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Field Botany

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1. Rosaceae - sorbaria sorbifolia
White Sage
Paper Birch
False Spireae
Wintergreen Barberry

2. Fagaceae - Quercus robur
White Fir (rounded blunt tips - smells citrusy)
Mossy-Cup Oak (feathery acorn - middle lobes almost to middle)
English Oak (short petiole and and lobes at base very small)
Cultivated Rose

3. Betulaceae - alnus incana
Thin-leaf alder
Snowball Bush
American Linden
Utah Juniper (one seed in the seed cone)

4. Taxaceae - Taxus cuspidata
Japanese Yew (Flat Plane)
Green Ash
English Yew (v-shaped)
Leatherleaf Viburnum

5. Platanaceae - Platanus occidentalis
American Sycamore (huge leaves - maple shaped)
Siberian Pea Shrub
Staghorn Sumac (Fuzzy everything!)
Mnt. Snowberry

6. Fagaceae - Quercus macrocarpa
Scots Pine (2 medium needles in fascicle)
Common Hackberry
Mossy-Cup Oak (feathery acorn - middle lobes almost to middle)
Japanese Wisteria

7. Pinaceae - Picea pungens
Bearberry Cotoneaster
Cranberry Cotoneaster
Colorado Blue Spruce (Cone has notches and larger needles)
Quaking Aspen

8. Fagaceae - fagus grandifolia
Japanese Maple
Arizona Cypress (cones look like horned brussel sprouts)
Pear
American Beech

9. Salicaceae - salix discolor
Joshua Tree
Leatherleaf Viburnum
American Pussy Willow
Japanese Barberry

10. Asparagaceae - yucca brevifolia
Joshua Tree
Desert-Willow
Concord Grape
Golden St. Johnswort

11. Rosaceae - pyracantha coccinea
Pyracantha
Alder-leaf Mnt. Mahogany
Cultivated Rose
Lavender

12. Moraceae - morus alba
Squawbush
English Ivy
White Mulberry
Japanese Pagoda

13. Cupressaceae - Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Concord Grape
Japanese Yew (Flat Plane)
Giant Sequoia (REALLY spiky)
Dawn redwood (yew shaped leaves)

14. Malvaceae - hibiscus syriacus
Arizona Cypress (cones look like horned brussel sprouts)
Rose-of-Sharon
European Hornbeam
Hybrid Yew (leaves all the way around)

15. Caprifoliaceae - symphoricarpos oreophilus
Japanese Barberry
Scrub Oak
Mnt. Snowberry
Common Snowberry

16. Bignoniaceae - catalpa speciosa
Mnt. Snowberry
Catawba
Japanese Zelkova
Leatherleaf Viburnum

17. Cupressaceae - Juniperus osteosperma
Utah Juniper (one seed in the seed cone)
Chokecherry
Netleaf Hackberry
European Beech

18. Garryaceae - aucuba japonica
Corkscrew Willow
Gold Dust Plant
Purple Ninebark
Pinyon Pine (2 short medium needles in fascicle)

19. Sapindaceae - acer griseum
Common Snowberry
Rocky Mnt. Maple
Paperbark Maple
Tamarisk (Salt Cedar)

20. Bignoniaceae - chilopsis linearis
Sugarberry
Desert-Willow
White Mulberry
Climbing Euonymus

21. Rosaceae - physocarpus opulafolius
Big Sagebrush
Purple Ninebark
Silver Maple
Sycamore (smaller leaves - maple shaped)

22. Betulaceae - carpinus caroliniana
Sugar Maple
Bald cypress (feathery leaves)
Winged Euonymus / Burning Bush
American Hornbeam

23. Betulaceae - betula pendula
Leather-leaf Mnt. Mahogany
European White Birch
Sweet Gum
American Elm

24. Celastraceae - euonymus japonicus
Japanese Euonymus
Ohio Buckeye
Littleleaf Linden
Pyracantha

25. Ulmaceae - ulmus pumila
English Oak (short petiole and and lobes at base very small)
Mugo Pine (cup shaped - shrubby - 2 needles in fascicle)
Siberian Elm
Colorado Blue Spruce (Cone has notches and larger needles)

26. Caprifoliaceae - diervilla sessilifolia
Apple
Staghorn Sumac (Fuzzy everything!)
Bristlecone Pine (resin ducts and 5 needles in fascicle)
Southern Bush Honeysuckle

27. Fabaceae - caragana arborescens
Hawthorn
Paper Birch
Weigela
Siberian Pea Shrub

28. Caprifoliaceae - symphoricarpos albus
Quaking Aspen
Colorado Blue Spruce (Cone has notches and larger needles)
Southern Bush Honeysuckle
Common Snowberry

29. Sapindaceae - acer campestre
Boxwood
Lilac
Hedge Maple
Climbing Nightshade

30. Moraceae - ficus carica
Common Fig
Japanese Euonymus
Bristlecone Pine (resin ducts and 5 needles in fascicle)
Western Wild Rose

31. Berberidaceae - berberis fremontii
Fremont Mahonia
Shrubby Cinquefolia
Southern Bush Honeysuckle
Chokecherry

32. Cupressaceae - Taxodium distichum
Willowleaf Cotoneaster
Catawba
Crabapple
Bald cypress (feathery leaves)

33. Juglandaceae - juglans regia
Norway Maple
European Hornbeam
Lilac
English Walnut

34. Betulaceae - betula occidentalis
Crabapple
River Birch
Bigtooth Maple
Japanese Honeysuckle

35. Rosaceae - prunus cerasifera
Flowering Plum
Red Osier Dogwood
Redbud
Common Honeysuckle

36. Asteraceae - artemisia tridentata
Big Sagebrush
Southern Bush Honeysuckle
Black Locust
Wintergreen Barberry

37. Rosaceae - Cotoneaster acutifolia
Ninebark
Japanese Pagoda
Rose-of-Sharon
Peking Cotoneaster

38. Sapindaceae - acer saccharinum
Forsythia
Silver Maple
Giant Sequoia (REALLY spiky)
Snowball Bush

39. Rosaceae - chaenomeles japonica
Cork Tree
Flowering Quince
Northern Red Oak (bristle tipped leaves)
Norway Maple

40. Salicaceae - salix exigua
Weigela
Sandbar Willow
Chinese Elm
Rocky Mnt. Juniper (smaller cones with multiple seeds)

41. Fabaceae - sophora japonica
Japanese Pagoda
Siberian Pea Shrub
Pottawatomi Plum
Corkscrew Willow

42. Elaeagnaceae - elaeagnus angustifolia
Russian Olive
Flowering Dogwood
Chokecherry
Cottonwood

43. Rosaceae - Cotoneaster apiculatus
Japanese Pagoda
Ohio Buckeye
Chinese Elm
Cranberry Cotoneaster

44. Sapindaceae - acer palmatum
Flowering Dogwood
Japanese Maple
Giant Sequoia (REALLY spiky)
Willowleaf Cotoneaster

45. Rosaceae - prunus americana
Tall Oregon Grape
Corkscrew Willow
Pottawatomi Plum
Forsythia

46. Salicaceae - salix purpurea
Japanese Pagoda
Oregon Grape
Bridal Wreath
Arctic Willow

47. Fabaceae - gymnocladus dioica
Weigela
Bigtooth Maple
European Larch (short needles that circle round)
Kentucky Coffee Tree

48. Adoxaceae - viburnum opulus
White Spruce (Cone w/out notches and smaller needles)
Snowball Bush
Squawbush
Japanese Euonymus

49. Apocynaceae - vinca major
Climbing Euonymus
Bristlecone Pine (resin ducts and 5 needles in fascicle)
Pear
Large Periwinkle

50. Sapindaceae - koelreutaria paniculata
Incense Cedar (seed cone with three splayed parts)
Bigtooth Maple
Golden Rain Tree
Rowan