Dendrology

Flash cards for the lab portion of FOR 205 or Dendrology.

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Resin blisters
Church steeple shape
Flat needles
Abies balsamea
balsam fir
Pinaceae
Spikey greenish cones
2 needle pine--twisted
Dry habitat preferred
Cones are serotenous
Pinus pungens
table mountain pine
Pinaceae
Needles in 3--twisted
"bearded limbs"
Round squat cones
Cones stay on tree
Drier habitat preferred
Pinus rigida
pitch pine
Pinaceae
2 needles--twisted
Lots of cones
"Scrubby" appearance
Can get really tall
Crown is limb heavy
Pinus virginiana
Virginia pine
Pinaceae
High elevation
native (Spruce Knob)
small cones
tree I climbed through to go to the bathroom
Picea rubens
red spruce
Pinaceae
2 needles--longish
reddish bark
needles break clean
northern native
sandy soil preferred
Pinus resinosa
red pine
Pinaceae
5 opposite leaflettes
Spiny shell with nut
Scratch twig-->bad smell
Aesculus glarba
Ohio buckeye
Sapindaceae
Opposite leaves
Leaflettes of 3
Shrub
Staphylea trifolia
Bladdernut
Staphyleaceae
Doesn't look like an oak
Acorns
red oak
alternate simple leaves
Shiny dark green leaves
Quercus inbricaria
shingle oak
Fagaceae
7-9 big leaflettes
big buds
hairy stem
Nut breaks in quarters
Carya tomentosa
mockernut hickory
Juglandaceae
Male and female species
Blocky bark
alternate simple leaves
smooth leaves
Yellow in fall
Winter fruit bearing tree
Diospyros virginiana
American Persimmon
Ebenaceae
Crucifix shape
White oak
kind of native
more southern
Quercus stellata
post oak
Fagaceae
Darker bark
Turkey foot leaves
Acorns take 2 years to mature
Quercus flacata
southern red oak
Fagaceae
Redish brown bark
Pulls off in thin strips
Fan shaped foliage
Cones are berries
Juniperus viriniana
eastern red cedar
Cuprasaceae
5 leaflettes--opposite
No bad smell
Silverish bark
No spiny cone
flattened bud scales
Aesculus flava
yellow buckeye
Sapindaceae