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Shade Tress – Part 1

Nursery Landscape Plant ID

Shade Trees

• Bald Cypress• Ginkgo• Honey Locust• Japanese Maple • Little Leaf Linden• Northern Red Oak• Norway Maple

• Pin Oak• Red Maple• River Birch• Sugar Maple• Sweet Gum• Tulip Tree• White Ash

Tree Stem Leaf Arrangement Type of Leaf

Bald Cypress Alternate, with blades generally

spreading around the twig

linear, and flat

Ginkgo Alternate 2-4 inches

Honey Locust Smooth reddish-brown zigzag stem

Alternate Pinnately or bipinnately compound 6-8” long

with alternate leaflets

Japanese Maple Opposite 2 to 5" simple leaf with 5 to 9 lobes;

Little Leaf Linden Slender brown stems Alternate Simple 1 ½ - 2” long

Northern Red Oak Quite stout, red-brown and glabrous;

terminal buds multiple; covered with red-brown,

mostly hairless scales

Alternate simple, 5 to 8 inches long, oblong in shape with 7 to 11 bristle-

tipped lobes

Norway Maple Opposite Simple 4”-7” wide with 5 lobes

Bald Cypress Alternate, with blades generally

spreading around the twig

linear, and flat

Bald Cypress Alternate, with blades generally

spreading around the twig

linear, and flat

Bald Cypress

Ginkgo Alternate 2-4 inches

Ginkgo Alternate 2-4 inches

Ginkgo

Honey Locust Smooth reddish-brown zigzag stem

Alternate Pinnately or bipinnately compound 6-8” long

with alternate leaflets

Honey Locust Smooth reddish-brown zigzag stem

Alternate Pinnately or bipinnately compound 6-8” long

with alternate leaflets

Honey Locust Smooth reddish-brown zigzag stem

Alternate Pinnately or bipinnately compound 6-8” long

with alternate leaflets

Honey Locust

Japanese Maple Opposite 2 to 5" simple leaf with 5 to 9 lobes;

Japanese Maple Opposite 2 to 5" simple leaf with 5 to 9 lobes;

Japanese Maple Opposite 2 to 5" simple leaf with 5 to 9 lobes;

Japanese Maple

Little Leaf Linden Slender brown stems Alternate Simple 1 ½ - 2” long

Little Leaf Linden Slender brown stems Alternate Simple 1 ½ - 2” long

Little Leaf Linden Slender brown stems Alternate Simple 1 ½ - 2” long

Little Leaf Linden

Northern Red Oak Quite stout, red-brown and glabrous;

terminal buds multiple; covered with red-brown, mostly hairless

scales

Alternate simple, 5 to 8 inches long, oblong in shape with 7 to 11 bristle-

tipped lobes

Northern Red Oak

Norway Maple Opposite Simple 4”-7” wide with 5 lobes

Norway Maple Opposite Simple 4”-7” wide with 5 lobes

Norway Maple Opposite Simple 4”-7” wide with 5 lobes

Norway Maple Opposite Simple 4”-7” wide with 5 lobes

Norway Maple