HARDWOOD
WINTER ID KEY
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You selected:  An alternately-branched
tree with clustered terminal buds
and very stiff twigs and branches.

  5.  Bark is smooth and gray younger trees,
but cracked with flattened ridges on older trees.
The trunk is usually well-formed and straight.
If so, try northern red oak.

          or

  5.  Bark similar to red oak but without flattened
ridges on older trees.  Inner bark is yellowish.
Usually a scrubby-looking tree,
sometimes with many stems.
Often grows on a sandy site.
If so, try northern pin oak.

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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.
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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.