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Pecan (Carya illinoinensis)

Observer

mh3p

Date

October 12, 2014

Description

This is a larger tree which the leaves are alternate, and pinnate with 9–17 leaflets. The fruit type is a nut, the husk is oblong.

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Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina)

Observer

mh3p

Date

October 20, 2014

Description

The leaves were deciduous, pinnately compound, alternate, and the top surfaces of the leaves were dark green. The twigs of this tree was milky and densely velvety hairy. The fruit is a clusters of drupes, dark red and looks woolly. The cluster of drupes are not hanging they are sitting upright.

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American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)

Observer

mh3p

Date

October 20, 2014

Description

The leaves were deciduous, simple and alternate, the leaves were about 5 inches long and they were coarsely toothed. The leaves were also palmately veined and the top of the leaves were a medium green. The back was reddish brown but the top of the tree was beginning to turn into white bark. The fruit was an achene that was about 1 inch thick.

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Post Oak (Quercus stellata)

Observer

mh3p

Date

October 12, 2014

Description

The leaves have a very distinctive shape, with three perpendicular terminal lobes. They are leathery, and very short-hairy beneath.The fruit type is an acorn.

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Red Oaks (Section Lobatae)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 25, 2014

Description

The bark was thick and it almost looked black it was so dark. The bark was also slightly blocky. The leaves were simple, alternate, with seven lobes. The fruit is an acorn that the cup was enclosing about one third of the nut.

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Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 28, 2014

Description

The leaves are palmately compound, composed of five leaflets joined from a central point on the plant. The leaflets have a toothed margin. The fruit are small hard purplish-black berries.

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American Holly (Ilex opaca)

Observer

mh3p

Date

October 12, 2014

Description

The leaves were evergreen, simple and alternate. The margins were wavy and toothed giving a good indication that this was an american holly. The bark was gray and thin, predominantly smooth with a few rough patches. The fruit is a drupe and a few were shiny red but some were still a light green because they had not turned yet.

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Chinkapin Oak (Quercus muehlenbergii)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 28, 2014

Description

The bark is a light gray color. The leaves have sharp teeth but no bristles. The fruit was an acorn and the nut was about half way enclosed by the cup.

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Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 27, 2014

Description

The leaves are pinnate, with five leaflets, the terminal three leaflets much larger than the lower pair. The bark is shaggy (how it got it's name) The fruit is nut with a hard, bony shell, contained in a thick, four-sectioned husk.

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Willow Oak (Quercus phellos)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 28, 2014

Description

Willow shaped leaves, broad with an entire margin; they are bright green above, a lighter color beneath, usually hairless but sometimes downy beneath. The fruit is an acorn and almost as wide as long, with a shallow cut.

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Southern Red Oak (Quercus falcata)

Observer

mh3p

Date

October 12, 2014

Description

Medium sized deciduous tree . The leaves had 3 to 5 sharply pointed, often curved, bristle-tipped lobes, the central lobe long and narrow; the small number of long, narrow lobes. The base of the leaf is distinctly rounded into a bell shape and kind of lopsided. They are dark green and shiny above, and rusty and hairy below, mainly along the midrib and veins. The fruit is an acorn which is enclosed for one-third to half of its length in a flat cup. The bark is dark brownish gray with narrow, shallow ridges.

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Strawberry Bush (Euonymus americanus)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 27, 2014

Description

A small bush, it is evergreen, the fruit is a bright red, they are heart shaped and then after they burst the seeds hang from the fruit that was once shaped like a heart.

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Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 27, 2014

Description

The first thing I noticed was the thorny trunk. The leaves were deciduous, the bark was gray but almost black. The fruit was a legume that was dark brown and about 15 inches in length

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Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 26, 2014

Description

Leaves evergreen, the bark was a reddish brown, thin and fibrous. I located the fruit which was fleshy berry-like that was a light blue color

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Shining Sumac (Rhus copallinum)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 26, 2014

Description

Leaves deciduous, pinnately compound, alternate. Winged leaf rachis and shiny dark green leaflets. Fruit is a drupe which was reddish brown

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Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 25, 2014

Description

Needles were evergreen, there were five needles per fascicle. Numerous tiers of whorled and slightly ascending lateral branches. It had a cone around 6 inches long with the ends rounded.

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American Sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 25, 2014

Description

Leaves deciduous, simple, alternate, blades palmately lobed. The terminal bud is glossy and pointed. The bark was gray and furrowed. Fruit is a spiny ball of many capsules

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White Oak (Quercus alba)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 24, 2014

Description

Leaves deciduous, simple, alternate, the leaf was widest in the middle, bases were wedge shaped. The bark was a light gray, broad and had scaly plates. Fruit is an acorn oblong, light brown, shining, three-quarters to an inch long; cup-shaped, enclose about one-fourth of the nut

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Carolina Snailseed (Cocculus carolinus)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 10, 2014

Description

Climbing vine, heart shaped leaves, bright red fruit

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Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 10, 2014

Description

The bark on the tree was a good indication with the blocky bark some would say it looks like alligator skin. Simple, opposite leaves, blades ovate, the bases were rounded. The fruit is a drupe and at the date of collection it was bright shiny red. Most of the drupes were in clusters of at least three.

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Carolina Buckthorn (Frangula caroliniana)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 9, 2014

Description

Shiny dark leaves, fruit is a small drupe, black with juicy flesh

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Eastern Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 9, 2014

Description

This specimen was in the form of a vine growing on the side of a tree. The leaflets were in groups of three and it had drupes that were in clusters along the vine.

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Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 9, 2014

Description

The tree was about 25 feet tall and the bark was a reddish brown color. Simple, alternate leaves, the blades were broadly ovate, bases heart shaped also thin and papery. Fruit is a legume, flat, oblong, around 3 to 4 inches, dark brown

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Common Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 1, 2014

Description

Leaves simple, alternate, bases were rounded, the bark was light gray with thick plates

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Sugar Hackberry (Celtis laevigata)

Observer

mh3p

Date

September 1, 2014

Description

Leaves simple, alternate, sparsely serrate, bark gray smooth with irregular small prominent corky out growths. The twigs were brown and the lenticels were pale. The terminal bud was absent from the specimen I collected. Fruit is a drupe orange to brownish red.

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