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Tree Assignments - Climate Lab

 

Table 4.  Characteristics of leaves of deciduous woody plants in Central Minnesota - if your name doesn't appear, please contact me for an assignment
  Species    
1

Acer negundo � Box elder 

Patton  
2

Acer platanoides � Norway maple

   
3

Acer rubrum � Red maple

   
4

Acer saccharinum � Silver maple

   
5

Acer saccharum � Sugar maple

   
6

Acer  ginnala � Amur maple

   
7

Aesculus glabra � Buckeye

Joey  
8

Alnus incana � Speckled alder

   
9

Amalanchier canadensis � Serviceberry

   
10

Amorpha canescens � Lead plant

   
11

Aronia melanocarpa � Black chokeberry

   
12

Berberis thunbergii � Japanese barberry

   
13

Berberis vulgaris � Common barberry

Erik  
14 Betula alleghaniensis (=B. lutea) � Yellow birch    
15

Betula nigra � River birch

   
16

Betula papyrifera � White or paper birch

   
17

Carpinus caroliniana � Blue beech

   
18

Catalpa speciosa �  Common catalpa

   
19

Celastrus scandens � Bittersweet

Joy  
20

Celtis occidentalis � Hackberry

   
21

Cornus alternifolia  � Pagoda dogwood

   
22

Cornus foemina � Gray dogwood

   
23

Cornus rugosa � Round-leaved dogwood

   
24

Cornus stolonifera � Red osier dogwood

   
25

Corylus americana � American hazelnut

Jeremy  
26

Corylus cornuta � Beaked hazelnut

   
27

Crataegus sp. � Hawthorne

   
28

Diervilla lonicera � Bush honeysuckle

   
29

Dirca palustris � Leatherwood;

   
30

Eleagnus angustifolia � Russian olive

   
31

Euonymus alatus � Winged euonymus

Matthew  
32

Fraxinus americana � White ash

   
33

Fraxinus nigra � Black ash

   
34

Fraxinus pennsylvanica � Green ash

   
35

Gleditsia triacanthos � Honey locust

   
36

Gymnocladus dioica � Kentucky coffee tree

   
37

Ilex verticillata � Winterberry

Luke  
38

Juglans cinerea � Butternut

   
39

Juglans nigra � Black walnut

   
40

Lonicera tartarica � Honeysuckle

   
41

Ostrya virginiana �  Ironwood, Hophornbeam

   
42

Phellodendron amurense � Amur cork tree, Cork tree

   
43

Physocarpus opulifolius � Ninebark

Tameka  
44

Populus  nigra cv. italica � Lombardy poplar

   
45

Populus alba � White or silver poplar

   
46

Populus balsamifera � Balsam popular

   
47

Populus deltoides � Cottonwood

   
48

Populus grandidentata � Large toothed aspen

   
49

Populus tremuloides � Quaking aspen

Elizabeth  
50

Potentilla fruticosa � Cinquefoil

   
51

Prunus americana � Wild plum

   
52

Prunus pensylvanica � Pin cherry

   
53

Prunus serotina � Black cherry

   
54

Prunus virginiana � Chokecherry

   
55

Pyrus malus � Apple

Trey  
56

Quercus alba � White oak

   
57

Quercus bicolor � Swamp white oak

   
58

Quercus ellipsoidalis � Northern pin oak

   
59

Quercus macrocarpa � Bur oak

   
60

Quercus rubra (= Q. borealis) � Northern red oak

   
61

Rhamnus cathartica � European Buckthorn

Daniel  
62

Rhus glabra � Smooth sumac

   
63

Rhus typhina � Staghorn sumac

   
64

Ribes cynobasti  � Prickly gooseberry

   
65

Ribes lacustre � Swamp currant 

   
66

Salix discolor � Pussy willow

   
67

Salix exigua � Sandbar willow

Nate  
68

Salix nigra � Black willow

   
69

Sambucus canadensis � Common elderberry

   
70

Sambucus pubens � Red elder

   
71

Sorbaria sorbifolia � False spiraea

   
72

Sorbus aucuparia  � Mountain ash

   
73

Spiraea alba � Meadowsweet

Jim  
74

Symphoricarpos albus - Snowberry

   
75

Symphoricarpos occidentalis � Wolfberry

   
76

Syringa reticulata � Japanese tree lilac

   
77

Syringa vulgaris � Common lilac

   
78

Tilia americana � Basswood, Linden

   
79

Ulmus americana � American elm

Steve  
80

Ulmus pumila � Chinese elm

   
81

Ulmus rubra � Slippery elm

   
82

Viburnum lentago � Nannyberry

   
83

Viburnum rafinesquianum - Arrowwood

   
84

Viburnum trilobum � High-bush cranberry

   
85

Zanthoxylum americanum � Prickly ash

   

 

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