Family: Acerace
Scientific: Acer negundo
Common: Ashleaf Maple
Notes: 3-5 Compound cenate leaves/ opposite twigs/ helicopter (samara) fruit/ thin light gray/brown bark with ridges warty when younger



Family: acerace
Scientific: Acer pensylvanicum
Common: Striped Maple
Notes: Opposite goose-foot leaves/ red twigs/ under story tree/ young bark has smooth prominent stripes



Family: acerace
Scientific: Acer rubrum
Common: Red Maple
Notes: Opposite simple leaves serrated margin/ samara has close wings/ sooth gray young bark darker fine scaly mature bark



Family: acerace
Scientific: Acer saccharum
Common: Silver Maple
Notes: Simple 5 sinus leaves a silvery white underside/ large samara fruit/ sooth gray young bark mature bark long thin strips



Family: acerace
Scientific: Acer saccharinum
Common: Sugar Maple
Notes: Iconic simple maple leaf 5 lobes/ Horseshoe shaped samara fruit/ rounded crown



Family: acerace
Scientific: Acer platanoides
Common: Norway Maple
Notes: Wide simple opposite 5-7 lobed leaves/ extrudes milky white sap from petiole/ widely diverging samara fruit



Family: Anacardiaceae
Scientific: Rhus typhina
Common: Staghorn Sumac
Notes: Alternate pinneatly compound leaves with lanceolate leaflets/ fuzzy new bark/ fruit dense red clusters/ small tree or shrub



Family: anacardiaceae
Scientific: Toxicodendron radicans
Common: Poison Ivy
Notes: Alternate compound leaf with 3 leaflets/ shiny green leaves/ red to gray twigs / may be vine carpet or bush



Family: Araliaceae
Scientific: Aralia spinosa
Common: Devil's Walking Stick
Notes: Bi or tri- pinnately compound leaves serrated at margins/ clusters of white flowers/ very stout and spiny twig u shaped leaf scar/ shrub or tree



Family: araliaceae
Scientific: Panax quinquefolius
Common: Ginseng
Notes: Serrate palmately compound leaves arranged in a whorl/ greenish-white one flower per stem



Family: Aquifoliaceae
Scientific: Ilex opaca
Common: American Holly
Notes: Alternate simple spiny tooth leathery leaves/ dull green flower red berries



Family: Berberidaceae
Scientific: Berberis thunbergii
Common: Barberry
Notes: Alternate simple entire margin leaves/ pale yellow flower red egg shaped berry/ Angled twigs with thorns at each node/ bush



Family: berberidaceae
Scientific: Podophyllum peltatum
Common: Mayapple, Mandrake
Notes: 6-8 inches tall/ grows in patches/ umbrella structure with white flowers or green-yellow olive-sized fruit



Family: berberidaceae
Scientific: Caulophyllum thalictroides
Common: Blue Cohosh
Notes: Green-purple stems/ one leaf per stem/ acute lobes of leaflets/ purple 6 pointed sepal flower wit yellow stamen



Family: Betulaceae
Scientific: Ostrya virginiana
Common: Iron wood
Notes: Alternate simple lanceolate leaves with doubly serrate margin/ fruit are leafy inflated sac hanging on one stem/ bark matures to shreddy appearance



Family: betulaceae
Scientific: Betula lenta
Common: Sweet Birch
Notes: Alternate simple ovate leaves/ petiole is stout and pubescent/ wintergreen smell when cut



Family: betulaceae
Scientific: Betula papyrifera
Common: Paper Birch
Notes: Distinctive white papery bark/ heart shaped serrate leaves



Family: Bignoniaeae
Scientific: Catalpa speciosa
Common: Catalpa (cigar tree)
Notes: Green cigar fruits hang/ whorled cordate leaves/ very showy trumpet flowers



Family: Caprifoliaceae
Scientific: Lonicera japonica
Common: Japanese Honeysuckle
Notes: Scrambling twisting vine/ opposite simple ovate leaves/ yellow and white flower with long petals



Family: caprifoliaceae
Scientific: Lonicera xylosteum
Common: European Honeysuckle
Notes: Shrub / egg shaped opposite leaves/ prolific red fruits



Family: caprifoliaceae
Scientific: Sambucus canadensis
Common: Elderberry
Notes: Clusters of blue-black fruit/ opposite pinnately compound leaves/ oblong or ovate leaflets/ flowers bunch with white corolla



Family: caprifoliaceae
Scientific: Viburnum dentatum
Common: Southern Arrowwood
Notes: Opposite dimple oval coarsely serrated leaves/ white flat topped clusters of flowers/ fruit are blue-ish black oval drupes 1/3 inch long/ velvety buds


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