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FNR Week 1 ID
| Common Name | ID Features |
|---|---|
| sugar maple | platey bark that peels from the side; salmon pink undertone; y branches; sharply pointed buds |
| American hornbeam, bluebeech, musclewood | muscle-like bark |
| black oak | blocky bark on bottom, ski track bark on top, pointy leaves with a hair point, fuzzy and pointy buds |
| white oak | blocky bark on bottom, platey bark on top, clustered/rounded/knuckle bud |
| black walnut | compound alternate leaves, very prominent chain-length bark, italian hand bud |
| shagbark hickory | bark peels from top and bottom, big almond bud with 2 scales |
| white ash | sand-like bark, chocolate chip bud |
| black cherry | often dark bark with burnt potato chip look, simple alternate leaves, sometimes has globs of sap |
| hawthorn | smooth gray bark with rust spots or white lenticles, highly serrated leaves, actual thorns that are the same color as the twigs |
| eastern cottonwood | super blocky, long, rectangular bark with deep fissures, Harry Potter wand twig with asparagus bud, leaves twirl in wind and are triangular |
| willow | curvy/strippy/messy bark, whippy twig, arches over a body of water |
| American elm | squishy bark, wafer-like when peeled, serrate leaves, twig is so stick, red and white under bark |