Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Hickory trees have a leaf with less than nine leaflets and an alternate leaf ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Leaves are the food factories of the tree. Powered by sunlight, the green ...

If you were a Girl Scout or a Boy Scout, you probably heard the adage "leaves of three, let them be" to deter you from getting poison ivy rash. And, while it is true that a poison ivy leaf contains ...

Poison ivy has a compound leaf made up of 3 leaflets which can be 1 to 4 inches long. The middle leaflet is the only one with a long stalk. Courtesy Johnson County Extension Just the mention of the ...

Suppose for a minute that you’re walking down the sidewalk and a passerby stops and asks you to identify the tree growing next to you. What feature of that tree are you going to reference to get the ...

Spring is in full bloom and trees are beginning to look green again. Learning how to identify trees in yards, neighborhoods and local parks provides insight into the diversity and relationships found ...