Tree ID help...

[BlueMule]

This is on the edge of the grass in my parents backyard. Easy score if I want it. But I haven't the faintest clue what it is. No leaves either.

 

[gzecc]

I'd guess sassafras but its almost impossible to id most trees from a picture like this..

 

[nrford]

i'd second Sassafras

 

[Ctwoodtick]

My first thought was chestnut oak.

 

[BlueMule]

Here's the top of the tree if it helps.

 

[tigeroak]

Go out with a ax or something and get a chunk of bark or at the base and smell it - close to a root beer smell it is , my guess to is sassafras just by the bark.

 

[BlueMule]

So it smelled kind of like root beer. Damn!

 

[Ctwoodtick]

Sass makes top notch kindling