FAC Trees
Has red leaves, red flowers, & red buds & opposite branching
What is Acer rubrum (Red Maple)?
Opposite branching, deeply dissected leaves, ridged or platy bark and often found in riparian floodplains.
What is Acer saccharinum (Silver maple)?
A tree's whose smooth bark breaks into scales that are curled outward on the sides - sometimes called "potato chip" bark
What is Prunus serotina (black cherry)?
A tree that has vertical red ski trails in its bark?
What is Quercus rubra (Red Oak)?
Common sedge, whose name derives from its fuzzy or wooly appearance.
What is Scirpus cyperinus (Common woolsedge or woolgrass)
OBLIGATE
Has chevrons on the bark
What is Betula populifolia (Gray Birch)?
Compound leaves with diamond-shaped ridges in its bark and found in wetter conditions than its FACU tree relative.
What is Fraxinus pennsylvanica (Green Ash)?
A tree whose smooth & unbroken light gray- bluish-gray bark becomes darker with age. Often with large, erupting blisters & cracks caused by fungi.
What is Fagus grandifolia (American Beech)?
FACU
A FACW shrub that has abundant shiny red berries in the winter.
What is Ilex verticillata (Winterberry)?
FACW
A FACW fern whose brown spore-bearing stalks persistent through the winter.
What is Onoclea sensibilis (Sensitive Fern)?
Has shiny golden peeling bark
What is Betula alleganiensis (Yellow Birch)?
Vase-shaped tree historically found on New England roads
What is Ulmus americana (American Elm)?
A tree that has white to grayish bark with thing dark lenticels, little to no peeling bark and has distinct Chevrons at the base of branches
What is Betula populifolia (Gray Birch)?
FAC
A shrub that has downward curving spines, is an Obligate, and has pink flowers and persistent red berry.
What is Rosa Palustris (Swamp Rose)?
Obligate
An obligate shrub whose spherical buttons persistent after the flowers are gone.
What is Cephalanthus occidentalis (Common buttonbush)?
OBLIGATE
Has distinctive "alligator hide" bark
What is Nyssa sylvatica (Black gum)?
The only conifer that drops its needles, with little cones on stalks
What is Larix laricina (Tamarack)?
A tree that has intersecting ridges that form diamond-shaped furrows
What is Fraxinus pennsylvanica (Green Ash)?
A shrub that has red dense stems and a dark brown pith & is FACW
What is Swida amonum (Silky Dogwood) ?
FACW
An obligate herbaceous plant found in wet soils and shallow lakes, rivers, marshes, fens, and ditches where it can aggressively colonize.
What is Typha latifolia (Broad-leaved cattail)?
Their resin blisters have distinctive sap & are commonly used as Christmas trees
What is Abies balsamae (Balsam Fir)?
An oak that has hairy leaf blades on under surface & loses its leaves in the winter.
What is Quercas bicolor (Swamp white oak)?
A FACW shrub that has loose coopery bark that hangs off
What is Vaccinium corrymbosum (Highbush blueberry)
FACW
A shrub that is found in bogs, fens, marshes, and shores of rivers or lakes and has persistent bright red berries.
What is Vaccinium macrocarpon (large carnberry)?
A FACW shrub that can be found in human-disturbed habitats, forest or wetland edges, meadow, swamps, and shores, and has lenticels and little persistent brown woody cones (strobiles)
What is Alnus incana (Speckled alder)?
FACW