Tree Bark

Bark dark gray divided by irregular furrows into ridges that may flake off in older trees. Furrows with alternating layers of brown and white.

• Black Walnut

• American Elm

• Sugar Maple

• White Ash

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Bark is smooth, thin and gray with resin filled blisters.

• Yellow Birch

• Black Cherry

• Trembling Aspen

• Balsam Fir

Bark furrowed but easily cut. Dark gray within Fissures

• Basswood

• Red Oak

• Sugar Maple

• Red Maple

Bark smooth greenish white when young, more deeply fissured as it gets older.

• Bigtooth Aspen

• Black Walnut

• Red Oak

• Red Maple

Bark with drregular dark circular plates with upturned edges.

• Black Cherry

• Concolor Fir

• Red Pine

• Sugar Maple

Bark thick deeply furrowed with rounded ridges.

• Bigtooth Aspen

• Sugar Maple

• Black Walnut

• White Ash

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Bark ashy gray and divided by deep irregular furrows.

• Bigtooth Aspen

• Concolor Fir

• Black Walnut

• Red Pine

Bark dark scaly and fissured.

• Sugar Maple

• Hemlock

• Red Maple

• American Elm

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Bark reddish brown and scaly. Reddish brown more pronounced between scales.

• concolor Fir

• Scotch Pine

• Red Pine

• Larch

Young bark smooth and light gray becoming cracked, horizontally and radially, then shaggy or scaly.

• Red Maple

• Sugar Maple

• Balsam Fir

• Basswood