1. ???

3. 40 leaves – names , location and
Brief sentence of uses / importance
And a title page.
Major project – grade will count
Six times

4. On the page of the leaf you must
Have common name , scientific
Name and location.NO
HANDWRITING!
Uses can be on that page or separate
Document.

5. Taking your project over the top –
Attach fruit , seed , nut samples
Nice colors in leaves and colored
Paper , pictures on pages of actual
Trees , bark samples etc.

6. Think about this …. Why do leaves
Change colors?

7. For each leaf – Common name
Scientific name, where found and
A sentence about its uses or
Importances.

8. Leaves needle like = pines,spruces
Firs, hemlocks
Broad leaves(decidious)

10. Leaves simple – 1 leaf per leaf
stem

11. Leaves compound – more than
Leaf per leaf stem

12.                                     
SIMPLE
Compound

14. Opposite and compound will
Be white ash 99% of the time in
This area.

15. Alternate and compound – staghorn
Sumac is the most common.

16. Black Walnut

17. Other common compound leafs
In our area are the Hickories
And black walnut.
Shag bark
Hickory

18. Leaves opposite = MADHORSE
Maple,ash,dogwood,horse chest-
Nut.

20. Maples

21. That purplish – red maple is
CRIMSON maple not red maple

22. Leaves alternate

23. Alternate – simple leaves

25. Lobed=indents. A simple, lobed
Leaf in this area is most likley in the OAK family

26. Red oak – alternate , simple – deep
Lobes with pointed ends – look
For acorns

27. Other common oaks are
Pin oak – very deep lobe
Cuts.

28. White Oak – smooth, rounded
Lobes – acorns are highly
Prized by wildlife

29. Alternate , simple toothed leaves
Beech is very common – very silver
Smooth bark

30. White oak – alternate, simple ,
Deep lobes and rounded ends.

32. Leaf margin – outside edge
Smooth (entire) Toothed
Serrated

33. Alternate , simple toothed leaves
Beech is very common – very silver
Smooth bark

34. Alternate , simple – fine teeth around
Outside most likely in the cherry
Family – black cherry = big $$$$
Bark looks like burnt corn flakes.

35. sassafrass

36. Sassafrass – 3 shapes of leaves.
Used to flavor rootbeer and
Sasparillo – herbal tea – crush a
Leaf or break a twig and smell

37. Catalpa – HUUUUGEA – heart
Shaped leaves – poisonous bean

38. Cucumber – very large elephant
Ear shaped leaf – cool fruit ( seed
Pod)

39. Chestnut Oak

40. American Chestnut – very rare Most killed off by Chestnut blight

42. Yellow Birch

43. PAPER BIRCH – Named for its papery
White , thin bark.

44. Ginkgo biloba – an import from
Asia – its leaves and seeds are
Said to have great medicinal
Value – improve memory.

45. Pussy Willow – famous for its
Soft , fuzzy springtime buds.
Dingus Day anyone???????

46. Needle like – needles in clusters =
Pines, 2 needle=red pine(3-5 inches
1-2 in. = scotch pine-orangish bark
5 needles = white pine.
Single needles = spruces, firs or
Hemlock (NOT PINES)

47. 2 needles in a cluster – long 3-5in
= red pine – short 2 needles with
orangish in
bark is scotch
pine

48. White pine – 5 needle clusters

49. Larch = Tamarack – a conifer that
Loses it needles .

50. Other common conifers with Single needle like leaves
Hemlock
Blue Spruce
Norway spruce
Balsam fir

51. Hemlock
Blue spruce

52. Norway spruce – long, curving
Sweeping upward braches.

53. Black Gum Downy serviceberry Hackberry Hop hornbeam
Sweet ( Black) birch
Pin cherry
American Hornbeam ( ironwood
Black Gum

54. Pig nut Hickory Bitternut Hickory Shag bark Hickory Black Oak
Scarlet Oak
Butternut

55. For each leaf – common name,
Scientific name and where found
Closest road must be on the
Leaf page – uses can be on the
Page or separate document
NO HANDWRITING – 40 leaves
Title page