HARDWOOD
WINTER ID KEY
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You selected:  An alternately-branched
tree with single or absent terminal buds,
and with textured, layered bark.
Note:  There are 3 choices on this page!

  6.  Bark layers light & dark (red & white).
        Terminal bud clearly angled to one side.
        Tree form is "vase-like."
        If so, try American elm.

          or

  6.  Bark layers light & dark (red & white).
        Older twigs with corky ridges and growths.
        Buds very sharp-pointed.  Uncommon tree.
        If so, try rock elm.

          or

  6.  Bark layers are the same color.
        Inner bark is quite slimy when chewed.
        Buds are dark, almost black.
        If so, try slippery elm.

CAREFULLY read each option
on the right.  This is the
hardest key to work through.
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.

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

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.