What type of tree are these from?

For about 3 weeks this time of year theses fall from the trees in my yard. From what I can tell it's from leaves sprouting. The issue is they are very sticky and can eat into the clear coat on vehicles. Anyone see these before?

Can't really help as to what tree, but maybe download an app called plantnet, you can take a picture of leaves, bark, flowers, fruit etc of a plant and it cross-references with it's database and gives you a fairly good idea of what plant you're looking at.

I've used it a bunch on our new property because I'm not much of a botanist and it been great at most things. 

How big are they?  1" or so?

Looks like winterberry to me, but they are typically fall-deciduous.  usually they are bare (of leaves) in the winter with bright red berries.

Wait... are those flat leaves, or curled up?

About 1/2 inch long, flat but they curl up when sitting. I'll get better photos tomorrow 

Can you post the trees themselves, especially the branches with the flowering part?

It would also help to know what area of the country you're in.

Looks like one of the poplar species to me, but as Mr. Asa says, knowing where you are would be a big help.

Caraganas  makes sticky irritating seed pods like that.

I'll grab some tomorrow. I'm in Maryland. 

We had some big old cottonwoods at home that would make sticky little bastards like that, but I remember them being a darker brown.

Here is one on the hood of the car, and from what I can tell theyre coming from this tree, no low branches so I can't really get a close up

I recognize those evil little bastards, my parents used to have a tree right next to the driveway that loved to drop them right where I'd park when I was still living there. They're hell on clearcoat, but luckily none of my cars were nice enough for me to give much of a crap. Leaves looked just like that too, and I'm pretty sure Turboeric is right, it was a poplar of some sort. 

In reply to Furious_E (Forum Supporter) :

Thanks for at least confirming I'm not crazy.

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In reply to dculberson (Forum Supporter) :

That's them. I appreciate it, now I have to try and figure out what to do about it.

In reply to Steve_Jones :

Not sure I'm the best baseline, but you're welcome. Solution? Cut the SOB down. 

Poplars (aka cottonwood) aren't easy to kill. They're extremely fast growing (so popular as quickie shade trees) and if you cut then gown, they'll resprout very quickly.  In fact, that's how they're propagated. Cut one down, wait for it to sprout, cut the shoots off and poke them into the ground - instant new poplar. Fun fact - most toilet paper is made from poplar, so if the quarantine goes on very long, you can think of your poplar as a DIY toilet paper supply! Very grassroots. Or maybe poplar roots...

We had a variety in our yard when I was growing up called a Tulip Poplar. This is in central Georgia, BTW. The bloom thingies on it were huge, like 6+" across and were sticky as all hell. Had a unique odor about it too, kind of sickly sweet. It was also a much bigger tree than those, like tall and straight. All summer it rained a mist of sticky sap on anything under it. My dad hated that thing.

I never knew cottonwoods were the same thing as a poplar. 

EDIT: Wiki link on the Tulip tree (AKA Tulip Poplar among other things.) One of the tallest native trees in the US, reaching almost 200'!

Yep. Balsam poplar. 

Margie

Furious_E (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to Steve_Jones :

Not sure I'm the best baseline, but you're welcome. Solution? Cut the SOB down. 

There are 30 of them, and they're 150ish feet or I would.  If I build a garage to cover the cars, I'll do it out of poplar just for spite

Oh man if you have a Honda or Subaru with their crappy 1 stage clear coat and live near any kind of poplar tree in the spring you'd better hope you have a garage to park it in. I had a cottonwood absolutely destroy the roof of a Forester one spring. 

I love poplar trees and especially tulip poplars. They're very pretty and vigorous trees. Maybe a sun sail type shade across the driveway to park under? They're very cheap and only require a post near each corner to hold them up.