1. Tree Identification Reviewing Some of the Common Trees Found on the SMEL Shawnee Mission South H.S. Environmental Science I – Mr. Wright

2. Compound Leaves Leaf divided up into leaflets Often mistaken for being multiple leaves

3. Black Walnut Look at all the pairs of leaflets (lots of them). Large (1½ - 3”) leaflets. Leaflets pointed.

4. Black Walnut

5. Honey Locust Very small leaflets and lost of them. Leaflets rounded on ends.

6. Honey Locust

7. Ash Leaflets usually 5-7. Leaflets pointed on end, but larger than walnut.

8. Ash

9. Shagbark Hickory Leaflets usually 5-7. Much larger than other compound leaves.

10. Shagbark Hickory

11. Simple Leaves Leaf is not divided up into leaflets. Leaf may come in different shapes.

12. Redbud Heart shaped leaf. 3-4 inches across. Smooth edge to leaf. Pointed tip.

13. Cotton wood Almost heart shape. Almost flat where petiole is attached. Smaller than redbud. State tree.

14. Cotton wood

15. Mulberry Leaf often has 1-3 lobes on the side, like thumbs on a mitten. Leaves 3-5 inches long. “Mitten for mulberry.”

16. Mulberry

17. Red Oak Larger, lobed leaves Lobes are pointed with bristles on tips for red oaks

18. Red Oak

19. Shingle Oak Leaf doesn't look like an oak leaf, but has acorns. Oval shaped Larger leaves, several inches long. Often dark and shiny.

20. Shingle Oak

21. Elm Smaller leaves with saw toothed edge Rough to the touch Unsymmetrical base

22. Elm

23. Osage Orange Green glossy leaves up to 8 inches long Smooth edges with a tapered leaf tip Fruit is a large, dense, green wrinkled ball up to 6" in diameter

24. Osage Orange

25. Dogwood Leaves bigger than an elm but smaller than redbuds. Smooth on edges. Veins curve to run parallel to edge, curving up towards tip.

26. Dogwood

27. Sycamore Leaves can be very large. Looks a lot like a maple leaf. Palmate (like a hand).

28. Sycamore

29. Willow Long skinny leaves that hang from drooping branches Always near a water source. Several on east side of pond.

30. Willow

31. Other Types of Leaves

32. Eastern Red Cedar Either small and scaly or needlelike. Light green to blue green in color. Stinks.

33. Eastern Red Cedar

34. Bald Cypress A series of small, fine, delicate needles running down a stem. Light green in color. Deciduous, fall off in the winter.

35. Bald Cypress