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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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