Small Tree ID - pinnately compound?

[shin]

Now that I have happily moved into my new home and begun renovations I am trying to ID the trees that are here on the property already.

Here are three photos, I can take more if necessary. I hope someone can ID this. I've tried some tree ID websites and the IDs they gave differed and when I looked at other photos of the species it didn't look quite right.

[shin]

I am having trouble getting the photos post. I will try links to the photos instead.

[shin]

No this won't work either, it is strange as if the board is editing out the photos/links. I will have to ask for help I think.

[shin]

Whew that was tough. I had to edit out the spaces in the photo names, for some reason that confused the board when it posted and it edited them out. 'tree id 1.jpg' would not work but 'treeid1.jpg' worked.

Ho ho ho hopefully it will be easier to ID the tree than it was to post the photos!

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Well ..... I don't know where you're located but here in the PNW with any indigenous tree that had leaves like that  there would only be three choices -  with leaves the size of yours it would be either a sumac (Rhus  (rhus also includes sweetgum)) or an elderberry (Sambucus) tree, and if the leaves were very small it would be a mountain ash.  Looking at the close up picture you took of the leaves, it looks like the edges of the leaves are serrated so my guess would be that it's one of the elderberry varieties (Sambucus).  Maybe somebody closer to your location will know if there are other species of trees besides those that have similar leaves.

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[shin]

Hmm, I do have some staghorn sumac in back, and this doesn't quite fit it. . but it is pretty similar in the leaves, very close, that's quite true! The leaves serration is just a bit different, it's the rest of the tree that doesn't fit -- and the lack of staghorns.

[Skandi]

It looks like an Ash tree to me. But I do not know if you have them. bark it about right, leaves could be a walnut as well, but I'm not sure if the bark matches that. Though with is being so close to that wall it's probably a firewood tree.

[ksfarmer]

My guess is that it is a sumac of some variety. The leaves, bark, and clumping lead me to think this, but, I don't know which variety.

[shin]

I do have some staghorn sumac on the property, and the leaves are very close in resemblance, I agree, but there are no staghorns on these and the trunks are different on this one -- you don't find them this thick and together like that, the staghorns are thin things.

I wish I knew if a round green nut-like fruit on the ground by it was from it or another tree near it. I tried to identify it too late to tell if it ever had any on it or not.

I'm going to keep a sharp eye on it as the season changes to see if there are any helpfully distinguishing changes to the tree.

[comfortablynumb]

Around here we call those pig nut trees.
I have no idea what they really are but the nuts you found are probably from those.

[chickenista]

I think it's Tree of Heaven.
Not a bad tree except that it spreads like wildfire.
They send out root shoots and pop up everywhere!
That building behind it?
Yeah.
You will find TOH shoots coming up in it and the foundation will heave.
We have the darn things inside out barn.
Hard to eradicate though without Roundup.
Cut it down and immediately spray the stump and kill each new sprout rising from the stump.

[shin]

I think you're right about it being Tree of Heaven. The bark fits the description of 'The bark is smooth and light grey, often becoming somewhat rougher with light tan fissures as the tree ages.' I found for it. And it being the type that poisons other plants from growing near it would explain a few issues I have had with things planted near it. . .

I am going to look more closely and confirm, but I think you're right.