Wildman Woods 2/16/2004

Each row is a species. Click on the species name in the table below or simply scroll down. Hovering your cursor over the first picture in each row will give you the species name and family. Clicking on each picture will give you an expanded version.

Acer negundo	Carpinus caroliniana	Carya cordiformis	Cercis canadensis	Cornus florida	Euonymus alatus
Ligustrum vulgare	Lindera benzoin	Lonicera maackii	Maclura pomifera	Parthenocissus quinquefolia	Rhus radicans
Rosa multiflora	Tilia americana	Ulmus americana	Vitis sp.

young sapling

another sapling

typical mid-sized tree

mid-sized tree with very corky bark

top: bark with alternating red and cream layers
bottom: twig with bud


young clone	medium-aged clone	old clone with mother trunk gone	mature trunk	twig with buds


mid-sized tree	another one	tightly woven silver rivulets		a mature trunk	twig/bud


young seedling	mid-sized tree with green twigs	another one	bright green twigs, opposite branching	leaves compound, 3-5 foliate; toothing looks very similar to Rhus radicans except in this species the leaves are opposite


mature tree	same	same	hey, this one's easy!


mature trunk	alligator bark	trunk with twigs	fine, opposite twigs, purple to green


a young individual	older with obvious corky wings	typical stem


large vine around small tree	a mature vine	shaggy bark on mature stems	thigmotropic tendrils


multiple-trunked stem	striped bark on mature stems; opposite, fine twigs	very early leafout relative to native shrub species (4/11/04); it also retains its leaves longer in the fall


often in dense clones, single-stemed ramets	thorns; fruit	this invasive exotic leafs out early (4/11/04)

sometimes with multiple trunks

open, highly branched growth form

out of Fangorn Forest!

twigs with thorns

young vine; note side branch

details of tendrils:
top: "kinky hairy"
bottom: tendrils of this species on left, Parthenocissus tendrils on right

this is Hell on Earth

large stems with smooth gray bark

twigs hairy and flesh-toned


it's the shrub in front! typically a single stemmed treelet, and often forms clones	opposite, thin, short branches	a closer view	an invasive exotic, this species leafs out quite early relative to native shrubs (4/11/04)


mid-sized tree, gray bark is loose	reddish bark between gray shags	legume fruit persists in winter on mature individuals	4/25: flowers


a scratch-and-sniff shrub	bark olive, shiny, with big lenticels	flower buds; leaf scars alternate	flowers open in early April (4/11/04)


young vines	very young branched tendrils with discs at tips	an older vine with orange-brown adventitious roots as tendrils	a mature vine on Juglans nigra