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Field Botany

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1. Pinaceae - Pseudatsuga menziesii
American Linden
Paperbark Maple
Silver Linden
Douglass Fir (Cone has hairy stuff)

2. Rosaceae - Rosa hybrid cultivar
Cultivated Rose
Cherry Laurel
Black Locust
Inkberry

3. Cupressaceae - Juniperus virginiana
Black Locust
Virginia Juniper (tree form)
Wintergreen Barberry
White Mulberry

4. Solanaceae - solanum dulcamara
Chokecherry
Climbing Nightshade
False Spireae
Beautybush

5. Ulmaceae - ulmus pumila
Siberian Elm
Burkwood's Viburnum
Red Sumac
Sycamore (smaller leaves - maple shaped)

6. Salicaceae - salix babylonica
Weeping Willow
Littleleaf Linden
Deodar Cedar (medium needles that circle round)
Trumpet Creeper

7. Ulmaceae - zelkova serrata
Japanese Zelkova
Mormon Tea / Green Ephedra
Silver Maple
Red Maple

8. Adoxaceae - viburnum opulus
Golden Current
Snowball Bush
Pyracantha
Narrowleaf Poplar

9. Sapindaceae - aesculus glabra
Shrubby Cinquefolia
Big Sagebrush
Sweet Gum
Ohio Buckeye

10. Oleaceae - fraxinus pennsylvanica
False Spireae
Green Ash
American Hornbeam
Dawn redwood (yew shaped leaves)

11. Rosaceae - spiraea x bumalda
Snowball Bush
Netleaf Hackberry
Black Pine (2 long needles in fascicle and star bud)
Bumald Spiraea

12. Rosaceae - prunus armeniaca
Apricot
Flowering Quince
Tree of Heaven
Black Pine (2 long needles in fascicle and star bud)

13. Cupressaceae - Platycladus orientalis
Common Fig
English Yew (v-shaped)
Single Leaf Pinyon Pine (1 round needle)
Oriental aborvitae (large and horned cone)

14. Rhamnaceae - frangula alnus subsp. baetica
Pear
Mugo Pine (cup shaped - shrubby - 2 needles in fascicle)
Sandbar Willow
Alder Buckthorn

15. Schrophulariaceae - buddleja davidii
Bumald Spiraea
Narrowleaf Poplar
Butterfly Bush
Japanese Honeysuckle

16. Asteraceae - artemisia ludoviciana
Burkwood's Viburnum
Ninebark
Japanese Honeysuckle
White Sage

17. Salicaceae - populus angustifolia
English Walnut
European White Birch
Pottawatomi Plum
Narrowleaf Poplar

18. Salicaceae - salix integra
Dappled Willow
False Spireae
Gold Dust Plant
River Birch

19. Rosaceae - prunus domestica
Mormon Tea / Green Ephedra
Plum
Trumpet Creeper
Bridal Wreath

20. Adoxaceae - sambucus coerulea
Oriental aborvitae (large and horned cone)
Dappled Willow
Elderberry
Climbing Euonymus

21. Fabaceae - cercis canadensis
Northern Red Oak (bristle tipped leaves)
Sugar Maple
Redbud
Thin-leaf alder

22. Elaeagnaceae - elaeagnus angustifolia
False Spireae
Russian Olive
Giant Sequoia (REALLY spiky)
Chinese Elm

23. Rosaceae - cydonia oblongata
Japanese Honeysuckle
Purple Ninebark
Bearberry Cotoneaster
Quince

24. Rosaceae - cercocarpus montanus
Bradford Pear
Bristlecone Pine (resin ducts and 5 needles in fascicle)
Alder-leaf Mnt. Mahogany
Flowering Quince

25. Caprifoliaceae - weigela florida
Snowball Bush
Weigela
Flowering Plum
Utah Juniper (one seed in the seed cone)

26. Anacardiaceae - rhus aromatica
Arizona Cypress (cones look like horned brussel sprouts)
Red Osier Dogwood
Squawbush
Golden St. Johnswort

27. Malvaceae - hibiscus syriacus
White Fir (rounded blunt tips - smells citrusy)
Cliff Rose
Rose-of-Sharon
Snowball Bush

28. Hamamelidaceae - liquidambar styraciflua
Sweet Gum
Smokebush
White Spruce (Cone w/out notches and smaller needles)
Cultivated Rose

29. Aquifoliaceae - ilex glabra
Bald cypress (feathery leaves)
Inkberry
Crabapple
Green Ash

30. Fagaceae - fagus sylvatica
European Beech
Black Pine (2 long needles in fascicle and star bud)
Bristlecone Pine (resin ducts and 5 needles in fascicle)
Mugo Pine (cup shaped - shrubby - 2 needles in fascicle)

31. Cercidiphyllaceae - cercidiphyllum japonicum
Climbing Nightshade
Katsura Tree
American Linden
English Ivy

32. Betulaceae - alnus incana
Ohio Buckeye
Rocky Mnt. Juniper (smaller cones with multiple seeds)
Lavender
Thin-leaf alder

33. Rosaceae - cotoneaster salicifolia rapandens
Japanese Zelkova
Narrowleaf Poplar
Willowleaf Cotoneaster
False Spireae

34. Betulaceae - betula papyrifera
Four Winged Saltbrush
Paper Birch
Bradford Pear
Northern Red Oak (bristle tipped leaves)

35. Betulaceae - betula pendula
Dawn redwood (yew shaped leaves)
Common Fig
European White Birch
Flowering Dogwood

36. Cupressaceae - Juniperus scopulorum
Joshua Tree
Rocky Mnt. Juniper (smaller cones with multiple seeds)
Paperbark Maple
Corkscrew Willow

37. Pinaceae - Cedrus deodara
Paper Birch
Deodar Cedar (medium needles that circle round)
Snowball Bush
Pinyon Pine (2 short medium needles in fascicle)

38. Fabaceae - wisteria floribunda
Forsythia
Cherry Laurel
Russian Olive
Japanese Wisteria

39. Sapindaceae - acer glabrum
Japanese Euonymus
Rocky Mnt. Maple
American Beech
Common Hackberry

40. Cupressaceae - Hesperocyparis arizonica
Hedge Maple
Arizona Cypress (cones look like horned brussel sprouts)
Ginkgo
False Spireae

41. Caprifoliaceae - lonicera japonica
Pyracantha
Japanese Honeysuckle
Golden Rain Tree
Shrubby Cinquefolia

42. Juglandaceae - juglans nigra
Arctic Willow
Tree of Heaven
American Pussy Willow
Black Walnut

43. Rosaceae - physocarpus opulafolius
Limber Pine (Flexible and 5 short needles in fascicle)
White Sage
Giant Sequoia (REALLY spiky)
Purple Ninebark

44. Buxaceae - Buxus sempervirens
Tree of Heaven
Incense Cedar (seed cone with three splayed parts)
Boxwood
Climbing Euonymus

45. Oleaceae - forsythia suspensa
Tamarisk (Salt Cedar)
Forsythia
Mormon Tea / Green Ephedra
Alder Buckthorn

46. Rosaceae - spiraea x vanhouttei
Bridal Wreath
Thin-leaf alder
American Beech
Concord Grape

47. Berberidaceae - berberis fremontii
Leather-leaf Mnt. Mahogany
Plum
Fremont Mahonia
Dawn redwood (yew shaped leaves)

48. Anacardiaceae - Rhus typhina
Narrowleaf Poplar
Staghorn Sumac (Fuzzy everything!)
American Sycamore (huge leaves - maple shaped)
Big Sagebrush

49. Tamaricaceae - tamarix chinensis
Lavender
Tamarisk (Salt Cedar)
Purple Ninebark
Rubber Rabbitbrush

50. Rosaceae - prunus avium
Atlas Cedar (Needles star clusters and birch cone)
Limber Pine (Flexible and 5 short needles in fascicle)
Arizona Cypress (cones look like horned brussel sprouts)
Sweet Cherry