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

HARDWOOD
SUMMER ID KEY
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You selected:  Simple leaves
with coarse teeth and uneven leaf bases.
Note:  There are 3 choices on this page!

  9.  Leaves 4 to 6 inches long.   Bark layers light & dark.
        If so, try American elm.

          or

  9.  Leaves 4 to 6 inches long, very scratchy.
        Bark layers all brownish-red.  Inner bark quite slimy.
        If so, try slippery elm.

          or

  9.  Leaves 2 to 3 inches long.
        Bark layers also light & dark.
        Twigs often with corky growths.
        If so, try rock elm.

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