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Leaves Used to identify trees

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This section is being updated in the summer of 2025. My current photo library is lacking photo's of tree leaves.

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Red oak

Pointed lobes, turn red almost purple if fall after hard maple. Thick leaf lasting on the forest floor longer than others.
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White oak

Similar to white oak but with rounded lobes
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Bur oak

Pointed lobes, leaf is wider near the tip compared to the base

Black oak

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Hard maple​​

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Soft maple (red)

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Silver maple

Black maple

Manitoba maple


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American beech

Butternut
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Basswood

Black cherry​


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White ash

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White elm

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Largetooth aspen


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Trembling aspen

Petiole is triangular in shape that gives this leaf a trembling appearance in the slightest of winds

Balsam poplar

Ironwood

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An elliptical leaf with a sawtooth margin. Buds diverge from twig at a 45 degree angle.

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  • Home
  • Services
  • Contact
  • About
  • Leaf Identification
    • Leaf identification
    • Conifer needles
  • Historical items
  • Silviculture
    • Selection
    • Shelterwood
    • Clear Cut
    • Plantations
  • Wildlife
  • Bark identification
  • Red pine Management