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Acer Rubrum

Height: 90 - 120 ft
Lifespan: 150 years
Trunk Diameter: 18 - 35 in

Acer rubrum, the red maple, also known as swamp maple, water maple or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America. The U.S. Forest service recognizes it as the most abundant native tree in eastern North America

Acer Saccharum

Height: 80 - 115 ft
Lifespan: 200 years
Trunk Diameter: 3 ft

Acer saccharum, the sugar maple, is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. It is native to the hardwood forests of eastern Canada and eastern United States. Sugar maple is best known for being the primary source of maple syrup and for its brightly colored fall foliage.

Carpinus Caroliniana

Height: 35 - 50 ft
Lifespan: 100 years
Trunk Diameter: 16 - 32 in

Carpinus caroliniana, the American hornbeam, is a small hardwood tree in the genus Carpinus. American hornbeam is also known as blue-beech, ironwood, musclewood and muscle beech. It is native to eastern North America, from Minnesota and southern Ontario east to Maine.

Carya Glabra

Height: 50 - 80 ft
Lifespan: 200 years
Trunk Diameter: 9 - 18 in

Carya glabra, the pignut hickory, is a common, but not abundant species of hickory in the oak-hickory forest association in the Eastern United States and Canada. Other common names are pignut, sweet pignut, coast pignut hickory, smoothbark hickory, swamp hickory, and broom hickory.

Carya Ovata

Height: 60 - 120 ft
Lifespan: 300 years
Trunk Diameter: 12 - 24 in

Carya ovata, the shagbark hickory, is a common hickory in the Eastern United States and southeast Canada. It is a large, deciduous tree, sometimes growing well over 100 ft tall, and lives up to 300 years. The tallest measured shagbark, located in Savage Gulf, Tennessee, is over 150 ft tall.

Crataegus Crus-galli

Height: 20 - 35 ft
Lifespan: 20 years
Trunk Diameter: 6 - 9 in

Crataegus crus-galli is a species of hawthorn known by the common names cockspur hawthorn and cockspur thorn. It is native to eastern North America from Ontario to Texas to Florida, and it is widely used in horticulture. It is thought to be the parent of the tetraploid species Crataegus persimilis.

Fraxinus Americana

Height: 50 - 80 ft
Lifespan: 300 years
Trunk Diameter: 18 - 24 in

Fraxinus americana, the white ash or American ash, is a species of ash tree native to eastern and central North America. The species is native to mesophytic hardwood forests from Nova Scotia west to Minnesota, south to northern Florida, and southwest to eastern Texas.

Fraxinus Pennsylvanica

Height: 39 - 82 feet
Lifespan: 120 years
Trunk Diameter: 18 to 24 in

Fraxinus pennsylvanica, the green ash or red ash, is a species of ash native to eastern and central North America, from Nova Scotia west to southeastern Alberta and eastern Colorado, south to northern Florida, and southwest to Oklahoma and eastern Texas.

Gleditsia Triacanthos

Height: 65 - 100 ft
Lifespan: 120 years
Trunk Diameter: 50 - 90 cm

The honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) or thorny honeylocust, is a deciduous tree in the family Fabaceae, native to central North America where it is mostly found in the moist soil of river valleys. Honey locust is highly adaptable to different environments and is an aggressive, invasive species.

Juniperus Virginiana

Height: 16 to 66 ft
Lifespan: 300 years
Trunk Diameter: 12 to 39 in

Juniperus virginiana, also known as red cedar, is a species of juniper native to eastern North America from southeastern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and east of the Great Plains. Further west it is replaced by the related Juniperus scopulorum and to the southwest by Juniperus ashei.

Liquidambar Styraciflua

Height: 50 to 150 ft
Lifespan: 400 years
Trunk Diameter: 2 to 3 ft

This plant's genus name Liquidambar was first given by Linnaeus in 1753 from the Latin liquidus ('fluid') and the Arabic ambar ('amber'), in allusion to the fragrant terebinthine juice or gum which exudes from the tree. Its specific epithet styraciflua is an old generic name meaning 'flowing with storax' (a plant resin)

Nyssa Sylvatica

Height: 30 to 50 ft
Lifespan: 650 years
Trunk Diameter: 20 to 39 in

Nyssa sylvatica's genus name, Nyssa, refers to a Greek water nymph; the species epithet sylvatica refers to its woodland habitat. This tree is more commonly called the black gum or the sour gum, although no part of the plant is particularly gummy. Another common name used occasionally in the Northeast is pepperidge.

Ostrya Virginiana

Height: 59 ft
Lifespan: 150 years
Trunk Diameter: 8 to 20 in

Ostrya virginiana, the American hophornbeam, is a species of Ostrya native to eastern North America. On mature trees, the bark of the trunk is rough-textured and greyish brown, dividing into narrow rectangular strips; this provides the trunk with a slightly shaggy appearance. The bark of smaller branches is more smooth and gray with small lenticels.

Prunus Virginiana

Height: 20 to 30 ft
Lifespan: 20 to 40 years

A large, deciduous shrub or small understory tree. Dense clusters of white flowers are followed by red fruit ripening to dark purple from August to September (north) or June to August (south). Shrub or small tree, often forming dense thickets, with dark red or blackish chokecherries.

Quercus Alba

Height: 80 to 100 ft
Lifespan: 450 years
Trunk Diameter: 16 to 25 ft

Quercus alba, the white oak, is one of the prominent hardwoods of eastern and central North America. It is a long-lived oak, native to eastern and central North America and found from Minnesota, Ontario, Quebec, and southern Maine south and as far as northern Florida and eastern Texas.

Quercus Bicolor

Height: 60 to 80 feet
Lifespan: 285 years
Trunk Diameter: 2.5 to 3 feet

Quercus bicolor, the swamp white oak, is a North American species of medium-sized trees in the beech family. It is a common element of America's north central and northeastern mixed forests. It can survive in a variety of habitats. It forms hybrids with bur oak where they occur together in the wild.

Quercus Palustris

Height: 50 to 70 ft
Lifespan: 120 years
Trunk Diameter: 3 to 3.5 ft

Quercus palustris, the pin oak or swamp Spanish oak, is a tree in the red oak section of the genus Quercus. Pin oak is one of the most commonly used landscaping oaks in its native range due to its ease of transplant, relatively fast growth, and pollution tolerance.

Quercus Phellos

Height: 65 to 100 feet
Lifespan: 150 years
Trunk Diameter: 3.5 to 5 feet

Quercus phellos, the willow oak, is a North American deciduous tree species. It is native to the south-central and eastern United States. Economic uses are primarily as an ornamental tree and the wood for pulp and paper production, but also for lumber.

Quercus Rubra

Height: 90 to 130 feet
Lifespan: 350 to 400 years
Trunk Diameter: 20 to 39 inches

Quercus rubra, the northern red oak, is an oak tree in the red oak group (Quercus section Lobatae). It is a native of North America, in the eastern and central United States and southeast and south-central Canada. It has been introduced to small areas in Western Europe, where it can frequently be seen cultivated in gardens and parks.

Quercus Shumardii

Height: 50 to 90 ft
Lifespan: 450 years
Trunk Diameter: 24 to 39 in

Quercus Shumardii, also known as the Shumard Oak or Spotted Oak, is valued as a shade tree. Due to its ability to tolerate and thrive on many different soil types, this species has become widespread, as far north as Ottawa, Ontario and southern Quebec, and as far south as Lake Worth Beach, Florida.