Opposite Branching
This hardwood tree has compound leaves with leaflets groups of 5-9, and a bud scar in the shape of half moon
What is Fraxinus americana Oleaceae ?
This plant is a low-growing wildflower with shiny evergreen leaves. If you were to taste it it would taste of wintergreen.
What is Gaultheria procubens Ericaceae?
This fern has fronds with leaflets that are toothless, with forked lateral veins on the underside. The spores interrupt the main stem
What is Osmunda claytoniana Osmundaceae?
This plant has bark that when young is reddish-brown, with scattered white lenticels. Its leaves are simple, and egg-shaped. This plant grows in wet areas and only get to around 25 feet tall.
What is Alnus incana ssp. rugosas Betulaceae?
This plant has 3 distinct leaf shapes, Simple smooth margined oval leaf, mitten shaped, and pitchfork shaped leaf.
What is Sassafras albidum Lauraceae?
This hardwood's leaves are palmately veined, with 5 distinced lobes. There leaves tend to be wider than they are long commonly sporting "tar spots".
What is Acer plantanoides Aceraceae/Sapindaceae?
This plant has a slightly zigzagging stem and can grow up to six inches tall, with one to three shiny, oviate, dark green leaves.
What is Maianthemum canadense Asparagaceae (Asparagus family)?
This fern has 3 broad, trangular leaves that split from a singular stalk.
What is Pteridium aquilinum Dennstaedtiaceae?
This plant has long leaves, serrated margins, and look like a more serrated and larger Fagus grandifolia
What is Castanea dentata Fagaceae?
This plant has white to gray bark, less peely than Betula papyrifera, leaves heart shaped and tip long/droopy like "elephant trunk"
What is Betula populifoli Betulaceae?
This shrub has small round leaves with arcuate venation. As well as producing 1/4in round berries with a white or with a blueish flush.
What is Cornus rugosa Cornaceae?
This plant originates from a single stalk, dividing into 3 stems, each with a 3-5 pointed oval leaflets
What is Aralia nudicaulis Araliaceae?
This fern remain evergreen throughout the year, the base of each leaflet has a boot shaped projection.
What is Polystichum acrostichoides Dryopteridaceae?
This plant has orange/yellow fuzz on underside of leaf around the middle vein, and has finely serrated leaf margin.
What is Prunus serotina Rosaceae?
This plant has soft deep sinuses, is heavily lobed, and the caps covers just the top of the acorn
What is Quercus alba Fagaceae?
This hardwood has blunt branches, with black buds that resemble chocolate chips
What is Fraxinus nigra Oleaceae?
This plant has 4in elliptical leaves that are doubly serrate, and usually have hairs along the veins. Fruit on female plants is a hard edible nut up to 1/2 inch long enclosed in a leafy, hairy, light green husk that extends beyond the nut by at least one inch to form a beak.
What is Corylus cornuta Betulaceae?
This fern has vibrant green fronds with serrated margins that tapers to a point at the end, with spores has a hidden under the frond.
What is Athyrium filix-femina Athyriaceae?
This tree has white-gray smooth bark with dark longitudinal fissures, to furrowed dark gray bark at the base of the trunk. With leaves that have large serrations.
What is Populus grandidentata Salicaceae?
This plant has simple leaves that occur in whorls of 5 to 9 at the tip of the stem with 1-3 small white flowers.
What is Trientalis borealis Primulaceae?
This plant has leaves with 3 distict lobes which are palmately veined. The leaves are serated with a fuzzy texture.
What is Viburnum acerifolium Caprifoliaceae (honey suckle family)?
This plant is a native shrub that grows in poor soils and fixes its own nitrogren, it has simple, narrow, deeply notched olive green leaves with rounded edges (tend to be ~4in long).
What is Comptonia peregrina Myricaceae ?
This fern has connected fronds, where the leaf material continues along the main stem connecting each frond to one another.
What is Onoclea sensibilis Onocleaceae?
This plant has acorns with caps that covers 1/2 of acorn, the leaves yellow/brown in fall, and the leaves are widest at end
What is Quercus bicolor Fagaceae?
This plant has opposite/compound leaves, made up of 3 leaflets, with serrated margins, and rounded buds. Often covered with waxy chalk like powder
What is Acer negundo Aceraceae/Sapindaceae?