Fenceline Tree Clearing + Transplanting Project ( + ID help!)

City keeps cutting down some lovely trees along an overgrown fence line. This overgrown fence has tons of lovely volunteer plants--mulberry ect. that I can't stand to see go to waste. I am making a thread here to "journal" clearing the fence line/overgrown parts of the yard and attempting to dig up and save what I can.

I am aware that I probably should have done this when everything was dormant.

Hoping to identify everything I dig up. I do believe I have a few volunteer crabapples/fruiting trees in the mix, judging by the smooth, speckled bark on some of the saplings.

I am watering everything tonight, and will post a picture of all the trees of interest in the morning. The one I am most excited for is a young white/lavender mulberry.

What a great idea, I am keen to see it progress;

John C Daley wrote:What a great idea, I am keen to see it progress;

I'm glad there's some interest! I got online later than I planned to today, but I will be uploading the photos in just a moment. :)

Here are the photos! Hoping I can get some ID help.

Photos # 1 - 5: An abundance of young mulberries.

# 6 - 8: Unidentified fuzzy sapling. Leaves are velvety. Dark is dark, smooth, and speckled. What is this fella?

# 9 - 11: Small unidentified sapling. Smooth, grey bark with light speckles. Bright/yellowy green, round leaves. What's this one?

# 12 and #13: A young oak, maybe?

#14 and #15: Can't begin to guess on this one. It's speckled and has round leaves!

#16 and #17: Unidentified sapling.

#18 and #19: Unidentified, but one branch fell over and broke at the base, then kept growing leaves and shoots anyways. Good for it.

Tried a very cursory id of some of these and came up with the following:
#6 Bitternut hickory Carya cordiformis
#7 Silk tree Albizia julibrissin
#12 Bur oak Quercus macrocarpa
#16 Green ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica
#18 Siberian elm Ulmus pumila

Several of these tend to be in areas with water and a couple aren't as cold tolerant, but without knowing more specifics about the region where they were found, I just did a bit of rough research based on the photos. I hope this gives some kind of jumping off place for better/more detailed identification!

Some of the others I too assume to be mulberries, but I don't know much about how to differentiate  and narrow down mulberries without seeing the fruit.

8 and 6 look like black walnut - crushing a leaf would ID it if you know the smell, it’s pretty distinct.

14 could be an apple or something related.

12 is an oak for sure, but it’s a little hard to tell species before the leaves are fully enlarged.

Mercy Pergande wrote:Tried a very cursory id of some of these and came up with the following:
#6 Bitternut hickory Carya cordiformis
#7 Silk tree Albizia julibrissin
#12 Bur oak Quercus macrocarpa
#16 Green ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica
#18 Siberian elm Ulmus pumila

Several of these tend to be in areas with water and a couple aren't as cold tolerant, but without knowing more specifics about the region where they were found, I just did a bit of rough research based on the photos. I hope this gives some kind of jumping off place for better/more detailed identification!

Some of the others I too assume to be mulberries, but I don't know much about how to differentiate  and narrow down mulberries without seeing the fruit.

Oh, I should have included that information! This is in Southeast Kansas. It's quite dry, the grass has been dead in that area for years.

greg mosser wrote:8 and 6 look like black walnut - crushing a leaf would ID it if you know the smell, it’s pretty distinct.

14 could be an apple or something related.

12 is an oak for sure, but it’s a little hard to tell species before the leaves are fully enlarged.

That's very helpful, thank you! I will definitely do a sniff test on the potential walnut, but looking at pictures of black walnut saplings, I'm inclined to agree with you already.

I am leaning towards a volunteer crabapple for #14 given that there are many of those in the area.

I believe this may be your property. It's traditional. some places or with some. to install a fence 1 foot in from the property line. If you installed or had installed the fence you may know this isn't true. But a sign on either end of the fence may keep them from cutting in the future.