Tree Identification Key

If there is a word or term that you aren't familiar with, visit the Glossary of Terms
organized by Bill Cook from the Upper Peninsula Tree Improvement Center. It will probably be there!

** Click on the buttons to view an illustration of each tree feature **

I. Trees with needle-like or scale-like leaves; fruit a cone, or cone-like (conifers).

     1. Branchlets flattened in fan-like sprays, fruit reddish brown - Northern White Cedar (Thuja occidentalis)

    2. Branchlets 4 angled, not in fan-like sprays, fruit berry-like and dark blue - Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana)

II. Trees with broad, flat leaves of many shapes and patterns (broadleaf trees).

... to introductory Dichotomous Key page