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Callery Pear (Pyrus calleryana)Observer
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Approximately 35 ft in height with dark bark broken into large plates. Leaves are deciduous, simple, alternate, broadly ovate, with a leathery texture and discrete toothed margins. Fruits are small, brown, hard, and widely dispersed on the tree.
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Black Oak (Quercus velutina)Observer
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Approximately 30 feet tall with irregular fissures and ridges on the bark, mostly black with a hint of orange on the inside of the fissures. Leaves have 6-8 large lobes with bristle tips and little pubescence around the veins.
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Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor)Observer
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Approximately 40 feet in height with light brown, rigid bark. Leaves have rounded teeth with a large expansion of width near the middle of the leaf. The underside is white with pubescence.
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Red Mulberry (Morus rubra)Observer
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Approximately 20 feet tall with a short, divided trunk and light brown plates of bark. Leaves are deciduous, simple, alternate, and ovate with serrated margins. Upper side is rough like sandpaper and lower side has pubescence on the veins. Leaves have 1 to 3 lobes.
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Mockernut (Carya tomentosa)Observer
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Approximately 70 feet in height with many stout branches. Leaves are deciduous, alternate, and pinnately compound. Average of 7 leaflets with pubescent lower surface and petioles. Foliage was aromatic. Long oval shaped buds with overlapping scales and heavy pubescence. Shallow furrows in the bark creating a diamond pattern.
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Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus)Observer
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Approximately 80 feet tall with whorled branches and narrow, rectangular blocks in the fissured bark. Needles are evergreen, 4-5 inches long with 5 per fascicle. Needles are bluish, green color with a distinct white strip on each one. Cones are long and cylindrical with rounded ends and no prickles.
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Willow Oak (Quercus phellos)Observer
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Approximately 15 feet tall with a straight trunk and grayish-brown bark with faint fissures. Leaves are simple, alternate, deciduous, and narrowly elliptical with a bristle tip. 4-5 inches in length and about 1 inch in width.
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American Beech (Fagus grandifolia)Observer
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Approximately 20 feet in height with limbs spraying over the trail with blueish gray bark with lots of initials carved into it. Leaves are alternate, simple, and deciduous with serrated margins. Upper surfaces are dark green with a paler lower surface. Buds are approximately an inch long and resemble cigars.
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Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense)Observer
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Shrubby, approximately 6 feet tall and 3 feet wide with light green, simple, deciduous leaves; most leaves have an opposite orientation but some are alternate. Light brown, greenish bark with dark blue drupes.
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Shining Sumac (Rhus copallinum)Observer
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A shrub-like plant reaching approximately 6 feet in height and 3 feet in width with varying branching points from the main stalk. Leaves are pinnately compound with winged stems between the leaflets. Fruits are red clusters of drupes.
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Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)Observer
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Approximately 15 feet tall with spraying limbs and scaly brown bark. 2 ranked evergreen needles with rounded tips. Green upper side with 2 white bands on the lower side. Cones are nearly round with overlapping light brown scales.
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Post Oak (Quercus stellata)Observer
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Approximately 30 ft. tall with gnarled branches. Irregular fissures on the bark with thick plates. Leaves are simple, deciduous, and alternate with 3 to 5 lobes. Middle lobes are the larges and create a cross shape. Upper surfaces are dark green and lower are a lighter green with dense pubescence.
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Blackjack Oak (Quercus marilandica)Observer
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Approximately 20 feet tall with black deeply fissured bark in a square shape. Leaves are simple, alternate, deciduous, and leathery with 3 lobes and a narrow, triangular base. Twigs are slightly pubescent with angular buds.
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Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis)Observer
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Approximately 10 feet in height with spreading branches. Leaves are deciduous, simple, and alternate; broadly ovate heart-shaped, palmately veined. Upper surfaces are glabrous, lower pubescent. Thin scaly plates on bark.
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Fragrant Sumac (Rhus aromatica)Observer
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Short shrub approximately 4 ft tall. Trifoliate leaves that are alternate and compound. Lobing and margins vary on leaflets. Stalks branch out several feet from the main trunk.
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Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)Observer
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Appx. 25ft in height with a low three way split in the trunk, each trunk appx. 1ft in diameter. Needles scale-like, ~1cm in length, dark green attached to brown, scale-like twigs. Seed cones present that are fleshy, berry-like, greenish blue color with an opaque, easily wiped off white covering, and ~1/2cm in diameter. Tree is aromatic with thin, stringy bark.
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Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum)Observer
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Approximately 10 ft. tall with low branches. Simple, opposite, deciduous leaves that are glabrous, palmately 5-lobed, occasionally 3-lobed. Scaly buds and fissured bark.
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Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)Observer
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Young tree, only about 7 feet tall and 2-3 inches in diameter. Simple, alternate leaf orientation with individual leaves having various lobing patterns. Most leaves exhibit 1 or 2 lobes. Leaves and twigs are aromatic. Leaf surfaces pubescent; twigs glaucous.