with
leaflets
usually numbering/arranged …
leaflets=5 or more, radiating from 🍁︎ one point (🖐 palmate[?]); fruit a large capsule
🌰︎ buckeye / 🐎︎ 🌰︎ horse chestnut genus Aesculus
OR they are NOT (they have leaflets=3 or more, arranged
🌿︎ pinnate
), but with …
3 leaflets, side leaflets asymmetrically 2-lobed, end leaflet not- or 3-lobed, each lobe ending in a very-pointy (but soft) tip; ☙ vine; purple elongated flower clusters
kudzu Pueraria montana
OR they are NOT, but with …
leaflets have different sizes and shapes
boxelder maple Acer negundo
OR they are NOT, but with …
leaflets have no petiolule[?] (grow direct from leaf-stem); leaflets=7–9–11; leaf length=25–40 cm (10–16 in)
◼︎ black ash Fraxinus nigra
OR they are NOT, but with …
leaflets are regularly toothed; twigs=◼︎ square with ✦ corky wings
◼︎ blue ash Fraxinus quadrangulata
OR they are NOT, but with …
twigs and leaf stalks are ⫴ hairy
◼︎ red ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica
OR they are NOT, but with …
leaflets=5–7–9; leaflet undersurface=whitish; ⬮ leaf scar[?] shape=C
◼︎ white ash Fraxinus americana
leaflet uppersurface and undersurface=green; ⬮ leaf scar shape=D◗
◼︎◼︎ red ash variant green ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica