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Field Botany

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1. Sapindaceae - acer glabrum
Horse Chestnut
Kentucky Coffee Tree
Rocky Mnt. Maple
Big Sagebrush

2. Asteraceae - artemisia ludoviciana
Japanese Barberry
English Yew (v-shaped)
White Sage
Large Periwinkle

3. Rosaceae - prunus americana
Cork Tree
Pottawatomi Plum
Bearberry Cotoneaster
Common Fig

4. Berberidaceae - berberis repens
Incense Cedar (seed cone with three splayed parts)
Quaking Aspen
Oregon Grape
English Yew (v-shaped)

5. Sapindaceae - acer plantanoides
American Linden
Japanese Yew (Flat Plane)
Rocky Mnt. Maple
Norway Maple

6. Vitaceae - parthenocissus quinquifolia
Alder-leaf Mnt. Mahogany
Common Hackberry
Virginia Creeper
Dawn redwood (yew shaped leaves)

7. Rosaceae - sorbaria sorbifolia
Flowering Quince
White Mulberry
False Spireae
Wintergreen Barberry

8. Rosaceae - physocarpus malvaceus
Gold Dust Plant
Red Maple
Ninebark
Sugar Maple

9. Rosaceae - Rosa hybrid cultivar
Ninebark
Ginkgo
Cultivated Rose
White Fir (rounded blunt tips - smells citrusy)

10. Cupressaceae - Sequiadendron giganteum
Trumpet Creeper
Giant Sequoia (REALLY spiky)
Kentucky Coffee Tree
English Ivy

11. Pinaceae - Pinus mugo
Red Maple
Ohio Buckeye
Mugo Pine (cup shaped - shrubby - 2 needles in fascicle)
Atlas Cedar (Needles star clusters and birch cone)

12. Rosaceae - Cotoneaster apiculatus
Black Locust
Cranberry Cotoneaster
Amur Maple
Leather-leaf Mnt. Mahogany

13. Salicaceae - salix matsudana var. tortuosa
Juniper (shrub form)
Katsura Tree
Corkscrew Willow
Narrowleaf Poplar

14. Pinaceae - Picea glauca
Flowering Quince
White Spruce (Cone w/out notches and smaller needles)
Boxelder
Northern Red Oak (bristle tipped leaves)

15. Sapindaceae - acer tataricum
Large Periwinkle
Trumpet Creeper
Sandbar Willow
Amur Maple

16. Fagaceae - fagus sylvatica
Plum
European Beech
Sycamore Maple
Leatherleaf Viburnum

17. Hypericaceae - hypericum frondosum
Golden St. Johnswort
Flowering Plum
Kentucky Coffee Tree
Climbing Euonymus

18. Fagaceae - Quercus macrocarpa
Red Maple
Smokebush
Mossy-Cup Oak (feathery acorn - middle lobes almost to middle)
Oregon Grape

19. Adoxaceae - viburnum opulus
Bumald Spiraea
Quaking Aspen
Snowball Bush
Southern Bush Honeysuckle

20. Bignoniaceae - chilopsis linearis
English Walnut
Large Periwinkle
Desert-Willow
White Mulberry

21. Salicaceae - salix purpurea
Winged Euonymus / Burning Bush
Virginia Creeper
Common Snowberry
Arctic Willow

22. Pinaceae - Pinus sylvestris
Inkberry
Siberian Pea Shrub
Cliff Rose
Scots Pine (2 medium needles in fascicle)

23. Sapindaceae - acer rubrum
Mugo Pine (cup shaped - shrubby - 2 needles in fascicle)
Weeping Willow
Siberian Elm
Red Maple

24. Pinaceae - Pseudatsuga menziesii
English Walnut
Douglass Fir (Cone has hairy stuff)
Flowering Dogwood
Paperbark Maple

25. Juglandaceae - juglans nigra
Black Walnut
Japanese Honeysuckle
Japanese Barberry
Lavender

26. Ulmaceae - ulmus americana
American Elm
Horse Chestnut
Black Pine (2 long needles in fascicle and star bud)
American Pussy Willow

27. Rosaceae - crataegus sp.
Snowball Bush
Atlas Cedar (Needles star clusters and birch cone)
Hawthorn
Mugo Pine (cup shaped - shrubby - 2 needles in fascicle)

28. Pinaceae - Pinus nigra
Japanese Maple
Black Pine (2 long needles in fascicle and star bud)
Wintergreen Barberry
Flowering Quince

29. Ulmaceae - zelkova serrata
Bigtooth Maple
Shrubby Cinquefolia
Japanese Zelkova
Ohio Buckeye

30. Taxaceae - Taxus x media
Hybrid Yew (leaves all the way around)
Winged Euonymus / Burning Bush
Alder-leaf Mnt. Mahogany
Pyracantha

31. Tamaricaceae - tamarix chinensis
Tamarisk (Salt Cedar)
Leather-leaf Mnt. Mahogany
False Spireae
Leatherleaf Viburnum

32. Taxaceae - Taxus baccata
Japanese Honeysuckle
Rowan
Amur Maple
English Yew (v-shaped)

33. Malvaceae - hibiscus syriacus
Rose-of-Sharon
Fremont Mahonia
Hybrid Yew (leaves all the way around)
American Linden

34. Araliaceae - hedera helix
English Ivy
Mugo Pine (cup shaped - shrubby - 2 needles in fascicle)
Littleleaf Linden
Gold Dust Plant

35. Sapindaceae - acer griseum
Pyracantha
Paperbark Maple
Boxwood
American Linden

36. Anacardiaceae - rhus glabra
Climbing Euonymus
Red Sumac
Sugarberry
Dappled Willow

37. Pinaceae - Pinus flexilis
European Beech
Limber Pine (Flexible and 5 short needles in fascicle)
Pyracantha
Smokebush

38. Caprifoliaceae - diervilla sessilifolia
Magnolia
Ginkgo
Southern Bush Honeysuckle
Apple

39. Anacardiaceae - Rhus typhina
Staghorn Sumac (Fuzzy everything!)
Golden Current
Alder-leaf Mnt. Mahogany
Mnt. Snowberry

40. Cupressaceae - Juniperus sp.
European Hornbeam
Common Honeysuckle
Juniper (shrub form)
Oriental aborvitae (large and horned cone)

41. Sapindaceae - acer pseudoplatanus
Burkwood's Viburnum
Sycamore Maple
Climbing Euonymus
Alder-leaf Mnt. Mahogany

42. Hamamelidaceae - liquidambar styraciflua
Amur Maple
English Yew (v-shaped)
Wintergreen Barberry
Sweet Gum

43. Rosaceae - pyracantha coccinea
Japanese Zelkova
Rubber Rabbitbrush
Mormon Tea / Green Ephedra
Pyracantha

44. Fabaceae - gymnocladus dioica
Cottonwood
Kentucky Coffee Tree
Cork Tree
Northern Red Oak (bristle tipped leaves)

45. Malvaceae - tilia americana
American Pussy Willow
American Sycamore (huge leaves - maple shaped)
American Linden
Climbing Euonymus

46. Ulmaceae - celtis reticulata
European Larch (short needles that circle round)
Japanese Zelkova
Forsythia
Netleaf Hackberry

47. Pinaceae - Cedrus deodara
Northern Red Oak (bristle tipped leaves)
Hawthorn
Giant Sequoia (REALLY spiky)
Deodar Cedar (medium needles that circle round)

48. Salicaceae - salix exigua
English Walnut
Common Snowberry
Sandbar Willow
Plum

49. Hydrangeaceae - hydrangea sp.
Sugar Maple
English Ivy
Hydrangea
Desert-Willow

50. Rosaceae - purshia mexicana
Giant Sequoia (REALLY spiky)
Bald cypress (feathery leaves)
Colorado Blue Spruce (Cone has notches and larger needles)
Cliff Rose