ID Trees 13- Understory trees and shrubs
American Boxwood
A boxwood shrub imported from Europe and Asia. Now extensively cultivated in the Eastern United States as an ornamental.
Table Mountain Pine
A pine tree native to the Appalachian Mountains from central New York to northern Georgia. Destroyed by Pine Sawyers. Pinus pungens
American Chestnut
A street tree native to all of the Eastern United States. Fallen to chestnut blight in the 1950s. Castanea dentata
American Hornbeam
A tree native to all of the Eastern United States. Also known as the Blue Beech. Carpinus caroliniana
Box Elder
A tree native to all of the Eastern United States. The only maple tree with pinnately compound leaves. Damaged or destroyed by the Boxelder bugs. Acer negundo
Water Tupelo
A tree native to the Coastal Plain Region of the United States from New Jersey, south to Florida, and west to Texas. Nyssa aquatica.
Honeylocust
A tree native to the northeastern United States in the Mid-Atlantic states, the New England States, and the Midwest. Gleditsia triacanthos
Mountain Basswood
A tree native to the southern Appalachian Mountains from North Carolina and Tennessee south to northern Georgia. Similar to the American Basswood.
Striped Maple
Acer pensylvanicum. A small North American species of maple. Native to the Appalachian Mountains from eastern Canada and Maine to western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
Overcup Oak
An Understory Oak tree native to most of the Eastern United States in the Coastal Plain from Delaware south to Florida and West to Louisiana. Quercus lyrata.
Rock Elm
An elm tree native to the Eastern United States from Maine west to Vermont and south to Connecticut and Rhode Island in the New England states and from New York south to Maryland and Delaware in the Mid-Atlantic States. Damaged by Dutch Elm Disease. Ulmus thomasii
American Hophornbeam
An understory tree native to all of the Eastern United States. Ostrya virginian
Devil's Walkingstick
An understory tree or shrub native to all of the Eastern United States. Known simply by its thorns on the bark. Aralia spinosa
Gray Birch
Betula populifolia. An understory Birch tree native to all of the Mid-Atlantic States and New England.
Bebb Willow
Salix bebbiana. A shade or understory tree native to the Mid-Atlantic and New England portions of the Eastern United States and the Great Lakes portion of the Midwest. Damaged by Willow Anthracnose. Anthracnose turns leaves orange and weakens its internal structure.
Winged Elm
Ulmus alata. An elm tree known for its corky winged branches. It is native to the woodlands of the southeastern and south-central United States from southeastern Virginia south to the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and eastern Texas. Highly susceptible to Dutch elm disease and Elm Yellows.
