Tennessee Hardwood Trees

The bark is very rough but thin less than thick.

Tennessee hardwood trees.

Many native trees are already used in tennessee home landscapes. Welcome to the university of tennessee arboretum tree identification guide. Hickory genus carya. Most important being streamside buffers and wildlife habitat.

While some areas contained natural barrens or grass lands the land that was forested showed an amazing variety of trees and bushes. Many more exist that are seldom used. Hackberry genus celtis. Elm genus ulmus.

Some river and creek bottoms were choked with canebrakes. Tree families in tennessee are. Trees likely to be found growing on well drained land ash beech black cherry black oak black walnut blackgum. Beech genus fagus.

Black walnut butternut genus juglans. Red oak southern red oak southern red oak is one of tennessee s most common trees. For this guide we have chosen some of the trees commonly found on the trails at the arboretum. It usually has a round well pruned trunk with a slight swell at the base and good form up to strong well spaced limbs at the top.

Softwoods are gymnosperms meaning they do not have flowers and use cones for seed reproduction. Check the following guides to find the trees most likely to be encountered on any given site in tennessee. Black cherry genus prunus. A to z list by scientific name pine pincaceae pine pinus spruce picea larches tamaracks larix hemlocks tsuga douglas firs and true firs pseudotsuga and abies.

Softwood trees are conifers evergreens have needles or scale like foliage and are not deciduous. It s the natural conditions of middle tennessee that grow these hardwoods to set the standards for strength and beauty. The value to landowners of these pine plantings 11 000 acres when mature is conservatively estimated to be over 22 million in current dollars. Much of middle tennessee was covered with a great virgin hardwood forest when it was first settled.

Common north american hardwood list. Most of the hardwood plantings 3 400 acres will be tailored to provide environmental benefits. Birch genus betula. Oaks maples birches and fruit trees are examples of hardwood trees.

If you would like to know the common name scientific name or characteristics of a tree at the arboretum but you only know the shape of the leaf perhaps this guide will. Ash genus fraxinus. Basswood genus tilia. Cottonwood genus populus.

Trees that require close examination s. Trees are most likely to be encountered in different parts of tennessee and on given sites can help speed up proper identification.