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scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
Abies balsamea | Balsam Fir Blister Pine Northern Balsam | |
Acer negundo | Box Elder Box Elder Maple Ash-leaved Maple Ashleaf Maple Red River Maple Fresno De Guajuco | |
Acer nigrum | Black Maple | |
Acer pensylvanicum | Striped Maple Moosewood | |
Acer rubrum | Red Maple Scarlet Maple Soft Maple | |
Acer rubrum var. rubrum | Red Maple | |
Acer rubrum var. trilobum | Trident Maple Trident Red Maple | |
Acer saccharinum | Silver Maple Soft Maple White Maple | |
Acer saccharum | Sugar Maple Northern Sugar Maple | |
Acer saccharum var. saccharum | Sugar Maple | |
Acer spicatum | Mountain Maple | |
Aesculus flava | Yellow Buckeye Sweet Buckeye | |
Aesculus glabra | Ohio Buckeye Texas Buckeye Fetid Buckeye Horse Chestnut | |
Alnus incana | Gray Alder Speckled Alder | |
Alnus incana ssp. rugosa | Speckled Alder | |
Amelanchier arborea var. arborea | Common Serviceberry Shadbush Junebush | |
Amelanchier interior | Pacific Serviceberry | |
Amelanchier laevis | Allegheny Serviceberry Allegheny Service-berry Serviceberry | |
Aralia spinosa | Devil's Walking Stick Hercules Club Angelica Tree Pigeon Tree Shotbush Prickly Elder Prickly Ash | |
Asimina triloba | Pawpaw Common Pawpaw Custard Apple Indian Banana Wild Banana | |
Betula alleghaniensis | Yellow Birch | |
Betula alleghaniensis var. alleghaniensis | Yellow Birch | |
Betula alleghaniensis var. macrolepis | Yellow Birch | |
Betula lenta | Sweet Birch Cherry Birch Black Birch Mahogany Birch | |
Betula nigra | River Birch Red Birch Black Birch Water Birch | |
Betula papyrifera | Paper Birch Canoe Birch White Birch | |
Betula populifolia | Gray Birch White Birch Aspen-leaved Birch | |
Carpinus caroliniana | American Hornbeam Blue Beech Water Beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
Carya cordiformis | Bitternut Hickory Swamp Hickory Bitternut Pig Hickory Pignut Hickory Pignut White Hickory Red Hickory Bitter Walnut Bitter Pecan | |
Castanea dentata | American Chestnut | |
Carya illinoinensis | Pecan | |
Carya laciniosa | Shellbark Hickory | |
Carya ovata | Shagbark Hickory Carolina Hickory Scalybark Hickory Upland Hickory Shellbark Hickory | |
Catalpa speciosa | Northern Catalpa Catalpa Tree Cigar Tree Indian Bean | |
Carya tomentosa | Mockernut Hickory Mockernut Hickory Big Bud Hickory Mockernut White Hickory Whiteheart Hickory Fragrant Hickory Bigbud Hickory Hardbark Hickory Hognut Bullnut | |
Cercis canadensis | Eastern Redbud Redbud | |
Celtis occidentalis | Common Hackberry Northern Hackberry American Hackberry Nettle Tree Beaverwood False Elm | |
Chionanthus virginicus | White Fringetree Fringe Tree Snowflower Tree Flowering Ash Old Man's Beard Grandfather Graybeard Grancy Graybeard | |
Cornus drummondii | Roughleaf Dogwood Drummond's Dogwood Rough-leaf Dogwood | |
Cornus florida | Flowering Dogwood Virginia Dogwood Florida Dogwood White Cornel Arrowwood American Boxwood False Box St. Peter's Crown Corona De San Pedro | |
Cornus rugosa | Roundleaf Dogwood | |
Crataegus brainerdii | Brainerd's Hawthorn | |
Crataegus chrysocarpa | Fireberry Hawthorn | |
Crataegus crus-galli | Cockspur Hawthorn Cockspur Thorn Newcastle Hawthorn Newcastle Thorn Hog Apple | |
Crataegus flabellata | Fanleaf Hawthorn | |
Crataegus holmesiana | Holmes' Hawthorn | |
Crataegus intricata | Copenhagen Hawthorn Thicket Hawthorn White Hawthorn White Thorn Scarlet Hawthorn Scarlet Haw Scarlet-fruited Hawthorn Scarlet-fruited Haw | |
Crataegus macrosperma | Bigfruit Hawthorn Large-seeded Hawthorn | |
Crataegus mollis | Downy Hawthorn White Thorn Whitethorn Scarlet Hawthorn Scarlet Haw Red Haw Downy Thorn | |
Crataegus pruinosa | Waxyfruit Hawthorn | |
Crataegus punctata | Dotted Hawthorn White Thorn Dotted Haw | |
Crataegus scabrida | Rough Hawthorn | |
Crataegus submollis | Quebec Hawthorn | |
Crataegus suborbiculata | Caughuawaga Hawthorn | |
Crataegus succulenta | Fleshy Hawthorn | |
Fagus grandifolia | American Beech White Beech Red Beech Ridge Beech Beechnut Tree | |
Fraxinus americana | White Ash American Ash Cane Ash Smallseed White Ash Biltmore White Ash Biltmore Ash | |
Frangula caroliniana | Carolina Buckthorn Carolina False Buckthorn Yellow Buckthorn Indian Cherry Yellowwood | |
Fraxinus nigra | Black Ash | |
Fraxinus pennsylvanica | Green Ash Red Ash Swamp Ash River Ash Water Ash Darlington Ash | |
Fraxinus profunda | Pumpkin Ash | |
Fraxinus quadrangulata | Blue Ash | |
Gleditsia triacanthos | Honey Locust Common Honey Locust Thorny Common Honey Locust Honey Shucks Locust Sweet Locust Thorny Locust Honey Shucks Sweet Bean Tree | |
Gymnocladus dioicus | Kentucky Coffeetree Stump Tree | |
Hamamelis virginiana | Witch-hazel American Witch-hazel Common Witch-hazel Winterbloom Snapping Hazelnut Striped Alder Spotted Alder Tobacco-wood Water-witch | |
Ilex mucronata | Catberry | |
Ilex verticillata | Common Winterberry Winterberry Michigan Holly Black Alder | |
Juglans cinerea | Butternut White Walnut | |
Juglans nigra | Black Walnut Eastern Black Walnut American Black Walnut | |
Larix laricina | Tamarack American Larch Hacmatack Black Larch | |
Liquidambar styraciflua | Sweetgum American Sweetgum Red Gum White Gum Star-leaved Gum Starleaf Gum Alligator Tree Satin Walnut Bilsted Liquidambar | |
Liriodendron tulipifera | Tulip Tree Tulip Poplar Yellow Poplar | |
Magnolia acuminata | Cucumbertree Cucumber Tree Mountain Magnolia | |
Malus angustifolia | Southern Crabapple Narrowleaf Crabapple Wild Crabapple Southern Crab Narrowleaf Crab Wild Crab | |
Malus coronaria | Sweet Crabapple American Crab | |
Malus ioensis | Prairie Crabapple Iowa Crabapple Western Crabapple Prairie Crab Iowa Crab Western Crab | |
Magnolia tripetala | Umbrella Tree Umbrella Magnolia | |
Morus rubra | Red Mulberry Moral | |
Nyssa sylvatica | Tupelo Blackgum Black Tupelo Sourgum Pepperidge Tupelo Gum Beetlebung | |
Ostrya virginiana | Eastern Hop-hornbeam American Hop-hornbeam Woolly Hop-hornbean Eastern Ironwood Roughbark Ironwood Ironwood Deerwood Leverwood | |
Pinus strobus | Eastern White Pine Weymouth Pine | |
Pinus virginiana | Virginia Pine Jersey Pine Scrub Pine | |
Platanus occidentalis | American Sycamore Eastern Sycamore American Plane Tree Plane Tree Buttonwood Buttonball Tree | |
Populus balsamifera | Balsam Poplar Balsam Tacmahac Hackmatack Tacamahaca Bam Tree | |
Populus balsamifera ssp. balsamifera | Balsam Poplar | |
Populus deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
Populus deltoides ssp. deltoides | Eastern Cottonwood Southern Cottonwood Carolina Poplar Eastern Poplar Necklace Poplar Alamo | |
Populus grandidentata | Bigtooth Aspen Big-tooth Aspen Long-toothed Aspen | |
Populus heterophylla | Swamp Cottonwood Swamp Poplar Black Cottonwood Downy Poplar | |
Populus tremuloides | Quaking Aspen Golden Aspen Trembling Aspen Mountain Aspen Aspen Trembling Poplar Alamo Blanco | |
Prunus americana | American Plum Wild Plum | |
Prunus mexicana | Mexican Plum Bigtree Plum Inch Plum | |
Prunus nigra | Canadian Plum Canada Plum Red Plum Black Plum | |
Prunus pensylvanica var. pensylvanica | Pin Cherry | |
Prunus serotina | Black Cherry Wild Black Cherry Rum Cherry | |
Prunus serotina var. serotina | Eastern Black Cherry Black Cherry | |
Prunus virginiana | Chokecherry Common Chokecherry Choke Cherry | |
Prunus virginiana var. virginiana | Chokecherry | |
Ptelea trifoliata | Wafer Ash Common Hoptree Hop Tree | |
Quercus alba | White Oak Northern White Oak Eastern White Oak Stave Oak Ridge White Oak Forked-leaf White Oak | |
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