Plants from the Cincinnati Nature Center

We went hiking through the Cincinnati Nature Center today and found several plants that we could not identify. Please help!
1 & 2) A very tall tree with shaggy bark. There were several of these trees around, but they were so tall I could not get a good photo of the leaves. The bark itself reminded me of a pine tree from my youth, but this was no pine tree as the leaves are pinnate and deciduous (ignore the maple leaves in photo 2).
3 & 4) I can remember these vines from my youth. I have never seen the leaves on these vines as they are so tall. They are all over Ohio in the dense woods.
5) This short tree had hard red berries. It was the only one like it we saw in our five mile hike.
6) We tried to figure out what this Aster-like short flowering plant is, no luck.

thanks,
Jon

 

Last one might be calico aster, Symphyotrichum lateriflorum

 

Vine is probably a grape.

 

The first two look like different trees. The second one resembles a river birch, Betula nigra. This time of year you should be able to find leaves on the ground.

 

#5 Might be Euonymus americanus.

HTH
Chris

 

5.Is definitely Euonymus.However pretty sure it is not E.americanus,as this has extremely warty fruit capsules,stems also 4 angled.Hope this helps.

 

A guess for the first tree is white oak, Quercus alba

 

Actually I should have mentioned that the vine is about as thick as my wrist. I could not get close to this particular one because of a poison ivy patch, so this picture was taken from about 5 feet away.

 

Actually they are the same exact tree. There were thousands of leaves all over the place from many different species of trees, but to me these leaves looked like they were still green, so they had not yet started to fall. These leaves are at least 150 feet up, I zoomed in 12x and can only tell they are pinnate. Every time I came across one of these trees it was the same, rough bark, extremely tall, green leaves. Apparently the bark becomes rougher as the tree ages since none of the younger trees have bark anything like this.

 

Thanks, that might explain why there were white, lavender and dark purple varieties scattered around - they may all be the same species!

 

Are the tree leaves simple or compound pinnate?

 

Take a look at this grape vine. LINK

 

The bark looks similar, but the leaves of this tree are simple, unlike those of an oak.

 

Yes, you are both right, it is Euonymus. What are the key features to look for in this genus?

 

Wow. I had no idea. This would make sense since I do see wild grapes growing all over the place. I was trying to focus my camera way up into the trees to get a photo of the leaves, but there were just way too many trees and leaves and too much dappled light coming through to get a good shot.

thanks!

 

Is it possible photos 1&2 are of a Prunus serotina (black cherry)? I did not think it was possible for these trees to get this tall, but the leaves and bark seem to match.

 

Oak leaves are tremendously variable, not all classically lobed.