HARDWOOD
SUMMER ID KEY
 mapleleaves.jpg (4406 bytes)

You selected:  Simple, NOT palmate leaves
from a shrub with opposite-branching.

  5.  Leaves have finely-toothed margins.  wpe15.jpg (1050 bytes)
        Bark is plain gray and smooth.
        If so, try buckthorn.

          or

  5.  Leaves have smooth margins.  wpe15.jpg (1050 bytes)
        Bark is reddish or purplish.
        If so, try dogwood.

If you're not sure what the words mean,
click on the wpe15.jpg (1050 bytes) icon to see a picture.

CAREFULLY read each option
on the right.  Pick the one
that is closest to your sample
or describes what you
remember from where you
saw the tree.  Click on the
"key" icon wpeF.jpg (1022 bytes) to go to the
next set of choices.

To see the entire summer hardwood key on one page, click HERE.
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This site created and maintained by Bill Cook, MSU Extension Forester for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.   Editing and modification is ongoing.  Submit suggestions, questions, and corrections to cookwi@msu.edu or call 906-786-1575. 

wpe5.jpg (2127 bytes)U.P. TREE  IDENTIFICATION  KEY
from Michigan State University Extension