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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: single needles

  1. Eastern hemlock
  2. Dawn redwood

Leaves: needles in bundles of 2

  1. Austrian pine, black pine
  2. Scots pine

Leaves: needles in bundles of 5

  1. White pine

Leaves: needles in bundles of more than 5

  1. European larch
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Leaves are fan-shaped

  1. Ginkgo, maidenhair tree
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Leaves are compound

Leaves: pinnately compound - made up of 3 to many leaflets

  1. White ash
  2. European ash
  3. Red or green ash
  4. Kentucky coffee-tree
  5. Kentucky yellow-wood
  6. Black locust
  7. Honey locust
  8. Tree-of-heaven, Chinese sumac
  9. Black walnut
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Leaves: palmately compound - made up of 5 to 9 leaflets

  1. Ohio buckeye
  2. Horsechestnut
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Leaves are lobed

Leaves: palmately lobed

  1. Amur maple
  2. Norway maple
  3. Sycamore maple
  4. Silver maple
  5. Sugar maple
  6. London plane-tree
  7. Washington thorn
  8. Tulip-tree
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Leaves: pinnately lobed

  1. Swedish whitebeam
  2. White poplar
  3. White oak
  4. Bur oak
  5. English oak
  6. Red oak
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Leaves: simple with smooth edges

  1. Eastern redbud
  2. Black-gum
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Leaves are simple with toothed edges

Leaves: simple with toothed edges AND asymmetrical base

  1. Tabletop elm OR
  2. Scotch elm
  3. Common hackberry
  4. Little-leaf linden
  5. Large-leaf linden
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Leaves: simple with toothed edges and symmetrical base

    Alder

    1. Grey alder

    Apple

    1. Dolgo crabapple
    2. Common apple

    Beech

    1. Copper or purple beech

    Birch

    1. European white birch

    Hop-hornbeam, Ironwood

    1. Hop-hornbeam

    Katsura-tree

    1. Katsura-tree
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    Pear

    1. Bradford pear
    2. Common pear

    Poplar

    1. White poplar
    2. Eastern cottonwood
    3. Trembling aspen
    4. Carolina poplar

    Serviceberry

    1. Serviceberry

    Willow

    1. Corkscrew willow
    2. Hybrid crack willow
    3. Golden weeping willow

    Zelkova

    1. Japanese zelkova
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