Leaf and Tree
Identification
Description: Identify trees using various clues
Number of Participants: 2
The Competition
1. Team will use clues such as leaves, seeds, other tree parts,
and pictures to identify trees from a list provided to coaches.
2. A team may bring one field guide [book] with them, but no handmade chart.
3. Students will travel from station to station while answering a question[s] at each station.
4. The parts of this event will be:
A. View seeds, pods, fruits and name the tree.
B. View leaves and name the tree
C. View bark [actual or photograph] and name the tree
D. View silhouettes and name the tree
[likely will come from Peterson Field Guide to Trees]
E. View twigs and identify tree
5. Identification will be expected by the names given in the following lists.
Scoring
Team with the most questions answered correctly is the winner
Tie Breaker [if any]
Best score on leaf section, then on bark.
Leaves for Identification
Ash, aspen, basswood, beech, birch, box elder, buckeye, catalpa, cedar,
cherry, chestnut, coffee tree, cottonwood, cucumber, dogwood, elm,
ginkgo, hawthorn, hemlock, hickory, holly, honey locust, hornbeam, hop
tree, horse chestnut, locust, maple, metasequoia, mulberry, oak,
osage orange , paw paw, poplar, sassafras, sumac, sweet gum, sycamore,
tamarack, Tree-of-Heaven, tulip tree, white pine, walnut, willow.
Silhouettes
Cedar, elm, pin oak, shagbark hickory, stag horn sumac, sweet gum, sycamore, tree-of-heaven, tulip tree, weeping willow.
Twigs
birch ,catalpa, hawthorn, locust, Osage-orange, stag horn sumac, sweet gum, sycamore
Seeds
Ash, basswood, beech, birch, buckeye, catalpa, cedar, chestnut, coffee
tree, cucumber, dogwood, hawthorn, hickory, holly, hop tree, hornbeam,
horse chestnut, maple, oak, osage orange, sweet gum, sycamore,
tree-of-heaven, tulip tree, walnut
Barks
Beech, birch, cherry ,shagbark hickory, locust, red maple, stag horn sumac, sycamore