with … buds have inner-scale=hairy, between 2 outer-scales; twigs=hairy🇪🇺 🗻︎ European mountain ash Sorbus aucuparia buds have inner-scale=hairy, between 2 sticky outer-scales; twigs=smooth🗻︎ American mountain ash Sorbus americana
buds=smooth, red-brown, stalked, covered like a clam (valvate or duckbill); ⊚ pith[?]=⛛ triangular🇪🇺 ◼︎ European black alder Alnus glutinosa
bud scales=overlapping; leaf scars have single bundle scar; fruit may persistAmerican persimmon Diospyros virginiana
bud scales=overlapping; leaf scars have ≥3 bundle scars; twigs+buds=chestnut-brown; ⊚ pith[?]=⊛❀ 5-sided; many raised white lenticels🌰︎ American chestnut Castanea dentata
buds=red or red+green; bud scales=overlapping, slightly hairy; leaf scars have ≥3 bundle scars◼︎ white basswood Tilia heterophylla buds=red or red+green; bud scales=overlapping, not hairy; leaf scars have ≥3 bundle scarsAmerican basswood or American linden Tilia americana
🏠︎ 🌳︎🍃︎ broadleaf branches, ╟ alternate, list of attributes, no catkins thorns pods, w/terminal buds