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Home , Carya tomentosa, Illinois, Oak, Quercus bicolor, Quercus michauxii, Quercus palustris

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black nigra one compound Carya illinoinensis one compound leaf

shingle three simple

northern oak three simple leaves

shagbark one compound leaf

bur oak three simple leaves

black oak three simple leaves mockernut hickory one compound leaf

swamp oak three simple leaves

white oak three simple leaves wild black cherry serotina ten simple leaves

pin oak three simple leaves

swamp white oak three simple leaves chinkapin or yellow chestnut oak Quercus muhlenbergii three simple leaves hackberry three simple leaves

Order List Family This poster was made possible by: orests are vital renewable and productive resources for . More than half of Illinois’ native flora and white oak Quercus alba swamp white oak Quercus bicolor half of the threatened or endangered flora are found in Illinois’ forests. More than 75 percent of the shingle oak Quercus imbricaria Illinois Department of Natural Resources F bur oak Quercus macrocarpa swamp chestnut oak Quercus michauxii Division of Education wildlife habitat in the state is in the forests. Forest-related industries employ nearly 65,000 in Illinois pin oak Quercus palustris Division of chinkapin or and contribute over $4.5 billion annually to the state’s economy through value added by manufacturing. Kingdom Plantae yellow chestnut oak Quercus muhlenbergii northern red oak Quercus rubra There are four distinctive forest types found in the state: bottomland forest; upland forest; Division Magnoliophyta black oak Quercus velutina Class Magnoliopsida Illinois Department of Transportation coniferous forest; and lowland forest. Bottomland forests are large timbered areas bordering Order Juglandales Family pecan Carya illinoinensis swamps or rivers. In Illinois, they cover about 809,000 acres. Upland deciduous forests have canopied trees shagbark hickory Carya ovata mockernut hickory Carya tomentosa that lose their leaves in the fall and are areas that are not subject to flooding. Of the state’s 4.3 million forest black walnut Design: Illinois State Museum acres, 3.6 million are deciduous forest. Coniferous forests contain cone-bearing trees. Illinois has Order Rosales Family Rosaceae wild black cherry about 72,000 acres of coniferous forest, most of it in the southern third of the state. Southern Illinois lowlands Leaves and are not shown in equal proportion cover about 11,700 acres. This is the northernmost extension of ’s . to actual size. All images Order Urticales © IDNR, Chas. J. Dees, Family Ulmaceae Photographer. hackberry Celtis occidentalis Species Descriptions chinkapin oak hackberry mockernut hickory Quercus muhlenbergii Celtis occidentalis Carya tomentosa black oak black walnut bur oak The chinkapin oak, also known as the The range of the hackberry encompasses The mockernut hickory, or white hickory, Quercus velutina Juglans nigra Quercus macrocarpa chinquapin or yellow chestnut oak, occurs an area from to South occurs from Massachusetts to southern The black oak grows in upland The black walnut occurs in all regions of The bur oak, also known as the mossy- from to and south to and south to , , Ontario and south to and . forests and in April and May the state. Its national range extends from cup oak, occurs statewide in Illinois. In , Texas, and southern Florida. In and . Found statewide in Illinois, In Illinois, it grows on dry, wooded slopes when the leaves begin to unfold. The Massachusetts to Minnesota and south to the , its range stretches from Illinois it grows in scattered locations on this grows in low woodlands. The and shaded in the southern two- hard, red- is used for Texas and Florida. This tree grows in rich Vermont to and south to low, rich slopes, wooded hillsides, and dry hackberry flowers in April and May after thirds of the state. Flowers are produced construction, fuel, and posts. woodlands. Flowering occurs in April and Texas, , , and . cliffs. This tree flowers in April and May. its leaves are partially grown. Its heavy, in the spring after the leaves have begun to The black oak occurs in all regions of May, when the leaves are partly grown. Its This tree grows almost anywhere, from The heavy, strong wood is used for fence soft, pale-yellow wood is used for making unfold. The wood of this tree is used for the state. Nationally, it grows from hard, dark-brown wood is used for making dry ridges to bottomland woods. The posts, fuel, and railroad ties. fence posts and . handles, fence posts, and as fuel. to Minnesota and south to furniture, cabinets, and interior . bur oak flowers in April and May, about Description: General Description: General Description: Texas and Florida. The nuts provide food for wildlife and are the time that its leaves begin to unfold. The chinkapin oak The hackberry may This hickory tree used in cooking. Its heavy, hard wood is used for cabinets, may grow to 100 feet tall with a trunk grow to 80 feet tall with a trunk diameter may grow to a height of 90 feet with a General Description: The black oak , fence posts, and fuel. diameter of 4 feet. The trunk is straight, of 5 feet. Its is gray and “warty,” trunk diameter of 3 feet. The crown is may grow to a height of 80 feet and a General Description: A black walnut columnar, and buttressed at the base. The becoming scaly and rough as the tree ages. rounded. The dark-gray bark has shallow I l l i n o i s diameter of about 3½ feet. Its crown tree may grow to a height of 150 feet and General Description: The bur oak may bark is pale gray with scaly ridges. furrows that often produce a diamond- Leaf: is rounded or oblong with spreading a trunk diameter of 5 feet. The trunk is grow to 120 feet tall with a trunk diameter shaped pattern. The red-brown, hairy buds Leaf: . The trunk is straight with straight, and the crown is rounded. The of 5 feet. Its bark is dark brown or yellow- The The simple are about 1 inch long. I l l i n o i s simple leaves leaves are minimal buttressing at the base. bark is thick, black, and deeply furrowed. brown with deep furrows. The bud is Leaf: The outer bark is black and deeply The pith in the twigs is chambered, or rounded or slightly pointed at the tip, are arranged arranged furrowed, with a yellow or divided by partitions. The bud is rounded yellow-brown to red-brown, and hairy. alternately on the alternately The pinnately inner bark. at the tip, pale stem. Each leaf is on the stem. compound brown, and hairy. Leaf: The simple leaves are arranged lance-shaped Each leaf is leaves are Leaf: The leaves are alternately along the stem. The leaf blade and coarsely oval to lance- arranged arranged alternately Leaf: The pinnately is broad at the upper end and coarsely toothed. The shaped and alternately on the stem. The compound leaves round-toothed. The leaf has five to seven leaf is smooth is uneven at along the stem. T r e e s simple leaf blade have 15 to 23 leaflets lobes. Each leaf and yellow- its base. The leaf is usually coarsely toothed Each leaf has has seven to nine and are arranged is dark green, green on the upper surface, paler and hairy and is up to 6 inches long and 3 inches five to nine shallow lobes, each alternately on the and smooth or on the lower surface, and up to 8 inches wide. leaflets, and bristle-tipped. The leaf is dark stem. Each lance- slightly hairy long and 5 inches wide. each leaflet may be up to 8 inches long and : green, shiny and smooth on the upper shaped leaflet is up to 3½ inches long and on the upper The flowers are arranged in 4 inches wide. Leaflets are finely toothed. Flower: surface, and is hairy or hairy only 1½ inches wide. The leaflet is toothed surface and pale Male (staminate) and female drooping clusters (sometimes singly). The The yellow-green leaflet is hairy on the along the veins on the lower surface. along the edges, yellow-green and smooth and hairy on the lower surface. The leaf is (pistillate) flowers are separate but occur flower is green-yellow with no petals. upper surface and paler and hairy on the Each leaf may be up to 10 inches on the upper surface, and paler and hairy up to 14 inches long and 7 inches wide, on the same tree. The tiny flower does not lower surface. The leafstalks and twigs are : long and 8 inches wide with a 5-inch on the lower surface. Leaves turn yellow in with a 1-inch leafstalk. have petals. Male flowers are arranged in The dark-purple fruit is nearly also hairy. 1 leafstalk. the fall. ; female flowers are in small groups. round, about /3 inch in diameter. Each Flower: Flower: Male and female flowers are fruit contains one . The fruit ripens in Male (staminate) and female Fruit: Flower: Male (staminate) and female Flower: Male (staminate) and female separate but occur on the same tree. The fruit is an . Borne in September and October. (pistillate) flowers are separate but occur (pistillate) flowers are separate but (pistillate) flowers are separate but occur Neither type of flower has petals. Male groups of one or two, each acorn is ovoid, on the same tree. The tiny flowers do not occur on the same tree. The tiny on the same tree. The male flowers are (staminate) flowers are arranged in chestnut-colored, and up to ¾ inch long. have petals. The male flowers are arranged flower has no petals. Male flowers are arranged in yellow-green, hairy catkins; the drooping catkins; female (pistillate) flowers The cup has hairy scales and covers about in drooping catkins; female flowers are in arranged in drooping clusters, whereas female flowers are in small spikes. Neither are clustered in a small group. half of the . groups of two to five. female flowers are in groups of one to male nor female flowers have petals. Fruit: four. Fruit: The fruit is an acorn, which is The fruit is generally spherical, about Fruit: The spherical are arranged usually solitary. The dark brown acorn may 2 inches in diameter with a red-brown Fruit: The fruit is an acorn, which is in groups of one or two. Each green or be ovoid or ellipsoid and up to 1¾ inches husk. The red-brown nut has a small, sweet borne singly or in pairs. The acorn is yellow-green walnut may be up to 2 inches long. The hairy cup covers half to nearly all seed. red-brown, ovoid, or ellipsoid, and not in diameter. The husk on the fruit is thick. of the nut and has a fringe of long scales. more than half enclosed by the cup. The nut is very hard, oval, dark brown, The cup has a ragged edge. The acorn and deeply ridged. The seed is sweet to the may be up to ¾ inch long. taste.

northern red oak pecan pin oak shagbark hickory shingle oak swamp chestnut swamp white oak white oak wild black cherry Quercus rubra Carya illinoinensis Quercus palustris Carya ovata Quercus imbricaria Quercus bicolor Quercus alba Prunus serotina Occurring statewide in Illinois, the range The pecan tree grows from and The pin oak grows in floodplain woods, The shagbark hickory occurs statewide in Shingle oak occurs throughout Illinois as oak The swamp white oak occurs statewide in White oak occurs from Maine to Wild black cherry occurs throughout of the northern red oak extends from New Illinois, south to Texas and Alabama, and along , at the edges of swamps, and Illinois. It grows in rich, upland woods well as from to Nebraska and Quercus michauxii Illinois. The range of this species extends Minnesota and south to Texas and Florida. Illinois. Its range extends from Nova Brunswick to Minnesota and south to in . Its range in Illinois includes near ponds throughout Illinois. Its range from Maine to Minnesota and south to south to , Arkansas, and South The range of the swamp chestnut oak is from Maine to Minnesota and south to It grows in moist to dry woods. White oak Scotia to Ontario and south to Texas and Alabama. It grows in rich, upland woods, the southern three-fourths of the state extends from Massachusetts to Iowa and Texas and Florida. This species flowers Carolina. This species grows in field edges from New Jersey to and south Tennessee and northern Alabama. It grows is the state tree of Illinois, and it occurs Florida. It grows in wood edges, fencerows, along river banks, and on well-drained and areas along the River. This south to Oklahoma and Virginia. This after its leaves begin to unfold, during and woods and sometimes on limestone to Texas and Florida, including the in low woods and swamps, flowering statewide. This species flowers in April thickets, and roadsides. Flowers are slopes. The northern red oak flowers in tree grows in moist woods, particularly tree flowers from April through May. Its April and May. The heavy, hard wood cliffs. Flowers are produced from April southern third of Illinois. Growing in low from April through May. This tree’s wood and May as its leaves begin to unfold. The produced in May. The red-brown wood is April and May as its leaves begin to unfold. along rivers. The pecan flowers in April are a good source of food for many is used for tool handles, fuel, hickory- through May. The fruits, leaves, stems, and woods and swamps, this tree flowers from is hard, heavy, and strong. It is used heavy, strong wood is used for interior lightweight, hard, and strong, and is used Its hard, heavy wood is used for interior and May when its leaves are partly grown. species of wildlife. Its wood is heavy, hard, smoked cooking, and bats. The buds of this tree provide a source of food April through May. The wood is hard, for cabinets, fence posts, and interior finishing, cabinets, general construction, to make cabinets and furniture. The fruit finishing, furniture, fuel, and fence posts. Its hard, heavy wood is used for interior coarse-grained, and pale brown and is used nuts provide food for wildlife and are used for some wildlife species. Shingle oak wood heavy, and strong. It is used for general finishing. fence posts, and fuel. serves as a food source for wildlife species, finishing, furniture, fuel, and tool handles. for general construction, fuel, and fence in cooking. is used for roofing shingles and general construction, fuel, and fence posts. which disperse the undigested seeds with General Description: The northern red It is extensively cultivated for its nuts, and posts. The pin oak is often planted as an construction. The red-brown wood is hard General Description: This tree may General Description: The white oak may their feces. oak may grow to a height of 80 feet and a cultivated varieties have nuts about twice ornamental. General Description: The shagbark and heavy. General Description: The swamp chestnut grow to a height of 70 feet with a trunk grow to a height of 100 feet and a trunk trunk diameter of 3 feet. Its bark is gray to as large as those of wild trees. are a hickory may grow to a height of 80 feet oak, also known as the basket oak or cow diameter of 3 feet. Its crown is broad diameter of 3 feet. Its crown is broad with General Description: The wild black dark gray with wide ridges. good source of food for wildlife. General Description: The pin oak may and a trunk diameter of nearly 4 feet. Its General Description: A shingle oak tree oak, may attain a height of 100 feet and and rounded. The bark is gray-brown, horizontal branches. The bark is light gray cherry may attain a height of 75 feet and grow to a height of 75 feet. The narrowly crown is rounded with some branches may grow to 70 feet tall with a trunk a trunk diameter of 6 feet. The crown is furrowed, and flaky. Buds are clustered at and scaly. a trunk diameter of up to 3 feet. Its crown Leaf: General Description: The pecan tree may rounded or oblong crown is supported by hanging down. Its gray bark separates diameter of 3 feet. Its crown is rounded rounded. The bark is gray and scaly. The the twig tips. Each yellow-brown bud is is rounded. The thin, smooth, red-brown The simple grow to a height of 150 feet and a trunk a straight trunk. Trunk diameter is usually into long, shredding scales, giving the or oblong with many branches. The trunk hairy buds are pointed, about ¼ inch long. about 1/3 inch long. Leaf: The bark of the young tree becomes black and leaves are diameter of 3 feet. The tree’s rounded less than 3 feet. Pinlike stubs and drooping tree a shaggy is straight and covered with dark brown, simple leaves scaly as the tree ages. arranged crown spreads widely. Its trunk is relatively lower branches are a distinctive trait of this appearance. deeply furrowed bark. A cross- of a Leaf: The simple leaves are arranged Leaf: The simple leaves are arranged are arranged alternately short and straight. Its bark is red-brown species. The bark is light or dark brown red-brown twig reveals a star-shaped pith. alternately along the stem. Each oval leaf alternately along the stem. The leaf blade alternately Leaf: Leaves are arranged alternately on on the stem. with platelike with little furrowing. Leaf: is pointed at the tip and tapering is broadest near the tip. Each coarsely along the the stem. Each simple, oblong, or oval leaf Each leaf has scales. The pinnately Leaf: Leaves are arranged alternately along at the base. A leaf may be 10 toothed leaf is up to 6 inches long and stem. Each leaf is up to 6 inches long. The green, smooth, seven to 11 Leaf: The leaves are simple, up to 7 inches compound the twigs. The simple, elliptical leaves inches long and 6 inches 4 inches wide. The leaf is white and hairy has seven to shiny leaf is finely shallow lobes, Leaf: long and divided more than halfway to leaves are are up to 6 inches long and 2 wide. The thick leaf has on the lower surface. nine rounded toothed. The leafstalk is each tipped by The pinnately the middle into five to seven lobes, each arranged inches wide. Each leaf scalloped edges, a green upper lobes. The upper surface is green and about 1 inch long with bristles. Leaves compound leaves tipped with a bristle. Leaves are arranged alternately is dark green, smooth, surface, and a white, hairy Flower: Male smooth while the lower surface is paler one or more red glands are dark green and are arranged alternately along the . Each slender, along the stem. and shiny on the lower surface. The hairy leafstalk (staminate) and and smooth. A leaf may grow to 10 inches near the tip. smooth or a little hairy on the upper alternately along usually smooth, leafstalk may be up to 2 Each leaf contains five to seven ovate or upper surface, and may be 1½ inches long. female (pistillate) long and about 5 inches wide. Leaves turn surface, and paler and smooth or with the stem. Each inches long. lance-shaped leaflets. Each finely toothed paler and hairy on flowers are separate yellow to red in the fall. Leaves on the Flower: Small hairs along the veins on the lower surface. leaf has nine to 19 leaflet may grow to 10 inches long and 5 the lower surface. The shingle oak and Flower: Male (staminate) and female but occur on the same same tree may vary considerably in their white flowers with Leaves are up to 10 inches long and 6 lance-shaped leaflets. Leaflets are double- inches wide. Leaves are yellow-green or oak are the only two oak species (pistillate) flowers are separate but occur tree. Flowers are tiny and appearance. five petals occur in inches wide on a 2-inch leafstalk. toothed, yellow-green, smooth on the green on the smooth upper surface and that have leaves without any teeth or lobes. on the same tree. The tiny flowers have lack petals. Male flowers are in drooping drooping clusters up to 6 inches long. upper side and paler and smooth or hairy paler and smooth or somewhat hairy on The hairy leafstalk is approximately ½ inch no petals. Male flowers occur in catkins; catkins; female flowers are in groups of two Flower: Male (staminate) and female Flower: Male (staminate) and female on the lower side. Leaflets are up to 8 the lower surface. long. female flowers grow in clusters. to four. (pistillate) flowers are separate but occur Fruit: The fleshy edible fruit is dark purple (pistillate) flowers are separate but occur inches long and 3 inches wide. on the same tree. The tiny flowers do not to black, about 3/8 inch in diameter, and on the same tree. The tiny flowers do not Flower: Male (staminate) and female Flower: Male (staminate) and female Fruit: The fruit is a brown acorn that may Fruit: The fruit is an acorn. Acorns grow have petals. Male flowers are arranged in contains a single seed. The cherries make have petals. Male flowers are arranged in Flower: Male (staminate) and female Flower: Male (staminate) flowers occur on (pistillate) flowers are separate but occur (pistillate) flowers are separate but develop grow to 1½ inches long. The ovoid or in pairs on stalks 1 inch or longer. The pale drooping, yellow catkins; the red female excellent jelly. drooping catkins; female flowers are in (pistillate) flowers are separate but occur slender, drooping spikes; female (pistillate) on the same tree. The tiny flower has on the same tree. The flowers are tiny and ellipsoid acorns grow singly or in pairs and brown, ovoid nut is 1 to 1½ inches long. flowers are in small groups. groups of one to three. on the same tree. The male flowers are flowers occur in clusters. The flowers no petals. Male flowers are arranged in lack petals. Male flowers are clustered in may or may not have a stalk. The thick, The thick, hairy cup encloses a third of the arranged in drooping, yellow-green catkins are small, with male and female flowers drooping catkins; female flowers are in thin, yellow catkins; female flowers are hairy cup encloses the acorn for about a acorn. Fruit: The fruit is an acorn, which occurs Fruit: Fruits are acorns occurring solitary while the female flowers are in shorter separate but on the same tree. groups of two to five. borne in small clusters. third of its length. singly or in pairs on the stem. The acorn or in pairs. Each pale-brown acorn is spikes. Neither type of flower has petals. is oblong, up to ¾ inch long, green to ovoid and up to 1½ inches long; the cup is Fruit: The pale-brown acorns grow in Fruit: The fruit is a spherical or ovoid nut, Fruit: The fruit is a dark brown, nearly green-brown, and shiny. The acorn is not red-brown with tight scales and covers less Fruit: The fruit is an ellipsoid nut that is clusters of one to four and are up to about 2 inches wide. The husk is yellow- spherical acorn, which is borne solitary or borne on a stalk. The yellow-brown cup than a fourth of the seed. pointed at the tip and up to 2 inches long ½ inch wide. Acorns may have dark lines. green to red-brown, about ½ inch thick. in pairs, on a short stalk. The red-brown, has warty scales and covers a fourth of the and 1 inch wide. Its thin husk has four The acorn cup encloses less than a fourth The four-angled, white nut is sweet. slightly hairy cup encloses less than half of seed. wings. The nut is red-brown with black of the acorn and is thin, saucer-shaped, the seed. markings and has a thin shell. Its seed is and red-brown, with fine hairs. sweet to the taste.

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ForestForest FactsFacts fruit a mature ovary of a flower TreeTree CluesClues AgencyAgency ResourcesResources that protects dormant seeds and aids in their dispersal The white oak, Quercus alba, is the state tree of Illinois. Use this section to gather clues about a specific deciduous tree and to identify the species in a field guide More information about trees is available from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR). Occurring throughout the state, the white oak is an excellent nut a hard-shelled, solid- to the trees. (Deciduous: shedding leaves at the end of the growing .) n The IDNR Divisions of Education and Forestry offer forestry-related educational materials including . Its wood is used for , veneer, , textured, one-seeded fruit, such Tree Shape posters, lessons, CD-ROMs and activity books. Request these items at http://www.idnrteachkids.com. as an acorn, that does not split flooring, furniture, and construction. n The Illinois Tree Trunks are containers filled with supplemental items to help you teach about trees. open at maturity, or a seed borne within a fruit having a hard shell, Contents include activity kits, tree cookies, leaf samples, seed samples, books, field guides, DVDs, Known for its strength, white oak wood was used in the such as a walnut equipment, lessons and more. The Tree Trunks may be borrowed from locations throughout Illinois. Go to http://dnr.state.il.us/lands/education/CLASSRM/tree.htm for a list of lending locations. construction of the U.S.S. Constitution. During a naval seed a embryo and its battle in the War of 1812, soldiers reported that cannon balls food supply stored together round oval pyramidal v-shaped columnar irregular n The Division of Forestry conducts the annual Arbor Day Poster Contest for fifth-grade students. bounced off the hull of this , resulting in its nickname within a protective coat n Kids for Trees is a CD-ROM for teachers of grades Pre-K through three. It contains two videos, lessons, “Old Ironsides.” Branching Patterns background information, student activities and more resources to help you teach about trees. Teachers in Illinois may obtain a copy of this item by written request on school letterhead. Send request to the opposite, alternate, whorled, IDNR Division of Education (see address below). Ninety-eight percent of Illinois forests are composed of species, and 43 percent of branches across branches three branches at n The IDNR Division of Forestry is authorized by the State Forest Act to conduct an annual Seed Col- the hardwood trees are white and red (Quercus rubra) oak. from each other on different same level lection Program. Collected seeds are used to propagate native trees and . For further informa- at the same level levels tion, contact the IDNR Division of Forestry at the address below. More than 250 species of trees (native and introduced) have been recorded in Illinois. n The Illinois Natural History Survey studies trees and maintains a research collection of tree materials. Bark color: texture: pattern: attachment: n The Biodiversity of Illinois series of CD-ROMs contains much information about trees in a field guide brown smooth diamond tight format. Images, life history information, range maps, classification and many other features are avail- Illinois forests provide habitat for more than 420 vertebrate species. gray ridged horizontal loose able. Teachers in Illinois may send a written request on school letterhead to the IDNR Division of black deep vertical Education (see address below). About 120 bird species use Illinois forests for their primary nest sites. red-brown shallow white Illinois Department of Natural Resources In 1820, forests covered 13.8 million acres in Illinois (38 percent of the state). The United Leaves States Forest Service (USFS) 1998 inventory estimated 4.9 million acres of forests (14 percent Division of Education Division of Forestry attachment: simple, single blade compound, more than one blade One Natural Resources Way One Natural Resources Way of the state) in Illinois. The USFS estimated that between 1962 and 1998 forest cover in palmate, like a hand Springfield, IL 62702-1271 Springfield, IL 62702-1271 Illinois increased by more than 10 percent. 217-524-4126 pinnate, like a feather 217-785-8774 [email protected] bipinnate, two times like a feather http://dnr.state.il.us Arbor Day is a nationally celebrated observance that encourages tree planting and tree care. Founded by J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska in 1872, National Arbor Day is celebrated each arrangement: opposite alternate Illinois Natural History Survey year on the last Friday in April. http://www.arborday.org/ 1816 South Oak Street Champaign, IL 61820 217-333-6880 http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu

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