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Identify Maine's most common foliage species

Can you identify Maine's most common foliage species? Answers are located at the bottom of this page. (Print this page and color the leaves.)

Beech Birch

Oak Quaking Aspen

Red Maple Sugar Maple

Tamarack White Ash

Answers: 1. Beech, 2. Birch, 3. Oak, 4. Quaking Aspen, 5. Red Maple, 6. Sugar Maple, 7. Tamarack, 8. White Ash

Maine's 14 Native Conifers

  • Cedar: Atlantic White, Eastern Red and Northern White
  • Fir: Balsam
  • Hemlock: Eastern
  • Juniper: Common
  • Larch: Tamarack
  • Pine: Eastern White
  • Jack (Gray)
  • Pitch
  • Red (Norway)
  • Spruce: Black, Red and White (Cat)

Maine's 52 Native Leaf Trees

  • Ash: Black, Green and White
  • Aspen (Poplar): Balsam, Bigtooth, and Quaking
  • Basswood: American
  • Beech: American
  • Birch: Blueleaf, Gray, Mountain Paper, Paper (White), Sweet, and Yellow
  • Butternut
  • Cherry: Black and Pin (Fire)
  • Chestnut: American
  • Dogwood: Alternate-Leaf and Flowering
  • Elm: American and Slippery
  • Hawthorn: (Thorn-Apple)
  • Hickory: Shagbark and Bitternut
  • Hop-Hornbeam: Eastern
  • Hornbeam: American
  • Maple: Black, Mountain, Red (Swamp), Silver (Soft), Striped (Moosewood) and Sugar (Hard or Rock)
  • Mountain-Ash: American and Showy
  • Nannyberry
  • Oak: Black (Yellow), Bur, Chestnut, Northern Red, Scarlet, Swamp White, and White
  • Plum: Canada (Red)
  • Sassafras
  • Serviceberry: Downy (Shad Bush) and Allegheny
  • Sumac: Staghorn
  • Sycamore: American Buttonwood
  • Tupelo: Black (Blackgum)
  • Willow: Black
  • Witch-Hazel