Ilex glabra

Inkberry Holly

Simple alternate leaves, black stipules, serrate above the middle, drupes blue or black.

Hudsonia ericoides

Golden Heather

Short shrub, needle-like leaves

Clethra alnifolia

Sweet Pepperbush

Simple alternate leaves, obovate and serrate. True end bud. Twigs with tiny hairs. Raceme of fragile capsules.

Chamaecyparis thyoides

Atlantic White Cedar

Trees with flattened twings, opposite scale-leaves, round cones with opposite scales.

Chamaedaphne calyculata

Leatherleaf

Small shrub < 1 meter, Simple alternate leaves with brown scales on the underside and silver scales on the upper surface. Axillary flowers.

Eubotrys racemosa

Fetterbush

False terminal bud, lateral buds tiny, serrate leaves. Raceme of woody capsules.

Gaylussacia baccata

Black Huckleberry

Shorter shrub, leaves resin-dotted on both sides, not fragrant when crushed.

Gaylussacia frondosa

Dangleberry

Tall shrub, leaves resin dotted on the bottom, whitish beneath. Not fragrant when crushed.

Kalmia angustifolia

Sheep Laurel

Small shrub < 1 meter, leaves less than 2 inches long, light green and dull above. Fruit a capsule. Leaves leathery. 

Vaccinium coryumbosum

Highbush Blueberry

Tall > 1 meter, green branches, papillate, fruit a blue berry.

Vaccinium macrocarpon

Cranberry

Trailing shrub, leave slightly white below, ca. 1/2 inches long. Fruit a red berry.

Vaccinium pallidum

Shortbush Blueberry

Short < .5 meters, branches green, papillate. Fruit a blue berry.

Quercus ilicifolia

Scrub Oak

End buds clustered, typically more than 5-lobed leaves. Grey tomentose below.

Quercus marilandica

Blackjack Oak

End buds clustered, leaves typically 3-lobed, obovate or trianglar obovate, minutely orange pubescent below.

Sassafras albidum

Sassafras

Fragrant when crushed. Leaves entire or 3-2 lobed, young branches green.

Morella pensylvanica

Bayberry

Fragrant when crushed. 3 bundle scars. Leaves with gland dots below, few above.

Pinus echinata

Short-leaved Pine

Leaves in 2-3, 1 mm wide. Twigs green, glaucous, cones with short week spines on the umbo.

Pinus rigida

Pitch Pine

Leaves in 3, about 2 mm wide, 7-12 cm long. Strongly twisted, twigs brown, not glaucous, cones with sharps spines on the umbo.

Pinus virginiana

Scrub Pine

Leaves in 2, 1 mm wide, 4-7 mm long, twigs purple-ish brown or glaucous and purple-ish grey. Cones with sharp spine on the umbo.

Acer rubrum

Red Maple

Leaves opposite, palmately lobed.