3

Longleaf Pine

Needles are in bundles of 3

Pond Pine

Shortleaf Pine

In bundles of 2 and 3

Slash Pine

In bundles of 2 and 3

Cabbage Palmetto

State Tree, palm tree