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

HARDWOOD
WINTER ID KEY
 barecrown2.jpg (15234 bytes)

You selected:  An alternately-branched
tree with thorns.

  4.  Thorns under 1/4 inch and
        located where twigs join branches.
        If so, try black locust.

          or

  4.  Thorns are long.  Twigs have
        a zig-zap pattern.  Seen in towns.
        If so, try honey-locust. 

 

If you're not sure what the words mean,
click on the wpe15.jpg (1050 bytes) icon to see a picture.

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.

To see the entire hardwood winter key on one page, click HERE.
Click HERE to return to the home page.

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.