Acer platanoides

Norway Maple

Acer rubrum

Red Maple

Acer saccharum

Sugar Maple

Ailanthus altissima

Tree of Heaven

Amelanchier canadensis

Canadian Serviceberry

Carya ovata

Shagbark Hickory

Cercis canadensis

Redbud

Cornus florida

Flowering Dogwood

Betula nigra

River birch

Carpinus caroliniana

American Hornbeam

Norway Maple

Leaf: opposite, simple, palmately veined, 5-7 lobed with long pointed teeth.  Purple/black variety (crimson king) popular

Fruit: 2-wingered samaras, 1/2-2 inches

Bark: Gray-brown, corky, older tress shallowly furrowed with long narrow somewhat interlacing ridges

Form: Med sized tree, 80 ft tall, dense round crown

Red Maple

Leaf: palmately 3-lobed, with short broad leavesd. 2-6 inch long. Light green above, paler on bottom. Scarlet in autumn.

Fruit: key with slightly divergent wings, 1/2-1 inch long

Region: east of the mississippi to mid states

Sugar Maple

Leaves: simple, orgivular, palmately 5-lobed, 3-5 inches long, birght green top, pale below

Fruit: key u-shaped, parallel wings 1 inch long, red-brown, glabrous, mature in autumn

Bark: smooth and gray on young stems, dark gray thick and deeply furrowed with long scaly plates.

Wood: ipmortant in flooring and furnitire (strong, heavy, hard)

Habit: A handsome tree 60-80 ft high and 2-3 feet in diameter, dense broad rounded crown.

Region: northeast

Tree of Heaven

Leaves: alternate, deciduous, 1 1/2-4 feet long, pinnatelyh compound with 13-41 leaflets (3-6 inch long)

Fruit: oblong, twisted samara 1-1 1/2 inches long wiht seed in center, yellow-green in crowded persistement clusters

Bark: thin, gray, smooth, shall furrowed with age

Habit: handsome, naturalized 40-60 ft high and 2-4 ft in diamter, loose open crown with very large leaves

Canadian Serviceberry

Leaves: alternate, simpl,e ablong ovate to oval or ovate, 2-4 inches long, acute at apex, dark green hairless above, pale below

Fruit: berrylike pome, spherical, dark red to purple

Bark: thin light brown tinged with red, smooth or slightly furrowed with scaly ridges

Habi: shrub or small tree 25-40 feet high and 8-14 inches in dimater, crown open

Region: East of Texas

River Birch

Leaves: rhobmic ovate, often lobed, base wedge shaped, hairy below, 5-0 pairs of eins

Fruit: unique matures in may or junes, strobiles oblong, erect on stout predunchles, scales with narrow hairy erect lobes

Bark: thin, slamon-pink to red brown separating into thin, papery, curled strips furrowed nd scaly at base of old trees

Region: along missippii, south-east (except florida and most f louisiana and appalachians)

American Hornbeam

LEaf: allternate, simple, ovate to oval (long and thin), 2-4 inches long, two distinct sizes, decisiudous dull gray above, paler below

Fruit: small 1 seeded, ovoid, flat brown unwinged nut, attached to bse of halberd-sdhaped leafy involurce in loose strobils

Barl: thin smooth blue-gray often mottled with light or dark patches, fluted trunk an unmistakable character

Habit: large shrub or small bushy tree (40 ft high max, 1 foot in diamter) closed crown, flat topped with slender zigzag branches

Region: East of mississippi except florida and maine

Shagbark Hickory

Leaves: 8-14 inches long with 5 leaflets, obovate to ovate lanceolate, terminal 5-7 inches long and usually much longer than lateral, finely serrate margins, thick dark green above, yellow green below.

Fruit: globose and ellipsoidal, 1-2 1/2 inches long, husk, nut 4-ribbed with thick shell and sweet seed

Bark: very chracteristgic on mature turnks, 3/4-1 inch think, gray and breaking into thin plates 1-3 feet long free at one or both ernds, shagy appearance

Habit: 60-80 feet high and 1-2 feet in diamter narrow open crown and large branches

Region: East and North East, excepect coast of VA and south (no florida)

Redbud

Leaf: alternate, simple, broad ovate to reniform 3-5 inches in diamter, apex actu base cordate margins entire decisouds. Looks like an upside down apple or heart!

Fruit: srtalked flat oblong russet brown legume 2-3  1/2 inches long, tipped with remnant of style.

Bark: thin gray smooth, scaly on old trunks

Habit: shrub, small tree up to 40 ft high and 2 1/2 ft in dimater, ornamental

Region: Below great lakes, MIMAL and park of texas, stop at florida

Dogwood

Leavesw: opposite, simple, deciduos, 3-6 inches long, oval enitre thick, acute at apex

Fruit: ovoid scarlet droop 1/2 inch long in clusters of 3-4 flesh bitter, containg 2 cell pit

Bark: think, dark red brown, broken into small square blocks

Wood moderately important, very heavy and hard fine-textured (shuttles)

Habit: shrub or small tree rarely 40 ft high and 1 foot in diamter, bushy flat crown, valuable ornamental

Region: east of missippi and park of southern MIMAL, not in southern florida or north Maine, New hampshire