List of native trees

This is a list of native trees which have been growing in the forests of the Birmingham District before cultivated species were introduced by white settlers in the early 1800s:

• Allegheny chinkapin (Castanea pumila), also known as Chinkapin, Allegheny or American chinquapin or Dwarf chestnut
• American beech (Fagus grandifolia), also known as Beech
• American chestnut (Castanea dentata), also known as Chestnut
• American elm (Ulmus americana), also known as White elm, Gray elm or Water elm
• American holly (Ilex opaca), also known as Holly or White holly
• American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana), also known as Hornbeam, Blue beech, Water beech, Ironwood, or Musclewood
• American smoke-tree (Cotinus obovatus ), also known as Chittamwood, Yellow-wood, Smoketree or Smoke bush
• Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum), also known as Bald cypress, Common baldcypress, Gulf cypress, Red cypress, Southern cypress or Swamp cypress
• Bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis), also known as Bitternut, Swamp hickory or Pig hickory, Pignut, Bitter pecan, Bitter pignut, White hickory or Red-heart hickory
• Black cherry (Prunus serotina), also known as Wild black cherry, Rum cherry, or Mountain black cherry
• Blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica), also known as Blackjack, Barren oak, Black oak, Jack oak
• Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), also known as Yellow locust, Locust, or Acacia
• Black oak (Quercus velutina), also known as Eastern black oak, Smooth-bark oak, Yellow oak, or Quercitron oak
• Black tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica), also known as Tupelo, Blackgum, Pepperidge, Sourgum, and Beetlebung
• Black walnut (Juglans nigra), also known as Eastern black walnut, American walnut, or Gunwood
• Black willow (Salix nigra), also known as Swamp willow, Crack willow
• Blue ash (Fraxinus quadrangulata), also known as Mountain ash or White ash
• Bluejack oak (Quercus cinerea or Quercus incana), also known as Cinnamon oak, Sand jack, Shin oak, Turkey oak, or Upland willow oak
• Boxelder
• Butternut
• Carolina ash
• Carolina silverbell
• Chestnut oak
• Cucumbertree
• Green ash
• White ash
• White basswood
• Sweet birch
• River birch
• Redbay
• Sweetbay
• River birch
• Osage-orange
• Red buckeye
• Southern catalpa
• Eastern cottonwood
• Flowering dogwood
• Slippery elm
• Winged elm
• Sweetgum
• Water tupelo
• Sugar hackberry
• Eastern hemlock
• Mockernut hickory
• Pignut hickory
• Red hickory
• Shagbark hickory
• Honeylocust
• Eastern hophornbeam
• Southern magnolia
• Red maple
• Silver maple
• Sugar maple
• Red mulberry
• Laurel oak
• Live oak
• Northern red oak
• Overcup oak
• Post oak
• Scarlet oak
• Southern red oak
• Turkey oak
• Water oak
• White oak
• Willow oak
• Pawpaw
• Persimmon
• Loblolly pine
• Longleaf pine
• Pond pine
• Sand pine
• Shortleaf pine
• Slash pine
• Spruce pine
• Virginia pine
• Poison-sumac
• Eastern redbud
• Eastern red cedar
• Sassafras
• Sourwood
• Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis), also known as Planetree, American sycamore, American plane, Occidental plane, Buttonball or Buttonwood
• Common hackberry
• Dwarf hackberry
• Yellowpoplar

References

• Martin, Ivan R. and Wilbur B. DeVall (1949) Forest Trees of Alabama. Auburn: Alabama Polytechnic Institute

External links

• 100 Forest Trees of Alabama. Alabama Forestry Commission