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 Longleaf Pine Loblolly Pine

Pinus taeda, commonly known as loblolly pine. is one of

several pines native to the Southeastern United States, from
central Texas east to Florida, and north to Delaware and
Pinus palustris, commonly known as the Longleaf Pine, is a Southern New Jersey. The wood industry classifies the species
pine native to the southeastern United States, found along as a southern yellow pine. U.S. Forest Service surveys found
the coastal plain from eastern Texas to southeast Virginia, that loblolly pine is the second most common species of tree
extending into northern and central Florida. in the United States, after red maple.
 Shortleaf Pine Eastern White Pine

Pinus strobus, commonly known as the eastern white

Pinus echinata (Shortleaf Pine) is a species of pine native to pine, white pine, northern white pine, Weymouth pine,
the eastern United States from southern New York south to and soft pine is a large pine native to eastern North America.
northern Florida, west to the extreme southeast of Kansas, It occurs from Newfoundland west through the Great Lakes
and southwest to eastern Texas. The tree is variable in form, region to southeastern Manitoba and Minnesota, and south
sometimes straight, sometimes crooked, with an irregular along the Mississippi Basin and Appalachian Mountains to
crown. This tree reaches heights of 20–30 metres (66–98 ft) northernmost Georgia and Mississippi.
with a trunk diameter of 0.5–0.9 metre (1 ft 8 in–2 ft 10 in).
 Virginia Pine Table Mountain Pine

Pinus virginiana (Virginia pine, scrub pine, Jersey pine) is a

medium-sized tree, often found on poorer soils from Long
Island in southern New York south through the Appalachian
Mountains to western Tennessee and Alabama. The usual size
range for this pine is 9–18 m, but can grow taller under Table mountain pine, Pinus pungens, also called hickory
optimum conditions. The trunk can be as large as 0.5 m pine, prickly pine, or mountain pine, is a small pine native to
diameter. the Appalachian Mountains in the United States.
 Pitch Pine Red Spruce

Pinus rigida, pitch pine, is a small-to-medium sized (6–30 m

(20–98 ft)) pine, native to eastern North America. This species
occasionally hybridizes with other pine species such as Picea rubens (red spruce) is a species of spruce native to
loblolly pine (Pinus taeda), shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata), eastern North America, ranging from eastern Quebec to Nova
and pond pine (Pinus serotina); the last is treated as a Scotia, and from New England south in the Adirondack
subspecies of pitch pine by some botanists. Mountains and Appalachians to western North Carolina.
 Bigtooth Aspen Bitternut Hickory

Carya cordiformis, the Bitternut Hickory, also called bitternut

or swamp hickory, is a large pecan hickory with commercial
stands located mostly north of the other pecan hickories.
Populus grandidentata, commonly called large-tooth, big- Bitternut hickory is cut and sold in mixture with the true
tooth, American aspen,white poplar, or several other names, hickories. It is the shortest lived of the hickories, living to
is a deciduous tree native to eastern North America. about 200 years.
Mockernut Hickory Sweet Birch

Carya tomentosa, (Mockernut hickory, mockernut, white

hickory, whiteheart hickory, hognut, bullnut) is a tree in the
Juglandaceae or Walnut family. The most abundant of the
hickories, common in the eastern half of the US, it is long
lived, sometimes reaching the age of 500 years. A straight- Betula lenta (sweet birch, also known as black birch, cherry
growing hickory, a high percentage of its wood is used for birch, mahogany birch, or spice birch) is a species of birch
products where strength, hardness, and flexibility are native to eastern North America, from southern Maine west
needed. The wood makes an excellent fuelwood, as well. to southernmost Ontario, and south in the Appalachian
Mountains to northern Georgia.
 Yellow Birch River Birch

Betula nigra (black birch, river birch, water birch) is a species

Betula alleghaniensis (Yellow Birch), is a species of birch of birch native to the Eastern United States from New
native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland to Nova Hampshire west to southern Minnesota, and south to
Scotia, New Brunswick, southern Quebec and Ontario, and northern Florida and west to Texas. It is one of the few heat-
the southeast corner of Manitoba in Canada, west to tolerant birches in a family of mostly cold-weather trees
Minnesota, and south in the Appalachian Mountains to which do not thrive in USDA Zone 6 and up. B.
northern Georgia. nigra commonly occurs in flood plains and/or swamps.
 Chestnut Oak Northern Red Oak

Quercus prinus (syn. Quercus montana), the chestnut oak, is

a species of oak in the white oak Quercus rubra, commonly called northern red
group, Quercus sect. Quercus. It is native to the eastern oak or champion oak, (syn. Quercus borealis), is an oak in the
United States, where it is one of the most important ridgetop red oak group (Quercus section Lobatae). It is a native of
trees from southern Maine southwest to central Mississippi, North America, in the northeastern United States and
with an outlying northwestern population in southern southeast Canada. It grows from the north end of the Great
Michigan. It is also sometimes called "rock oak" because of Lakes, east to Nova Scotia, south as far as Georgia and states
montane and other rocky habitats. with good soil that is slightly acidic.
 Post Oak White Oak

Quercus stellata (Post oak) is an oak in the white oak section.

It is a small tree, typically 10–15 m tall and 30–60 cm trunk Quercus alba, the white oak, is one of the pre-eminent
diameter, though occasional specimens reach 30 m tall and hardwoods of eastern North America. It is a long-lived oak of
140 cm diameter. It is native to the eastern United States, the family Fagaceae, native to eastern North America and
from Connecticut in the northeast, west to southern Iowa, found from southern Quebec west to eastern Minnesota and
southwest to central Texas, and southeast to northern south to northern Florida and eastern Texas. Specimens have
Florida. been documented to be over 450 years old.
 Water Oak Water Tupelo

Quercus nigra, the water oak, is an oak in the red oak group
(Quercus sect. Lobatae), native to the southeastern United
States, from southern Delaware and south to the coastal
areas of Maryland, Virginia, the piedmont of North Carolina, Nyssa aquatica, commonly called the water tupelo,
all of South Carolina, most of Georgia (with the exception of cottongum, wild olive, large tupelo, sourgum, tupelo-gum,
the Appalachian Mountains), all of Alabama, Mississippi, or water-gum, is a large, long-lived tree in the tupelo
central Florida, and westward to Louisiana and eastern Texas. genus (Nyssa) that grows in swamps and floodplains in the
Southeastern United States.
 American Sycamore White Ash

Fraxinus americana (white ash or American ash) is a species

Platanus occidentalis, also known as American of ash tree native to eastern and central North America. It is
sycamore, American planetree, occidental plane, found in mesophytic hardwood forests from Nova Scotia west
and buttonwood, is one of the species of Platanus native to to Minnesota, south to northern Florida, and southwest to
North America. It is usually called sycamore in North America, eastern Texas. Isolated populations have also been found in
a name which can refer to other types of tree in other parts western Texas, Wyoming and Colorado, and the species is
of the world. reportedly naturalized in Hawaii.