What Colors Are Certain Leaves In the Fall ?
Black walnut and butternut	Drop leaves before they turn color
Locust	Stays green until leaves drop
Ash	Plum purple
Red maple, dogwood, sassafras, and scarlet oak	Dark red
Sugar maple and sumac	Flame red and orange
Oak, beech, larch, elm, hickory, and sycamore	Tan or brown
Poplar, birch, tulip tree, willow	Yellow
See our leaf scrapbook for real life examples.