Other Fact Sheets Leaf Key

So far you have made the following choices...

It could be one of the species in the table below. Let's narrow our choices based on leaflet arrangement.
palmately compound
pinnately compound
trifoliate

My leaf is palmately compound - leaflets radiate from one point

 

My leaf is pinnately compound - it has a central stalk with several leaflets

 

My leaf is trifoliate - it has three leaflets per compound leaf

Possible matches:
Acacia berlandieri - guajillo
Acacia constricta - whitethorn acacia
Acacia farnesiana - sweet acacia
Acacia greggii - catclaw acacia
Ailanthus altissima - tree-of-Heaven
Akebia quinata - fiveleaf akebia
Albizia julibrissin - mimosa
Amorpha fruticosa - desert false indigo
Aralia spinosa - Devil's walking stick
Bursera fagaroides - fragrant bursera
Bursera microphylla - elephant tree
Bursera simaruba - gumbo-limbo
Caesalpinia pulcherrima - pride-of-Barbados
Calliandra californica - Baja fairy duster
Calliandra eriophylla - fairy duster
Callistemon spp. - bottlebrush tree
Caragana arborescens - pea tree
Carya alba - mockernut hickory
Carya aquatica - water hickory
Carya cordiformis - bitternut hickory
Carya glabra - pignut hickory
Carya illinoinensis - pecan
Carya laciniosa - shellbark hickory
Carya ovalis - red hickory
Carya ovata - shagbark hickory
Carya pallida - sand hickory
Chaenomeles speciosa - common floweringquince
Chamaebatia foliolosa - mountain misery
Chamaebatiaria millefolium - fernbush
Citrus spp. - citrus
Cladrastis kentukea - yellowwood
Clematis drummondii - virgin's bower
Cleome isomeris - bladderpod spiderflower
Comptonia peregrina - sweetfern
Cytisus scoparius - Scotch broom
Dasiphora fruticosa - shrubby cinquefoil
Delonix regia - flamboyant tree
Ebenopsis confinis - ejoton
Ebenopsis ebano - Texas ebony
Erythrina corallodendron - coral tree
Eysenhardtia orthocarpa - kidneywood
Eysenhardtia texana - Texas kidneywood
Faidherbia albida - winter thorn
Fallugia paradoxa - Apache plume
Gleditsia aquatica - waterlocust
Gleditsia triacanthos - honeylocust
Gymnocladus dioicus - Kentucky coffeetree
Jacaranda mimosifolia - jacaranda
Juglans californica - California black walnut
Juglans cinerea - butternut
Juglans hindsii - Hind's black walnut
Juglans major - Arizona walnut
Juglans microcarpa - little walnut
Juglans nigra - black walnut
Juglans regia - English walnut
Koelreuteria paniculata - goldenraintree
Laburnum xwatereri - goldenchain tree
Leucaena retusa - littleleaf leadtree
Lupinus arboreus - yellow bush lupine
Lysiloma candidum - palo blanco
Lysiloma watsonii - desertfern
Mahonia aquifolium - tall Oregon-grape
Mahonia fremontii - Fremont barberry
Mahonia haematocarpa - red barberry
Mahonia nervosa - dwarf Oregon-grape
Mahonia nevinii - Nevine's barberry
Mahonia repens - creeping mahonia
Melia azedarach - Chinaberry
Mimosa aculeaticarpa - catclaw mimosa
Nandina domestica - heavenly bamboo
Olneya tesota - desert ironwood
Osteomeles anthyllidifolia - Hawaii hawthorne
Pachycormus discolor - torote blanco
Parkinsonia aculeata - Jerusalem thorn
Parkinsonia florida - blue paloverde
Parkinsonia microphylla - yellow paloverde
Parthenocissus quinquefolia - Virginia creeper
Parthenocissus tricuspidata - Boston ivy
Pistacia chinensis - Chinese pistache
Poncirus trifoliata - trifoliate orange
Prosopis glandulosa - honey mesquite
Prosopis pubescens - screwbean mesquite
Prosopis velutina - velvet mesquite
Psorothamnus fremontii - Fremont's dalea
Ptelea trifoliata - hoptree
Pueraria montana - kudzu
Rhus aromatica - fragrant sumac
Rhus copallinum - shining sumac
Rhus glabra - smooth sumac
Rhus lancea - African sumac
Rhus lanceolata - prairie sumac
Rhus microphylla - littleleaf sumac
Rhus trilobata - skunkbush sumac
Rhus typhina - staghorn sumac
Rhus virens - New Mexico evergreen sumac
Robinia hispida - bristly locust
Robinia neomexicana - New Mexican locust
Robinia pseudoacacia - black locust
Rosa canina - dog rose
Rosa gymnocarpa - little wood rose
Rosa minutifolia - small-leaved rose
Rosa multiflora - multiflora rose
Rosa nutkana - Nootka rose
Rosa pisocarpa - cluster rose
Rosa rugosa - rugosa rose
Rosa woodsii - Woods' rose
Rubus allegheniensis - Alleghany blackberry
Rubus argutus - prickly Florida blackberry
Rubus armeniacus - Himalaya blackberry
Rubus flagellaris - dewberry
Rubus idaeus - raspberry
Rubus laciniatus - evergreen blackberry
Rubus leucodermis - whitebark raspberry
Rubus occidentalis - black raspberry
Rubus phoenicolasius - wine raspberry
Rubus spectabilis - salmonberry
Rubus ursinus - wild blackberry
Sapindus saponaria - soapberry
Schinus molle - peppertree
Schinus terebinthifolius - Brazilian peppertree
Senna hebecarpa - American senna
Sesbania punicea - rattlebox
Sophora secundiflora - mescal bean
Sorbus americana - American mountain-ash
Sorbus aucuparia - European mountain-ash
Sorbus decora - showy mountain-ash
Sorbus scopulina - Greene's mountain-ash
Sorbus sitchensis - Sitka mountain-ash
Styphnolobium affine - Texas sophora
Styphnolobium japonicum - Japanese pagoda tree
Swietenia mahagoni - West Indies mahogany
Toxicodendron diversilobum - Pacific poisonoak
Toxicodendron pubescens - poison-oak
Toxicodendron radicans - poison-ivy
Toxicodendron vernix - poison sumac
Ungnadia speciosa - Mexican buckeye
Wisteria floribunda - Japanese wisteria
Wisteria sinensis - Chinese wisteria
Xanthorhiza simplicissima - yellowroot
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis - pricklyash

 

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