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.
pinnately compound
palmately compound
three leaflets per leaf

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

 

My leaf is palmately compound - it has a stalk with leaflets that radiate from a central point

 

Possible matches:
Acer glabrum - Rocky Mountain maple
Acer griseum - paperbark maple
Acer negundo - boxelder
Aesculus californica - California buckeye
Aesculus flava - yellow buckeye
Aesculus glabra - Ohio buckeye
Aesculus hippocastanum - horsechestnut
Aesculus parviflora - bottlebrush buckeye
Aesculus pavia - red buckeye
Aesculus sylvatica - painted buckeye
Bignonia capreolata - crossvine
Buckleya distichophylla - piratebush
Callistemon spp. - bottlebrush tree
Campsis radicans - trumpet creeper
Clematis drummondii - virgin's bower
Clematis ligusticifolia - white clematis
Clematis terniflora - sweetautumn clematis
Euonymus alatus - winged euonymus
Euonymus americanus - strawberry bush
Fraxinus americana - white ash
Fraxinus angustifolia - narrowleaf ash
Fraxinus anomala - singleleaf ash
Fraxinus caroliniana - Carolina ash
Fraxinus dipetala - two-petal ash
Fraxinus excelsior - European ash
Fraxinus gooddingii - Gooding ash
Fraxinus latifolia - Oregon ash
Fraxinus nigra - black ash
Fraxinus pennsylvanica - green ash
Fraxinus profunda - pumpkin ash
Fraxinus quadrangulata - blue ash
Fraxinus velutina - Arizona ash
Guaiacum angustifolium - soapbush
Guaiacum coulteri - guayacan
Jasminum nudiflorum - winter jasmine
Larrea tridentata - creosote bush
Lyonothamnus floribundus - lyon tree
Phellodendron amurense - Amur corktree
Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis - American elderberry
Sambucus nigra ssp. cerulea - blue elderberry
Sambucus racemosa - red elderberry
Staphylea trifolia - bladdernut
Tabebuia aurea - Caribbean trumpet-tree
Tetradium daniellii - Korean evodia
Vitex agnus-castus - lilac chastetree
Vitex negundo - chastetree
Vitex rotundifolia - beach vitex
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis - pricklyash

 

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