Here is a guide to trees in and around Missouri. If you find any inaccuracies or mistakes, please tell me.

Black Walnut: Juglans nigra

The tree is 70-150 feet tall with a diameter of 2-4 feet. The leaves are compound. The tree makes walnuts. Leaves are alternate and contain more than 11 leaflets.

Eastern Wahoo: Euonymus atropurpureus

Grows up to 25 feet tall. It has thin grey bark that is slightly rough. The simple leaves are opposite. The top of the leaf is dark green and hairless but the lower surface is pale green and has fine hairs. Leaves are yellow or red in the fall. Purple flowers with seed pods on the stem.

American Sycamore: Platanus occidentalis

The American Sycamore can reach 98 feet tall and be 13 feet in diameter. Has rigid bark. Often divided near ground into secondary trunks. The leaves are alternate and simple and turn brown in the fall.

Sweetgum: Liquidambar styraciflua

Large tree that reaches 80 to 150 feet in height. The leaves are simple and alternate and are star-shaped. They are two-celled capsules that become the spiny balls. Bark is gray and deeply furrowed.

Sassafras: Sassafras albidum

Leaves look like gloves, look like three lobes, or are oval shaped. The tree grows from 35 to 50 feet tall. The leaves are simple and alternate.

Redbud: Cercis Canadensis

Has pods containing seeds. The tree has heart shaped leaves, which are dark green in summer and turn yellow in autumn. The bark is red-brown and ofter has heavy flaking of bark. Has pink flowers. Simple leaves and alternate leaves.

Persimmon: Diospyros virginiana

The leaf is leathery and dark green without teeth on the margin. The tree has delicious orange fruit. Simple alternate leaves.

Pawpaw: Asimina triloba

The tree has simple alternate leaves. It has fruit shaped like a stubby banana that is first green then turns purple. The edges of the leaves are smooth and green above and pale beneath. In the winter, it has a velvet brown bud.

Osage-Orange: Maclura pomifera

The fruit is a lot like an orange. The leaves are bright, shiny, and oval shaped. They are smooth and leathery to the touch. The fruit is yellowish-green and round. The leaves are simple and alternate.

White oak: Quercus alba

Gigantic. The leaf is alternate and simple with 7 to 9 rounded lobes reaching nearly to the center. It is bright green about and pale below and is a dark red or purple in the fall. Acorns that are ¾ an inch long.

Red Oak: Quercus coccinea

There are faint concentric rings around the tip of the acorn. The scales on the cup are tight and somewhat shiny. The leaves are alternate and simple with seven or nine bristle tipped lobes. The leaves are hairy at first and later become smooth and dark green above, and pale on the bottom.

Bur Oak: Quercus macrocarpa

The leaf is six the ten inches long, alternate, simple, and spatula shaped with its broadest width near the end. Mossy cup of the acorn. The tree has Corky, thick twigs. The buds are egg-shaped.

Red Mulberry: Morus rubra

The leaf may or may not be lobed. It is heart shaped and coarsely toothed on the edges. The fruit looks like a blackberry. It turns from green to red to blue-black. Leaves are simple and alternate.

Sugar Maple: Acer saccharum

The leaf is opposite, simple, and palmately veined. The flower is light yellow-green and clusters. The fruit is two horseshoe-shaped helicopters.

Silver Maple: Acer saccharinum

Grows rapidly and has ascending interlacing branches. The leaves have a silvery underside. The leaves are deeply lobed and have a V-shaped base. Has reddish, glossy twigs. Clustered round blossom buds. Large winged seeds occur in pairs. The leaves are simple and opposite.

Red Maple: Acer rubrum

The leaves are simple and opposite and have 3-5 palmate lobes with a serrated margin. The leaf is light green and the underside is whitish. They turn brilliant red in autumn. The twigs are reddish in color. The flowers are red. The seeds are the helicopters that diverge at an angle of 50-60 degrees. The seeds are light brown to reddish.

Black Locust: Robinia pseudoacacia

The fruit is a flat pod with seeds. The leaf is compound with 7-19 leaflets which are alternate, light green above and pale green underneath. Locust flowers have clusters of honey-sweet white blossoms. It has small thorns and the bark resembles black, twisted rope.

Hornbeam: Carpinus caroliniana

The leaves are simple and alternate with a serrated margin. The fruit of the tree is a small nut inside a leafy wing shaped thing. Flowers are long and yellow.

Honey locust: Gleditsia triacanthos

The leaves are pinnately compound and the leaflets are bright green. The fruit is a flat pod that contains seeds. The honey locusts commonly have thorns 10-20 cm long growing out of the branches.

Shagbark hickory: Carya ovate

The shagbark has loose, scaly bark which separates into plates. The nut is 1 to 2 inches in diameter. The nut is globe shaped. The leaves are compound and alternate with 5 leaflets. The leaves are toothed on the edges.