Handout for "Seeing Trees" Lecture
Nancy Ross Hugo; nancyhugo@comcast.net
Legacy Trees
- White oak (Quercus alba)
- Swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor)
- Willow oak (Quercus phellos)
- Chestnut oak (Quercus prinus/ Q.montana)
- Northern red oak (Quercus rubra)
- Overcup oak (Quercus lyrata)
- Post oak (Quercus stellata)
- American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
- Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
- Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica)
- Tulip polar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
- Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata)
- American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
- Eastern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
- Also, for eastern Virginia: baldcypress (Taxodium distichum)
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Also, for western and northern Virginia: sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
eastern white pine (Pinus strobus)
To learn more about tree lifespans (average and maximum):
Read "Tree life history strategies: the role of defenses," by Craig Loehle, Canadian Journal of Forestry, Vol. 18, 1988.
Or visit: http://www.web2.cnre.vt.edu/4h/bigtree/TreeAge.htm
Additional Resources:
Books- Michael Dirr's Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, Stipes Publishing, 1998
- David Allen Sibley's The Sibley Guide to Trees, Knopf, 2009
- Donald Culross Peattie's A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America, Houghton Mifflin, 1991
- Colin Tudge's The Tree: A Natural History of What trees are, how they live, and why they matter, Crown Publishers, 2005
- David Streeter's The Natural History of the Oak Tree, Doring Kindersley, 1993
- Silvics of North American Vol. 1: Conifers; Silvics of North America Vol. 2: Hardwoods: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/
table_of_contents.htm - USDA Plants database: http://plants.usda.gov
- Atlas of the Virginia Flora: http://vaplantatlas.org/
- Leafsnap: http://leafsnap.com
- Audubon Guide to North American Trees: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audubon-trees-field-guide/id334843956?mt=8
