Trees and Shrubs of Wabu Woods SNA

• Shape: Understory tree
• Leaf/Branch Arrangement: Alternate
• Flower: White elongated cluster
• Leaves: oval, abruptly pointed tip, 2 ½-4 inches long, 1-2 1/3 inches wide, finely serrated
• Bark: brown/grey, smooth with pale lenticels
• Fruit/Seed: red/purple – black berry, 1/3 inch diameter
• Height: 10-25 feet
• Flowering: May - June
• Habitat: open woods, forest edges and openings, fencerows, riverbanks, roadsides less ↑

• Shape: Bramble
• Leaf/Branch arrangement: Alternate
• Flower: White simple shaped, 5-6 petals
• Leaves: Alternately arranged, compound with three leaflets, leaflets 1¼ to 3 inches long, ¾ to 2 inches wide, lance-elliptic, center leaflet short-stalked and mostly diamond-shaped, lateral leaflets stalkless, tapering to a pointed tip, the base wedge shaped to round, the compound leaf stalk hairy and ¾ to 3 inches long, lower surface hairy
• Bark: smooth to moderately hairy, lack prickles and thorns
• Fruit/Seed: round clustered berry, ¼ to ½ inch in diameter, turning red to dark red when mature
• Height: 4-6 inches
• Flowering: May - June
• Habitat: stream banks, forest or shrub swamps, upland forest, open moist meadows less ↑