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27 Cards in this Set
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Aesculus pavia – Red Buckeye |
• Leaves are palmately compound – opposite • Can tolerate flooding – enjoys rich humus soil and a more basic pH • Attracts hummingbirds and bees |
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Baccharis halimifolia – Groundsel-bush (Eastern Baccharis) |
• Leaves are grey green to deep green – alternate – obovate • Fruits are frothy in appearance – silky hairs • The overall shape is a rounded shrub |
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. Maclura pomifera – Osage-orange |
• Leaves are simple, alternate, ovate to oblong-lanceolate • Stems are orange brown with spines • Dioecious – male plants are used for urban trees because of their tough nature |
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. Rhamnus cathartica Common or European Buckthorn |
• Leaves are simple, subopposite, ovate-acute • Flowers are dioecious and green or yellow/green in color – blooms in May borne in umbels • Fruit is a dark blue/black drupe – birds love |
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. Hamamelis vernalis Ozark or Vernal Witchhazel |
• Flowers are yellow to red – some flowers can be yellow to orange to red – fragrance is sweet and pungent • Fruit is a capsule with two valves and ripen by Sept. or Oct releasing black seeds elongated and more deeply lobed – unequal leaf base |
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Acer campestre – Hedge Maple |
• Leaves – deep green with pubescence below • Samara fruits are two together and horizontal in appearance • Great for small areas and under powerlines |
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Hydrangea arborescens Smooth Hydrangea |
• Leaves are opposite, deep green and ovate • Flowers – green to white with a slight green • Fruit capsules are dehiscent producing dust-like seeds |
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Lagerstroemia indica Common Crapemyrtle |
• Leaves are privet-like – may appear opposite, upper alternate or in whorls • Flowers are perfect and are borne in terminal panicles • Fruit is classified as a capsule with 6 dehiscent valves – brown - .5” – persist in winter |
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Aronia arbutifolia Red Chokeberry |
• Leaves are alternate, obovate and acute or acuminate, simple 1-3+” long – evenly toothed with black tips • Flowers are white and perfect with red anthers – in corymbs 9-12 flowers • Fruit is a red pome which remains through the winter |
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Zelkova serrata Japanese Zelkova |
• Leaves are deep green and turn a handsome brick red with touches of yellow color in the fall – elliptical, acuminate and toothed • Bark sometimes can look like the Chinese elm but not as exfoliating – also may appear shiny or cherry like in early years • Known for its straight trunk |
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Viburnum acerifolium Mapleleaf Viburnum |
• Leaves are maple leaf shaped with three lobes coarsely dentate – deep green and slightly pubescent • Flowers – perfect – yellow/white • Fruit is black in appearance – drupe |
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Prunus subhirtella ‘Autumnalis’ Spring Cherry |
• Leaves are simple, alternate, oblong-obovate, acuminate and sharply sometimes doubly serrate • Flowers are semi-double - Pink during the fall open sporadically and then a full flowering in the spring |
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Hamamelis virginiana Common Witchhazel |
• Leaves – simple, alternate and obovate and obtuse – coarsely crenate - Dentate • Fruit is a capsule with 4 curved points • Flower on a cyme – yellow, perfect, fragrant – four twisted thread-like petals |
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Acer buergerianum Trident Maple |
• Leaves – three lobed – all facing forward – lustrous deep green when mature • Flowers insignificant fruit attractive samaras • Bark exfoliating |
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Carya ovata Shagbark Hickory |
• Leaves are pinnately compound with 5 leaflets • Flowers are monoecious – female terminal spikes with few flowers – male – 3-branched catkins • Fruit has four segmented valves with a hard shelled nut beneath |
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Parrotia persica
Persian Parrotia |
• Flowers occur in March-April – they are perfect and apetalous – most prominent feature of the flower are the stamens, which are crimson red and turning to yellow as they dehisce their pollen • Fruit is a capsule with two valves - brown • Bark exfoliates with a mottled appearance |
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Quercus macrocarpa Bur Oak |
• Leaves are wider at the top and narrow at the base, the lobes are rounded and the oval shape of the leaf is obovate • Fruit is borne singly with a stalk cap is deep and mossy • Bark – amazingly deep furrows |
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Quercus alba White Oak |
• Leaves – simple, alternate, obovate • Fruit is solitary with the cap being 1/3 the oval length of the nut • Bark is white/gray small plates with furrows – more vertical in appearance |
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Acer saccharinum Silver Maple |
• Leaves has 5 deep lobes – acuminate - green with lighter silver green beneath • Produces an abundance of samaras • These are the largest of the maple seeds in US |
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Aesculus parviflora Bottlebrush Buckeye |
• Leaves palmately compound elliptic crenate-serrulate medium-deep green in summer and yellow in the fall • Flowers are white with pink stamens and red anthers • Fruit – smooth capsule – pear shaped with light brown seeds |
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. Zanthoxylum americanum Toothache Tree |
• Leaves are pinnately compound • Flowers occur on previous season’s growth in the axils of the leaves in clusters before leaf break – dioecious – yellow/green in color • Woolly, red leaf buds • Fruits appear red or crimson – covering a black seed |
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Pseudolarix amabilis Golden-Larch |
• Leaves – deciduous – radiate from a center point • Flowers are monoecious opening in May or June – female flowers are solitary while males are clustered catkins in yellow • Fruit – solitary cones |
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Rosa virginiana Virginia Rose |
• Pinnately compound leafsdeep green in the summer turning to a beautiful purple to red-orange – serrate leaflet margins – glossy • Flowers are single in pink – fragrant and produce a beautiful red hip that persists during the winter |
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Viburnum dentatum Arrowwood Viburnum |
• Leaves – simple, opposite – round or subcordate. – deeply dentate • Flowers white cymes • Fruit is a drupe in a deep blue to black |
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Alnus glutinosa European Alder |
• Leaves – simple, alternate – ovate, – doubly serrate on the margin – deep green – glabrous • Monoecious catkins are 2-4” female flower is a egg shaped and red-purple in color yielding fruits that look like miniature cones – Persists |
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Ceanothus americanus – New Jersey Tea |
• Leaves are alternate, simple, ovate – sometimes cultivars have opposite leaves the edge of the leaf is serrated • Flowers are typically white – in 1-2” panicles • Fruits are small capsules |
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Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris climbing hydrangea |
• Leaves are opposite and cordate or heart shaped – 2-4” – serrated, • Buds are imbricated – green to brown sometimes can be reddish in color • Stems are red/brown and exfoliating – very attractive – produces adventitious roots that hold onto walls |
