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

CONIFER ID KEY
crowns.jpg (17780 bytes)

You selected: Needles in bundles or groups.
Note:  there are 3 choices on this page!

 

  2.  Are the needles in bundles of two?  wpeF.jpg (1022 bytes)

          or

  2.  Are the needles in bundles of five?  
        If bundles of five, see white pine.

          or

  2.  Are there many needles clustered
        at the end of a short spur branch?
        If so, see tamarack.

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 conifer 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, now retired.  He continues to respond to suggestions, questions, and corrections. Contact him at cookwi@msu.edu.