AP Environmental Science

Trees You Must Know

Gymnosperms Angiosperms
Compound leaves
with opposite growth
Angiosperms
Compound leaves
with alternate growth
Angiosperms
Simple leaves
with opposite growth
Angiosperms
Simple leaves
with alternate growth
Angiosperms
Simple leaves
"obliquely opposite"

 

Gymnosperms

American Larch/tamarack
White Pine
Red Pine
Austrian Pine
Jack Pine
Scotch Pine
Spruces

 
Balsam Fir
Eastern Hemlock
Bald Cypress
Red Cedar
Arbor vitae
Gingko
 


Angiosperms - Compound leaves with opposite growth

Horse Chestnut
Ohio Buckeye
Box Elder / ash leafed maple
Ash


Angiosperms - compound leaves with alternate growth

 
Black Locust
Honey Locust
Mimosa silk tree
Tree of Heaven
Staghorn Sumac
American mountain ash
Black Walnut
 


Angiosperms - simple leaves with opposite growth

 
Flowering Dogwood
Silver Maple
Red Maple
Sugar Maple
Norway Maple
Hardy Catalpa


Angiosperms - simple leaves with alternate growth

 
Redbud
Sassafras
Pawpaw
Magnolia
Holly
American Beech
Lombardy Poplar
Eastern Cottonwood
Trembling Aspen
Big toothed aspen
White poplar
Linden / American Basswood
Hackberry
White mulberry
Willow
American Plum
Cherry
American Elm
Slippery Elm
Siberian Elm
Gray Birch
American White Birch / Paper-white birch
White Oak Group
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Red Oak Group
Sweet Gum
Sycamore
Tulip Tree
Hawthorne

Common apple
Common pear


Angiosperms - simple leaves "obliquely opposite"

 
Common Buckthorn