Urban Detective

TREE LEAF IDENTIFICATION SOLVER

Narrow your selection by stem arrangement and leaf type. Then view the trees with these leaves.
There are over 130 leaf images available.

Select broad or needle like at right

Broad Leaf (not needle like)

Needle like

Select opposite or alternate stem at right

Opposite stem arrangement

Alternate stem arrangement

Broad/alternate stem
Select compound or simple leaf arrangement on stem at right

compound leaves on stem

simple leaf on stem

Broad/alternate/simple
Select rounded lobes, pointed lobes, or no lobes

rounded lobes

pointed lobes

no lobes lobes on leaves

Broad/alternate/simple/no-lobes
Select smooth or toothed margins

smooth leaf margin

toothed leaf margin

You selected BROAD LEAF, OPPOSITE STEM ARRANGEMENT. You probably have one of the following trees.
Red maple	Silver maple	Sugar maple	Norway maple	Boxelder	Green Ash
White Ash	Dogwood

You selected BROAD LEAF, ALTERNATE-COMPOUND STEM ARRANGEMENT. You probably have one of the following trees.
Bitternut hickory	Mockernut hickory	Pignut hickory	Shagbark hickory	Smooth sumac	Staghorn sumac
Winged sumac	Black Walnut	Butternut	Black Locust	Honey Locust	Tree of Heaven

You selected BROAD LEAF, ALTERNATE STEM ARRANGEMENT, ROUNDED LOBES. You probably have one of the following trees.
White Oak	Chestnut Oak	Post Oak	Water Oak	Sassafras	Mullberry

You selected BROAD LEAF, ALTERNATE STEM ARRANGEMENT, POINTED LOBES. You probably have one of the following trees.
Pin Oak	Black Oak	Northern Red Oak	Southern Red Oak	Scarlet Oak	Sycamore
Sweetgum	Holly	Tulip-poplar

You selected BROAD LEAF, ALTERNATE STEM ARRANGEMENT, NO LOBES, SMOOTH MARGINS. You probably have one of the following trees.
Live Oak	Willow Oak	Pawpaw	Redbud	Magnolia	Persimmon

You selected BROAD LEAF, ALTERNATE STEM ARRANGEMENT, NO LOBES, TOOTHED MARGINS. You probably have one of the following trees.
Paper birch	Gray birch	European White birch	Black birch	River birch	American chestnut
Eastern chinkapin	American elm	Slippery elm	Hackberry	Sweet cherry	Black cherry
Fire cherry	Black willow	Weeping willow	Cottonwood	American beach	Hornbeam
Hophornbeam	Sourwood	Basswood	Mullberry

Needle type - Select cluster, not cluster, scale-like

needles are in clusters or bundles (pines)

needles appear singly, not in clusters

needles are scale-like, overlapping to make branches that look flat

You selected NEEDLE TYPE, NEEDLES APPEAR SINGLY, NOT CLUSTER ARRANGEMENT.
You probably have one of the following trees.

Needles are four-sided, roll between fingers - Spruce

Needles are two-sided, do not roll - Hemlock

Needles are feather-like, usually in swamps- Cypress

You selected NEEDLE TYPE LEAF, CLUSTER OR BUNDLE ARRANGEMENT. You probably have one of the following trees.
Five needles per fascicle - Eastern White Pine	Three needles per fascicle - Loblolly Pine	Two and three needles per fascicle (on same tree)- Shortleaf Pine	Two needles per fascicle - Virginia Pine

You selected NEEDLE TYPE LEAF, NO CLUSTER OR BUNDLE ARRANGEMENT, FOUR-SIDED NEEDLE. You probably have one of the following trees.
Blue Spruce	Red Spruce	Norway Spruce

You selected NEEDLE TYPE LEAF, NO CLUSTER OR BUNDLE ARRANGEMENT, HEMLOCK. You probably have one of the following trees.
Eastern Hemlock	Carolina Hemlock

You selected NEEDLE TYPE LEAF, NO CLUSTER OR BUNDLE ARRANGEMENT, CYPRESS. You probably have one of the following trees.
Bald Cypress	Redwood Cypress

You selected NEEDLE TYPE LEAF, SCALE-LIKE, CEDAR (needles are scale-like, overlapping to make branches that look flat). You probably have one of the following trees.
Red Cedar	Northern White Cedar