Hiker's Guide
to the Trees,
Shrubs
and Vines
of Ricketts Glen
State Park
SPECIES LIST (SCIENTIFIC NAME) AND GUIDE TO PHOTOGRAPHS
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Genus |
Species (photos) |
Common Name |
striped maple |
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red maple |
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sugar maple |
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mountain maple |
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downy juneberry, shadbush |
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smooth juneberry, smooth shadbush |
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Aralia |
wild sarsaparilla |
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Berberis |
Japanese barberry |
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yellow birch |
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black birch |
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gray birch |
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Caragana |
Siberian peashrub |
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Carpinus |
American hornbeam |
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bitternut hickory |
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pignut hickory |
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shagbark hickory |
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Castanea |
American chestnut |
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Chamaedaphne |
leatherleaf |
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Clematis |
virgin's-bower |
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Comptonia |
sweetfern |
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Coptis |
goldthread |
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Cornus |
alternate-leaf dogwood |
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Crataegus |
fanleaf hawthorn |
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Crataegus |
Washington hawthorn |
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Diervilla |
northern bush honeysuckle |
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Epigaea |
trailing arbutus |
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Euonymus |
winged burning bush |
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Fagus |
American beech |
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Fraxinus |
white ash; including green ash |
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creeping snowberry |
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wintergreen, teaberry |
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Gaylussacia |
black huckleberry |
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Hamamelis |
common witch-hazel |
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Hydrangea |
wild hydrangea |
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Ilex |
largeleaf holly |
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Juniperus |
Eastern Red-Cedar |
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sheep laurel |
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mountain laurel |
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European larch |
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American larch |
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Liriodendron |
tulip-tree |
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Lonicera |
Canada honeysuckle, fly honeysuckle |
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Magnolia |
cucumber magnolia |
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Mitchella |
partridgeberry |
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Nyssa |
black gum |
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Ostrya |
hophornbeam |
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Parthenocissus |
Virginia creeper |
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Photinia |
black chokeberry |
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Physocarpus |
ninebark |
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Picea |
red spruce |
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Pinus | banksiana | jack pine |
Pinus | resinosa | red pine |
pitch pine |
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white pine |
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Scots pine, Scotch pine |
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Platanus | occidentalis | sycamore |
Populus | grandidentata | bigtooth aspen |
trembling aspen, quaking aspen |
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fire, pin cherry |
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black cherry |
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white oak |
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scrub oak |
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Quercus | montana | chestnut oak |
dwarf chestnut oak |
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Northern red oak |
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black oak |
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Rhododendron | prinophyllum | mountain azalea |
bristly black currant |
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roundleaf gooseberry |
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Robinia |
bristly locust |
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Robinia |
black locust |
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pasture rose |
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multiflora rose |
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highbush blackberry |
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swamp dewberry |
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wild red raspberry |
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wild black raspberry |
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flowering raspberry |
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Salix | bebbiana | Bebb willow |
prarie willow |
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meadow willow |
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silky willow |
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Sambucus |
common elderberry |
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Sambucus |
red elderberry |
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Sassafras |
sassafras |
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Smilax |
common greenbrier |
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Sorbus |
American mountain ash |
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meadowsweet |
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steeplebush spirea |
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Taxus |
Canadian Yew |
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Tilia |
American basswood |
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Toxicodendron |
poison ivy |
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Tsuga |
Eastern hemlock |
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lowbush blueberry |
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highbush blueberry |
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cranberry |
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sour-top blueberry |
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deerberry |
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mapleleaf viburnum |
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hobblebush |
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Northern wild-raisin |
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Northern arrowwood |
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summer grape |
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riverbank grape |