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Large 6-12 in, obovate leaves,smells like bell peppers, smooth brown bark, naked bud, forms thickets
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Annonaceae Asimina triloba pawpaw |
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Alternate, simple, stiff leathery leaves w/ spiny margins. evergreen, adults only have spine on the tip.Smooth grey bark, red drupe. Turns into a small tree. |
Aquifoliaceae Ilex opaca American holly |
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Trunk with spines (lost in adulthood) LARGE (torso size) bipin compound leaves. fleshy purple-black large drupe clusters w/ small fruits |
Araliaceae Aralia spinosa devil's-walkingstick |
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Multistemmed shrub, opposite, cmpd leaves. Like ash leaves w/ fat fleshy petiole. Lt tan bark, raised lenticels. large flat topped cluster of purple drupes. wet areas |
Caprifoliaceae Sambucus canadensis American elder (elderberry) |
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Looks like roughleaf, but isnt rough on top. opposite simple leaves w/ arcuate venation, flower and fruit (bluish purple) in open flat clusters. multistemmed, shreddy bark, found in wet sites in understory |
Cornaceae Cornus stricta stiff dogwood, swamp dogwood |
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alt, simple, deciduous leaves w/ variable margin. ratty in the fall, turns colors early, twigs have a diaphragm pith and multicolored buds (green, brown, purple) agular branches, ridged->blocky bark when aging |
Nyssaceae Nyssa sylvatica blackgum |
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alt, simple, evergreen/late deciduous oval leaves. fruit like small blueberry (black fruit). GREY twigs, slightly flaky bark w/ cinnamon undertone. Dry forest large shrub/small tree |
Ericaceae Vaccinium arboreum tree huckleberry (sparkleberry) |
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max 1 inch evergreen leaves, GREEN twigs. multistemmed shrub, wet to dry sites. 1cm max "blueberries" in June |
Ericaceae Vaccinium elliottii Elliott’s huckleberry |
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Cigar shaped buds, alt simple leaves that stay on while dead. VERY parallel lateral veins that hook @ the leaf margin. Smooth grey bark |
Fagaceae Fagus grandifolia American beech |
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cup almost fully encloses acorns, asymmetrically lobed leaves, right angles, almost crosslike w/ lyre tip but is a wetlands/ bottomlands species, NOT like post oak |
Fagaceae Quercus lyrata overcup oak |
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alt, simple, deciduous leaves, obovate w crenate-wavy margins. 1.5 in acorns. light bark w ashy grey, loose scaly plates. bottomlands |
Fagaceae Quercus michauxii swamp chestnut oak |
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linear willow like leaves, .5in acorn w shallow cup. tight smooth steel grey bark w/ shallow furrows. bottomlands |
Fagaceae Quercus phellos willow oak |
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above ground rootlets in areas w ponding, half moon leaf scar, bud sits on top. pinnately cmpd opposite leaves. samara w paddle like wing , diamond patterned, chiseled furrowed bark. Leaves darker than white ash on the underside, usually. Bottomlands |
Oleaceae
Fraxinus pennsylvanica green ash |
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opposite or whorled simple elliptical leaves. round, tight clusters of flowers (pom-poms). balls of nuts (looks like small osage-orange) that fragment when dry. vertically flaky bark. Wetlands species, forms thickets (which may be leafless) |
Rubiaceae Cephalanthus occidentalis common buttonbush |
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Not a willow, multistemmed shrub. alt simple finely serrate leaves. Upright, terminal raceme flowers and fruits (like teensy okra- clusters of capsules) grows next to water. |
Saxifragaceae (GROSSILARIACEAE) Itea virginica Virginia willow |
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monocot, alt simple glossy green leaves, green twigs. shiny black berry, climb w tendrils. woody green vine |
Smilacaceae Smilax spp. greenbrier greenbriar |
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female cones are golfball size, fragment at maturity. twigs and leaves: feathery/sparse looking. deciduous, loses twigs and leaves. swamps and rivers. shreddy bark, fluted bottom of trunk, cypress knees |
Taxodiaceae (Cupressaceae) Taxodium distichum var. distichum baldcypress |
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small tree, multistemmed. alt simple deciduous leaves w serrate margins and asymmetrical base. small drupe, grey brown bark w/ loose scales. reddish inner bark: bark exfoliates. Wet sites |
Ulmaceae Planera aquatica planertree |
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lighter green, possibly lobed leaves. alt simple, toothed, red fuzziness on underside of leaves. forked tendrils, and edible .5 in fruit |
Vitaceae Vitis aestivalis summer grape |
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climbing vine w tendrils. chordate leaves w/ dentate margin. clusters of fleshy dark colored fruits. smooth, dark brown, loosely shreddy bark, NO forked tendrils |
Vitaceae Vitis rotundifolia muscadine grape |
