1. Plant Identification Trees I
Horticulture I

2. Acer palmatum Common Name: Japanese Maple Small, deciduous tree
Wide, palmate, deeply lobed leaves
Fruit: Samara
Popular landscape plant
Fall: bright color, red, orange,
yellow, or purple

4. Acer rubrum Common Name: Red Maple Large, deciduous tree – 50’ tall
Spring – Red flowers before leaves
Summer – Dark green leaves, gray underneath
Leaves – 3 – 5 lobes
Fall – bright red leaves
Bark – light gray
Fruit – samara

6. Quercus palustris Common Name: Pin Oak large, deciduous tree
Leaves: narrow, sharp, pointed lobes
shiny, dark green
Fall: red, bronze leaves
Fruit: Acorns

8. Quercus phellow Common Name: Willow Oak
Large, deciduous tree – 60’ high, 40’ wide
Narrow green leaves
Small acorns

10. Liquidambar styraciflua
Common Name: Sweetgum
Large, deciduous tree
Leaves – dark green & star shaped
Fall – yellow, orange, red, & purple
Fruit – prickly burrs

12. Betula nigra Common Name: River Birch medium, deciduous tree
Bark – thin, brown, peeling bark
Multiple trunks
Serrated leaves

14. Cercis canadensis Common Name: Eastern Red Bud (Judas Tree)
Small, deciduous tree
Leaves – heart shaped, 3-5” long
Fruit – brown, bean type pods
Spring – pink-purple flowers
Fall – leaves turn dark red

16. Lagerstroemia indica cv.
Common Name: Crape Myrtle
small, deciduous tree
Bark – light, tan, smooth
Flowers – purple, white, pink, red
Flowers all summer & early fall
Mulit-trunked

18. Plant Identification Trees 2
Horticulture I

19. Pinus strobus Common Name: Eastern White Pine Large, evergreen tree
Clusters of needles 4” long
flexible
5 needles per cluster
4-8 “ curving brown cones

21. Pinus taeda Common Name: Loblolly Pine Large, evergreen tree
Needles in clusters of 3
4-9” long needles
Stiff needles & sometimes twisted
dark brown 3-6” cones

23. Magnolia grandiflora Common Name: Southern Magnolia
Large, evergreen tree
Large, shiny leaves 5-10”
Thick & leathery
Elliptical shape
6-9” white flowers
Very messy – cone-like pods
bright red seeds

25. Pyrus calleryana ‘Bradford’
CN: Bradford Pear
Medium, deciduous tree
Spring – white flowers
Fall – reddish, purple leaves
Symmetrical shape
Bad smell
Simple leaves
lush, green in summer

27. Malus sp. or cv. CN: Flowering Crabapple Medium, deciduous tree
Ornamental
Flowers – reddish pink
Fruit: 1-2” crabapple
Green, red, purple leaves in summer
Simple serrated leaves

29. Cornus florida CN: Flowering Dogwood State flower of NC, grows wild
Small, deciduous tree
Crooked
White flowers (or pink)
bracts with brownish tip
Red berries with hard seed

31. Prunus serrulata ‘Kwanzan’
CN: Japanese Flowering Cherry
Small, deciduous tree
Flower: Double, pink
Showy, large clumps
Leaves: 3-5”, shiny
Vase shape w/ spreading crown

33. X Cupressocyparis leylandii
CN: Leyland Cypress
Large, evergreen tree
Short ½” cones
Popular barrier tree
Upright, pyramidal shape
Scale-like leaves (awls)