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Cherry Lawn Park:

Norway Maple

Norway maple is a fast-growing medium sized tree, up to 18 - 21 m (60' - 70') in height and up to 60 cm (24") in diameter. Bark is grey and smooth when young. The bark is dark grey with shallow, intersecting ridges in a regular, often diamond-shaped pattern. Leaves are palmately lobed, wider than long, each leaf has 5 to 7 lobes that often have bristle-tipped teeth.

Sycamore

Sycamore trees are one of the oldest species of trees on Earth, and are known for their longevity and hardiness. There are several varieties of sycamore trees, but they all share similar characteristics. Sycamore trees produce large leaves that have a distinctive deep green. These plumes of leaves grow on branches that can reach up to 175 feet tall. As the leaves measure up to 6 inches long, a fully grown sycamore tree can be one of the densest trees in appearance.

American Beech

American Beech are fairly large trees, usually up to 80 feet tall. Trunks can grow up to 2 1/2 feet wide. American Beech grow in forests with other trees, such as oaks, pines, and hickories. They can also grow in a pure stand (group of the same type of tree). American Beech leaves grow up to five inches long. they  are ovate(shaped like an oval) with a pointed tip.

Red Oak

The red oak is one of the largest and most important timber trees. One of the fastest growing of the oaks, it attains a to 80 feet and a diameter of two to three feet. It has a wide, spreading head with few far reaching branches. Found growing over southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States, it reaches west to central Minnesota, eastern Nebraska and Kansas. It is found over most of Iowa on a variety of soils, except on the drier clay uplands. It prefers moist, rich soils on north, east or northeast exposures. The tree has a single, lobed leaf with seven to eleven pointed or bristly-tipped lobes. The lobe sinuses reach one-half way to mid-vein. The leaves are thin, firm, dull green above, yellow-green below, varying considerably.

Yellow Poplar

Yellow Poplar leaves are shaped like a tulip blossom. Some people even call this tree a "tulip-tree." Leaves are usually three to six inches long, with four lobes. They are dark or shiny green above, and pale green underneath. Yellow Poplar bark is dark gray, and it becomes thick and furrowed as it gets older.The trunk of this tree can reach three feet across.This tree is found with other hardwood trees, such as oaks, American Beech, maples, Black Cherry, Eastern White Pine, and hickories. Hummingbirds, Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, Tiger Swallowtails and other insects help pollinate this tree when they visit flowers.

Black Oak

Black Oaks are medium to large trees, growing to around 80 feet. Their trunks are usually no more than two and a half feet wide. Black Oak leaves are four to ten inches long, with seven to nine lobes (like fingers). Lobes have a pointy bristle on the end. Leaves are shiny green above, and pale green below. Sometimes they have brown hairs underneath. Black Oak leaves turn red in the fall. The bark of Black Oak is smooth and gray on young trees, but as it gets older the bark turns black and thick with deep furrows (wrinkles). The inner bark of this tree is orangish-yellow.

Shagbark Hickory

Shagbark Hickory trunks are characterized by long, peeling strips of bark. Some animals, like Indiana bats, make their homes in snug crevices beneath the loose bark. Branches and leaves of shagbarks form pretty, oval-shaped crowns in the spring and summer. Hickories are deciduous trees, so when autumn arrives, their leaves turn pale green to yellowish-brown before falling to the ground. The average height of shagbark hickories is between 60 and 80 feet tall, but they sometimes reach 120 feet in height.

Black Walnut

They grow up to 150 feet with long, straight trunks up to a yard in diameter. Their black or dark gray bark is deeply marked with furrows and ridges. Their compound leaves, smooth on top and fuzzy underneath, can be up to 18" in length. Early colonists carried seeds of English walnuts to the New World, planting them diligently where they settled in Massachusetts and Virginia. The trees didn't even survive long enough to bear fruit so colonists learned to rely on the plentiful Black walnuts for cooking confections. 

Tamarack Larch

Larix laricina is a small to medium-size boreal coniferous and deciduous tree reaching 10–20 metres (33–66 ft) tall, with a trunk up to 60 centimetres (24 in) diameter. Tamaracks and Larches (Larix species) are deciduous conifers. The bark is tight and flaky, pink, but under flaking bark it can appear reddish. The leaves are needle-like, 2–3 cm (0.8–1.2 in) short, light blue-green, turning bright yellow before they fall in the autumn, leaving the pale pinkish-brown shoots bare until the next spring.The word tamarack is the Algonquian name for the species and means "wood used for snowshoes."

White Spruce
Catalpa

Mostly deciduous trees, they typically grow to 12–18 metres (39–59 ft) tall and 6–12 metres (20–39 ft) wide. A 10-year-old sapling will stand about 6 metres (20 ft) tall. They can be recognized by their large, heart-shaped to three-lobed leaves, showy white or yellow flowers in broad panicles, and during the autumn by their 20–50 centimetres (7.9–19.7 in) long fruits, which resemble a slender bean pod, containing numerous small flat seeds, each seed having two thin wings to aid in wind dispersal. Because of the leaves, they are sometimes confused with the tung tree (Vernicia fordii) in the southern U.S., or the invasive Paulownia tomentosa imported from China.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The white spruce is a large coniferous evergreen tree which grows normally to 15 to 30 metres (49 to 98 ft) tall, but can grow up to 40 m (130 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m (3.3 ft). The bark is thin and scaly, flaking off in small circular plates 5 to 10 centimetres (2.0 to 3.9 in) across. The crown is narrow - conic in young trees, becoming cylindric in older trees. This tree has often been heralded as a beautiful tree, whether lining the banks of a North Country river or gracing someone’s front yard. But the white spruce is more than just a pretty face. Commercially it, it is a mainstay of the pulp and paper industry and well-used for construction lumber.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Red Cedar

Juniperus virginiana is a dense slow-growing coniferous evergreen tree that may never become more than a bush on poor soil, but is ordinarily from 5–20 m or 16–66 ft (rarely to 27 m or 89 ft) tall, with a short trunk 30–100 cm or 12–39 in (rarely 170 cm or 67 in) diameter. The oldest tree reported, from Missouri, was 795 years old. The bark is reddish-brown, fibrous, and peels off in narrow strips. The leaves are of two types; sharp, spreading needle-like juvenile leaves 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) long, and tightly adpressed scale-like adult leaves 2–4 mm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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