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From the choices in the green box on the right, pick the group that best matches your leaf.
Leaves are needles or scales
Leaves are fan-shaped
Leaves are compound
Leaves are lobed
Leaves are simple with smooth edges
Leaves are simple with toothed edges
Leaves are needles or scales
Leaves: single needles
Eastern hemlock
Dawn redwood
Leaves: needles in bundles of 2
Austrian pine, black pine
Scots pine
Leaves: needles in bundles of 5
White pine
Leaves: needles in bundles of more than 5
European larch
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Leaves are fan-shaped
Ginkgo, maidenhair tree
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Leaves are compound
Leaves: pinnately compound - made up of 3 to many leaflets
White ash
European ash
Red or green ash
Kentucky coffee-tree
Kentucky yellow-wood
Black locust
Honey locust
Tree-of-heaven, Chinese sumac
Black walnut
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Leaves: palmately compound - made up of 5 to 9 leaflets
Ohio buckeye
Horsechestnut
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Leaves are lobed
Leaves: palmately lobed
Amur maple
Norway maple
Sycamore maple
Silver maple
Sugar maple
London plane-tree
Washington thorn
Tulip-tree
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Leaves: pinnately lobed
Swedish whitebeam
White poplar
White oak
Bur oak
English oak
Red oak
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Leaves: simple with smooth edges
Eastern redbud
Black-gum
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Leaves are simple with toothed edges
Leaves: simple with toothed edges AND asymmetrical base
Tabletop elm OR
Scotch elm
Common hackberry
Little-leaf linden
Large-leaf linden
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Leaves: simple with toothed edges and symmetrical base
Alder
Grey alder
Apple
Dolgo crabapple
Common apple
Beech
Copper or purple beech
Birch
European white birch
Hop-hornbeam, Ironwood
Hop-hornbeam
Katsura-tree
Katsura-tree
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Pear
Bradford pear
Common pear
Poplar
White poplar
Eastern cottonwood
Trembling aspen
Carolina poplar
Serviceberry
Serviceberry
Willow
Corkscrew willow
Hybrid crack willow
Golden weeping willow
Zelkova
Japanese zelkova
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