Observations by clw7k

It was a twining vine with black/purple berries and 2-3 lobed leaves. Also, had tendrils that wrapped around the branch it was intertwined around. Tendrils noted.

Found in Rutherford County of Murfreesboro, TN.

EDIT: Changed from Menispermum canadense.

Family: Caprifoliaceae
Genus: Lonicera

Invasive vine that was climbing on a maple tree. This particular one only had the fruits not the usual flowers that it is known for. It appeared to be a younger stem because of its reddish, fuzzy feeling to it. The berries appeared to be early in development because they were a green color instead of the normal black. A species that is native and often confused for it is the Lonicera sempervirens.
NOTE: This is an invasive and was introduced to the U.S.

Rutherford County in TN.

Family: Fagaceae
Common Name: Chinkapin Oak

This was a smaller tree of about 10 ft and had alternating simple toothed leaves of about 4-5ins long and small acorns of about 1/2 in. long. This species can be confused for Quercus montana and Quercus michauxii.

Found in Old Fort Park in Rutherford County of Murfreesboro, TN

This was a vine woven along a branch of a non-cultivated Pyrus calleryana. It had black/purple clustered berries and parallel veined heart-like shaped leaves.

Found in Old Fort Park in Rutherford County of Murfreesboro, TN.

This was not a cultivated or captive specimen. A vine known as Smilax bona-nox was intertwined along a branch. This particular tree was maybe 20 ft or so with 3in sized alternately arranged oval shaped leaves and the fruit appeared to be about an inch or more in size compared to the normal cultivated species.

Found in Old Fort Park in Rutherford County of Murfreesboro, TN.

Family: Anacardiaceae
Common name: Fragrant Sumac

Small, shrubby tree. It had three distinct, pubescent-leaves with a deeply toothed pattern. It is also fragrant with a distinct smell.

Found in Old Fort Park in Rutherford County of Murfreesboro, TN.

A large 50 or more ft tree with simple alternating leaves that have 3-5 toothed lobes and ovate veins. They were about 8-10 inches long and have a slight pubescent touch near stem. Fruit was a multiple of achenes and about the size of a golf ball.

Found in Old Fort Park in Rutherford County of Murfreesboro, TN.

Family Pinaceae

20 ft or so tall tree with evergreen leaves about 4-5 ins long in fascicles of 2. Cones about 3-4 inches long. Bark was a dark brown and scaly plates.

Found in Rutherford County of Murfreesboro, TN.

Family: Fagaceae
Common Name: Black Oak

This was about 20 ft or so tall with alternating, simple, 7-8 deeply lobed leaves about 6 or more inches long. Terminal bud is distinctive for it's woolly, sharp appearance and it is about 1/2 inch long. The acorns are about an inch or more long and they are saucer cupped. Known for being similar to other fellow red oaks: Q. coccinea, Q. rubra, and Q. shumardii.

Found in Rutherford County of Murfreesboro, TN.

Family: Smilacaceae
Common Name: Common greenbriar

It was a vine with tendrils that intertwined around a Cercis Canadensis. The alternating leaves were rounded, glossy, and parallel veined with 10 or so berries clustered together.

Family: Caprifoliaceae
Common Name: Coral berry

It is a woody shrub with small oval-like leaves oppositely arranged. The leaves are about an 1-2inches long and a little under an inch wide. It has various clusters of dark/light red berries. Of this particular one, it was near the edge of what normally is a wet area because of a river running through.

Low ground level tree that looks as if it is spilling into the area that would be full of water. This particular tree has distinctive little green ladder step structures going up and along the branches near the base of where the leaves shot out of. The leaves are elliptical and generally free of serration and range about 4-6ins. long and less than an inch wide.

Family: Celastraceae
Common Name: Strawberry Bush, Bursting-heart

It was a small flowering shrub known for its signature fruit. The fruit, a berry, is usually a brilliant red when fully ripened and will have it's seeds splaying out of it. This is why the common name refers to it as a bursting heart. The oppositely arranged leaves are a light green, elliptical and spread out along stalk. This particular one was no more than 14 ins. tall.

Family: Cupressaceae

It was large tree of about 50 ft. Nearing it, you can smell a distinct fresh fragrant. Leaves are evergreen and look like green rope twisted like thin braids with cones looking like powdery blue 'berries'. The bark is a reddish-brown and long fibrous strips separated slightly from the tree.

Found in Old Fort Park in Rutherford County of Murfreesboro, TN.

Family: Ulmaceae

It was a large tree (50 or more ft) with serrated simple alternating leaves. Most distinguishing characteristic about this tree is the corky ridges that are the 'winged' part on branches. Fruits are samara.

Found in Old Fort Park in Rutherford County of Murfreesboro, TN.

Family: Fagaceae
Common Name: Willow Oak

Large tree about 20-30 feet tall. Leaves are 4ins long and elliptical. They are similar to willow tree leaves, but different fruit. The acorn is less than an inch long and very small. Bark is light brown/gray with very very shallow grooves.

Found in Old Fort Park in Rutherford County of Murfreesboro, TN.

Family: Fabaceae
Common Name: Eastern Red Bud

Medium sized, young tree with simple, alternating heart-shaped leaves and several legumes. The petioles are swollen on both sides where they connect to actual leaf and the branch.

Family: Fagaceae
Common name: Shumard Oak

large tree with thick, gray/brown bark with shallow dark furrows and scaly ridges that are rather thick. The leaves are simple, alternating with 7-8 deepish lobes that are bristle tipped signifying that it is a red oak type. On the back of the leaves are tufts of hair in the axils. The acorns of this species are shallow cupped that enclose less than a third of the nut.Species similar to this are Q. rubra, Q. velutina, Q. texana, and Q. palustris.