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 the shape of the leaf scar.
narrow "V" or "U" -
shaped leaf scars
broad
shield-shaped or rounded leaf scars
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Possible matches:
Abelia xgrandiflora - glossy abelia
Acer barbatum - Florida maple
Acer buergerianum - trident maple
Acer campestre - hedge maple
Acer circinatum - vine maple
Acer ginnala - Amur maple
Acer glabrum - Rocky Mountain maple
Acer grandidentatum - bigtooth maple
Acer griseum - paperbark maple
Acer macrophyllum - bigleaf maple
Acer miyabei - Miyabe maple
Acer negundo - boxelder
Acer nigrum - black maple
Acer palmatum - Japanese maple
Acer pensylvanicum - striped maple
Acer platanoides - Norway maple
Acer pseudoplatanus - sycamore maple
Acer rubrum - red maple
Acer saccharinum - silver maple
Acer saccharum - sugar maple
Acer spicatum - mountain maple
Acer tataricum - Tatarian maple
Acer truncatum - Shantung maple
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
Amelanchier canadensis - shadblow serviceberry
Anisacanthus quadrifidus - desert honeysuckle
Araucaria heterophylla - Norfolk pine
Avicennia germinans - black mangrove
Borrichia arborescens - tree seaside tansy
Broussonetia papyrifera - paper mulberry
Bucida buceras - black olive
Buckleya distichophylla - piratebush
Buxus sempervirens - boxwood
Callicarpa americana - American beautyberry
Callistemon spp. - bottlebrush tree
Calycanthus floridus - common sweetshrub
Calycanthus occidentalis - sweet shrub
Cassiope mertensiana - white mountain heather
Catalpa bignonioides - southern catalpa
Catalpa speciosa - northern catalpa
Ceanothus cuneatus - narrowleaf buckbrush
Ceanothus gloriosus - Point Reyes ceanothus
Ceanothus greggii - desert ceanothus
Ceanothus prostratus - mahala mat
Cedrus deodara - Deodar cedar
Cercidiphyllum japonicum - katsuratree
Chilopsis linearis - desert-willow
Chionanthus virginicus - fringetree
Cistus spp. - rockrose
Cornus alba - Tatarian dogwood
Cornus amomum - silky dogwood
Cornus canadensis - bunchberry
Cornus drummondii - roughleaf dogwood
Cornus florida - flowering dogwood
Cornus kousa - kousa dogwood
Cornus mas - Cornelian cherry dogwood
Cornus nuttallii - Pacific dogwood
Cornus racemosa - gray dogwood
Cornus sericea - red-osier dogwood
Cryptomeria japonica - Japanese cryptomeria
Cunninghamia lanceolata - common Chinafir
Deutzia scabra - fuzzy deutzia
Diervilla lonicera - northern bush-honeysuckle
Diplacus puniceus - red bush monkeyflower
Ephedra spp. - Mormon-tea
Ericameria laricifolia - turpentine bush
Eucalyptus cladocalyx - sugar gum
Eucalyptus cordata - silver gum
Eucalyptus globulus - blue gum
Eucalyptus nitens - shining gum
Euonymus alatus - winged euonymus
Euonymus americanus - strawberry bush
Euonymus atropurpureus - eastern wahoo
Euonymus europaeus - spindletree
Euonymus fortunei - wintercreeper
Euonymus kiautschovicus - spreading euonymus
Fendlera rupicola - cliff fendlerbush
Forestiera pubescens - desert-olive
Forsythia spp. - forsythia
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
Fremontodendron californicum - California fremontia
Fremontodendron mexicanum - Mexican femontia
Gambelia juncea - baja bush snapdragon
Garrya elliptica - wavyleaf silktassel
Garrya flavescens - ashy silktassel
Garrya fremontii - bearbrush
Garrya wrightii - Wright silktassel
Guaiacum angustifolium - soapbush
Guaiacum coulteri - guayacan
Heptacodium miconoides - seven sons flower
Hydrangea arborescens - wild hydrangea
Hydrangea macrophylla - bigleaf hydrangea
Hydrangea paniculata - panicle hydrangea
Hydrangea quercifolia - oakleaf hydrangea
Hypericum spp. - Saint Johnswort
Hyptis emoryi - desert lavender
Iva frutescens - marsh-elder
Jamesia americana - fivepetal cliffbush
Jasminum nudiflorum - winter jasmine
Jatropha cuneata - limberbush
Kalmia microphylla - alpine laurel
Kalmia polifolia - bog laurel
Kolkwitzia amabilis - beautybush
Lagerstroemia indica - crapemyrtle
Laguncularia racemosa - white mangrove
Larrea tridentata - creosote bush
Ligustrum amurense - Amur privet
Ligustrum japonicum - Japanese privet
Ligustrum obtusifolium - border privet
Linnaea borealis - twinflower
Lippia spp. - verbena
Lonicera canadensis - American fly honeysuckle
Lonicera conjugialis - purpleflower honeysuckle
Lonicera involucrata - twinberry
Lonicera maackii - Amur honeysuckle
Lonicera morrowii - Morrow honeysuckle
Lonicera tatarica - Tatarian honeysuckle
Lonicera utahensis - red twinberry
Lonicera xbella - Belle's honeysuckle
Lyonothamnus floribundus - lyon tree
Melaleuca linariifolia - flaxleaf paperbark
Metasequoia glyptostroboides - dawn redwood
Mitchella repens - partridgeberry
Myrtus communis - myrtle
Nerium oleander - oleander
Olea europaea - olive
Osmanthus americanus - devilwood
Paulownia fortunei - dragon tree
Paulownia tomentosa - royal paulownia
Paxistima myrsinites - false box
Penstemon ellipticus - rocky ledge penstemon
Phellodendron amurense - Amur corktree
Philadelphus coronarius - mockorange
Philadelphus inodorus - scentless mockorange
Philadelphus lewisii - mockorange
Philadelphus pubescens - hoary mockorange
Pinckneya bracteata - fevertree
Podocarpus gracilior - fern pine
Podocarpus macrophyllus - shrubby yew
Poliomintha incana - rosemary mint
Rhamnus cathartica - common buckthorn
Rhizophora mangle - red mangrove
Salvia apiana - white sage
Salvia clevelandii - fragrant sage
Salvia leucophylla - purple sage
Salvia mellifera - black sage
Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis - American elderberry
Sambucus nigra ssp. cerulea - blue elderberry
Sambucus racemosa - red elderberry
Sciadopitys verticillata - umbrella pine
Sequoia sempervirens - redwood
Shepherdia canadensis - buffaloberry
Shepherdia rotundifolia - roundleaf buffaloberry
Simmondsia chinensis - jojoba
Staphylea trifolia - bladdernut
Symphoricarpos albus - snowberry
Symphoricarpos mollis - creeping snowberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus - coralberry
Syringa reticulata - Japanese tree lilac
Syringa villosa - late lilac
Syringa vulgaris - common lilac
Tabebuia aurea - Caribbean trumpet-tree
Tetradium daniellii - Korean evodia
Torreya californica - California nutmeg
Torreya taxifolia - Florida torreya
Ulex europaeus - common gorse
Viburnum acerifolium - mapleleaf viburnum
Viburnum carlesii - Koreanspice viburnum
Viburnum dentatum - arrowwood
Viburnum dilatatum - linden viburnum
Viburnum ellipticum - western viburnum
Viburnum lantana - wayfaringtree viburnum
Viburnum lantanoides - hobblebush
Viburnum lentago - nannyberry
Viburnum nudum - possumhaw viburnum
Viburnum opulus var. americanum - highbush-cranberry
Viburnum opulus var. opulus - European cranberrybush viburnum
Viburnum plicatum - doublefile viburnum
Viburnum prunifolium - blackhaw
Viburnum rhytidophyllum - leatherleaf viburnum
Viburnum rufidulum - rusty blackhaw
Viburnum xburkwoodii - Burkwood viburnum
Vinca minor - periwinkle
Vitex agnus-castus - lilac chastetree
Vitex negundo - chastetree
Vitex rotundifolia - beach vitex
Weigela florida - old fashioned weigela
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis - pricklyash
