Project BudBurst has identified 28 deciduous trees and shrubs that are easy to identify and widespread across the continental United States.
Click on the plant names below for a printable Identification Guide and Phenophase Field Guide that include pictures, identifying characteristics, and plant specific phenophase descriptions.
 | American linden (Tilia americana) |  | Antelope bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) |  | Apple (Malus pumila) |  | Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) |  | Balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera (aka trichocarpa)) |  | Beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta) |  | Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) |  | Black elderberry (Sambucus nigra) |  | Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) |  | Boxelder (Acer negundo) |  | Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) |  | Common lilac (Syringa vulgaris) |  | Common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus) |  | Eastern serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis) |  | Flowering dogwood (Cornus florida) |  | Forsythia (Forsythia xintermedia) |  | Lewis' mock orange (Philadelphus lewisii) |  | Pacific dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) |  | Paper birch (Betula papyrifera) |  | Plains cottonwood (Populus deltoides) |  | Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) |  | Red maple (Acer rubrum) |  | Red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea) |  | Rocky mountain maple (Acer glabrum) |  | Shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora floribunda) |  | Tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) |  | Western serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia) |  | Woods' rose (Rosa woodsii) |
