Key to the Trees of Wisconsin

100. Bark of trunks and older branches gray, smooth and not separating into furrows or papery sheets; trunks usually irregularly blunt ridged; buds brown, 4-angled.


Carpinus caroliniana
100. Bark of trunks and older branches white, yellow or gray, becoming
conspicuously furrowed or separating into thin papery sheets; trunks lacking irregular blunt ridges; buds round in cross section, the scales brownish at the tip, but often at least faintly greenish at the base.

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