Common North American trees identified by leaf shape and edge pattern, distinct from the general tree ID basics deck.
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- Which North American tree has palmate leaves with 5-7 lobes and serrated edges in opposite arrangement?
- Sugar maple
- Red oak leaves are lobed with what distinctive feature at the tip of each lobe?
- Bristle tips
- How do white oak leaf lobes differ from red oak?
- White oak lobes are rounded, not pointed
- Pin oak leaves are deeply lobed and arranged what way on the stem?
- Alternately (alternate arrangement)
- Which tree has small, triangular leaves with doubly serrated edges?
- Birch
- Quaking aspen leaves tremble in the breeze due to a unique feature. What is it?
- Flat petioles (flattened leaf stalks)
- Eastern cottonwood leaves are triangular with what distinctive feature?
- Flattened petioles
- Willow tree leaves are characteristically long and narrow with what edge pattern?
- Finely serrated (finely toothed)
- American elm leaves have an asymmetrical what, making them distinctive?
- Leaf base
- Red maple leaves are often 3-lobed or unlobed and arranged what way?
- Opposite
- Flowering dogwood leaves have entire margins and distinctive what feature?
- Veins that curve to follow the leaf margin
- Sweetgum leaves have a distinctive star-shape with how many lobes?
- 5-7 lobes
- Crabapple leaves are small, simple, oval-shaped with what edge pattern?
- Serrated (toothed edges)
- Wild cherry tree leaves are lanceolate with fine serrations and arranged what way?
- Alternately (alternate)
- Spicebush leaves are simple with entire margins and become what when crushed?
- Aromatic