Nature is a language, Can't you read?

Learning how to describe leaves helps:

• In identification
• The individual communicate characteristics of a tree or bush to another.

The American Ash Tree

Fraxinus americana

• A criss-cross patterning
• Bark Peels
• impacted by the Emerald Ash borer

Emerald Ash borer

Leaf Identification

• A Pinnately Compound Leaf (depend on location of the bud)
• opposite arrangement of leaves
• pinnate venation
• Elliptical leaf shape
• leaf margins entire (no serration)

Your Turn!

Fill out your forms for each of the tree samples that you have