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Plant Identification
Trees I
Horticulture I
Acer palmatum
 Common Name: Japanese Maple
 Small, deciduous tree
 Wide, palmate, deeply lobed leaves
 Fruit: Samara
 Popular landscape plant
 Fall: bright color, red, orange,
yellow, or purple
Acer rubrum
 Common Name: Red Maple
 Large, deciduous tree – 50’ tall
 Spring – Red flowers before leaves
 Summer – Dark green leaves, gray underneath
 Leaves – 3 – 5 lobes
 Fall – bright red leaves
 Bark – light gray
 Fruit – samara
Quercus palustris
 Common Name: Pin Oak
 large, deciduous tree
 Leaves: narrow, sharp, pointed lobes
 shiny, dark green
 Fall: red, bronze leaves
 Fruit: Acorns
Quercus phellow
 Common Name: Willow Oak
 Large, deciduous tree – 60’ high, 40’ wide
 Narrow green leaves
 Small acorns
Liquidambar styraciflua
 Common Name: Sweetgum
 Large, deciduous tree
 Leaves – dark green & star shaped
 Fall – yellow, orange, red, & purple
 Fruit – prickly burrs
Betula nigra
 Common Name: River Birch
 medium, deciduous tree
 Bark – thin, brown, peeling bark
 Multiple trunks
 Serrated leaves
Cercis canadensis
 Common Name: Eastern Red Bud (Judas Tree)
 Small, deciduous tree
 Leaves – heart shaped, 3-5” long
 Fruit – brown, bean type pods
 Spring – pink-purple flowers
 Fall – leaves turn dark red
Lagerstroemia indica cv.
 Common Name: Crape Myrtle
 small, deciduous tree
 Bark – light, tan, smooth
 Flowers – purple, white, pink, red
 Flowers all summer & early fall
 Mulit-trunked
Plant Identification
Trees 2
Horticulture I
Pinus strobus
 Common Name: Eastern White Pine
 Large, evergreen tree
 Clusters of needles 4” long
 flexible
 5 needles per cluster
 4-8 “ curving brown cones
Pinus taeda
 Common Name: Loblolly Pine
 Large, evergreen tree
 Needles in clusters of 3
 4-9” long needles
 Stiff needles & sometimes twisted
 dark brown 3-6” cones
Magnolia grandiflora
 Common Name: Southern Magnolia
 Large, evergreen tree
 Large, shiny leaves 5-10”
 Thick & leathery
 Elliptical shape
 6-9” white flowers
 Very messy – cone-like pods
 bright red seeds
Pyrus calleryana ‘Bradford’
 CN: Bradford Pear
 Medium, deciduous tree
 Spring – white flowers
 Fall – reddish, purple leaves
 Symmetrical shape
 Bad smell
 Simple leaves
 lush, green in summer
Malus sp. or cv.
 CN: Flowering Crabapple
 Medium, deciduous tree
 Ornamental
 Flowers – reddish pink
 Fruit: 1-2” crabapple
 Green, red, purple leaves in summer
 Simple serrated leaves
Cornus florida
 CN: Flowering Dogwood
 State flower of NC, grows wild
 Small, deciduous tree
 Crooked
 White flowers (or pink)
 bracts with brownish tip
 Red berries with hard seed
Prunus serrulata ‘Kwanzan’
 CN: Japanese Flowering Cherry
 Small, deciduous tree
 Flower: Double, pink
 Showy, large clumps
 Leaves: 3-5”, shiny
 Vase shape w/ spreading crown
X Cupressocyparis leylandii
 CN: Leyland Cypress
 Large, evergreen tree
 Short ½” cones
 Popular barrier tree
 Upright, pyramidal shape
 Scale-like leaves (awls)