Tree ID

Watch the videos below to learn more about the characteristics used to identify a tree species. Be sure to check this page every other Tuesday for a new video or follow on Facebook @ Southeast Ohio Woods https://www.facebook.com/seohiowoods

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Click on the species that you want to learn more about:

arborvitae

amur corktree

ash, white 

ash, blue

aspen, bigtooth

aspen, trembling or quaking

azalea, flame

azalea, pinkster 

baldcypress

barberry, Japanese

basswood, American

beech, American

birch, paper

birch, river

birch, sweet

birch, yellow

bittersweet, oriental

bladdernut

blackberry

blackhaw

blackgum

boxelder

boxelder or poison-ivy

butternut or white walnut

buckeye, Ohio

buckeye, red

buckeye, yellow

burningbush

buttonbush

catalpa, northern

cherry, black

cherry, sweet

chestnut, American

coffeetree, Kentucky

cottonwood, eastern

devil’s walking stick

dogwood, alternate-leaf

dogwood, flowering

dogwood, silky

elderberry, American

elm, American

elm, red (aka slippery elm)

fir, Canaan

fir, Douglas

fringetree

ginkgo

grapevine

greenbrier, common (aka saw brier)

hackberry

hazelnut, american

hemlock, eastern

hickory, bitternut

hickory, mockernut

hickory, pignut

hickory, shagbark

hickory, shellbark

holly, American

holly, winterberry

honeylocust

honeysuckle, Amur

honeysuckle, coral 

honeysuckle, Japanese

hornbeam, American

hydrangea, wild

ironwood (eastern hophornbeam)

larch, eastern

laurel, mountain

leatherwood

locust, black

magnolia, bigleaf

magnolia, cucumber

magnolia, umbrella

maple, black

maple, red

maple, silver

maple, sugar

mulberry, red

ninebark, common

oak, black

oak, bur

oak, chestnut

oak, pin

oak, post

oak, red

oak, scarlet

oak, shingle

oak, swamp white

oak, white and prescribed fire

oak, white

olive, autumn

Osage-orange

partridgeberry

pawpaw

pear, Callery

persimmon

pine, Austrian

pine, eastern white

pine, pitch

pine, red

pine, scotch

pine, shortleaf

pine, Virginia

plum, American

poison-ivy

privet

raspberry, black

redbud, eastern

redcedar, eastern

redwood, coastal

redwood, dawn

rose, multiflora

rose, swamp

sassafras

serviceberry, downy

sourwood

spicebush

spruce, Norway

spruce, Sitka

strawberry bush

sumac, smooth

sumac, staghorn

sumac, winged

sweetgum

sweetshrub, common

sycamore, American

tree-of-heaven

Virginia creeper

wahoo, eastern

walnut, black

walnut, white

willow, pussy

witch-hazel

yellow-poplar

yew

 

Tree ID Basics –  Dave Apsley (OSU Extension) and Stephanie Downs (ODNR-Forestry)

 

Identifying the Trees in Your Woods:Using Leaf ID Key and References–  Dave Apsley (OSU Extension), Jim Downs (Hocking College), Tom Macy (ODNR-Forestry), and Stephanie Downs (ODNR-Forestry)

 

Winter Tree Identification – Dave Apsley, OSU Extension, and Jim Downs, Hocking College

 

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