I can see bark (on the trunk) …

Very smooth (ignore location of former branches, and mature tree lowest trunk)

many colors, each in own asymmetric[?] patches
American sycamore  Platanus occidentalis

two-color (gray with lots of lenticels[?]);  huge ⬮ leaf scars[?] thickly C-shaped, filled by large bud
tree of heaven  Ailanthus altissima

one-color (light gray),     muscular ribs
American hornbeam or 💪︎ musclewood  Carpinus caroliniana
one-color (light gray), no muscular ribs (large trees may have buttress roots[?]), often w/carved graffiti
American beech  Fagus grandifolia

one-color (red or cinnamon), may peel away in thin sheets revealing green cambium
Pacific madrone  Arbutus menziesii

Deep ║ vertical fissures or ribs

very thick ║ vertical ribs, looks covered with warts or puffy paint
hackberry  Celtis occidentalis
very thick ║ vertical ribs, and ═ horizontal ribs, too, looking like clay cubes, of different sizes in different areas of the bark
American persimmon  Diospyros virginiana

🚧 under construction
◼︎ black willow  Salix nigra

Shaggy — separates into features that hang away from the trunk

bark=  covered in burnt potato chips/crisps
mature ◼︎🍒︎ black cherry  Prunus serotina

bark=  ═ horizontal strips (rolling around trunk), thin layers, white over orange
📄︎ paper birch or ◼︎ American white birch  Betula papyrifera

bark=  ║ vertical strips

Bark=║ vertical strips

shrub with multiple stems;  bark=shaggy;  wood=brittle
honeysuckle  genus Lonicera
bark=yellow to red-brown, ragged, shaggy;  twigs=​⫴ hairy
♒︎ river birch  Betula nigra

bark=thick rigid shaggy gray ║ vertical strips, barely attached
mature shagbark hickory  Carya ovata
bark=thick rigid shaggy gray ║ vertical strips;
wild-type trees have branches and trunk have ___ ⍋ large smooth thorns[?]
🍯︎ honey locust  Gleditsia triacanthos