FOREST TREES AND FOREST REGIONS OF THE TJ. S. 



books or popular tree guides. A list showing the States which have 

 published tree manuals will be found on pages 52 and 53. 9 



EASTERN FOREST TREES 



The eastern division of forests of the United States, including the 

 northern, central hardwood, southern, and tropical forest regions 

 (fig. 7), has a total of 600 native tree species, representing 171 different 

 genera, 67 families, and the 2 broad classes which embrace all trees. 11 

 Popularly the different species are distributed as follows: 30 conifers, 

 2 yews (tumion), 11 palms, 4 yuccas, 1 cactus, 175 hawthorns, and 

 377 species of willows, birches, oaks, hickories, elms, maples, gums, 

 ashes, basswoods, and other hardwoods or broadleaf trees. Seven- 

 teen of these species are found growing also in the western forest 

 division of trees (pp. 24 to 32), as follows: White spruce, dwarf 

 juniper, aspen, balsam poplar, peachleaf and Bebb's willows, paper 

 birch, wild plum, leucaena, pin cherry, honey mesquite, coralbean, 

 hoptree, boxelder, red or green ash, buttonbush, and nannyberry. 



An asterisk (*) after a common name indicates that it is in common 

 use, but is not officially approved by the Forest Service. 



Name of tree 



Where the tree grows 



Descriptive notes 



Northern white 

 strobus) . 



pine (Pinus 



Red pine,* or Norway 

 (Pinus resinosa). 



Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda). 



Pitch pine (Pinus rigida) . 



pine) * 



Virginia pine (scrub 

 (Pinus virginiana) . 



Sand pine (Pinus clausa) 



Mountain pine (Pinus pungens)- 



Shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) . 



Spruce pine (Pinus glabra). 



Jack pine (Pinus banksiana). 



Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) 



Slash pine (Pinus caribaea). 



Tamarack (larch) * 

 cina) . 



(Larix lari- 



Black spruce (Picea marianna). 



Northeastern and Lake States, 

 Appalachian Mountains. 

 Extensively planted. 



Northeastern and Lake States. 

 Extensively planted. 



Southeastern States, coastal 

 plain Delaware to Texas. 



Northeastern and Middle At- 

 lantic States. Uplands 

 mostly. (A variety, pond 

 pine (Pinus rigida serotina) 

 (fig. 2, G) in the coastal plain 

 from Delaware to Florida.) 



Uplands, New Jersey and 

 Pennsylvania southwest to 

 Alabama. 



Florida and southern Alabama 



Scattered in mountains, Penn- 

 sylvania to northern Geor- 

 gia. 



Middle Atlantic and South- 

 ern States, New Jersey 

 to Missouri, Louisiana, and 

 Texas. Uplands. 



Coast region South Carolina 

 to Louisiana, along streams. 



Northern States, from Maine 

 to Minnesota. Common on 

 sandy soil. 



Coastal Plain, North Carolina 

 to Texas. 



Coastal Plain, South Carolina 

 south and west to Louisiana. 



Northeastern United States, 

 northern Rocky Mountains. 



Northeastern and Lake States. 

 Crosses continent in Canada. 



Leaves 5 in cluster, 3 to 5 inches long. 

 Cone cylindrical, 4 to 8 inches long 

 (fig. 1, H). Important timber tree. 



Leaves 2 in cluster, 5 to 6 inches long. 

 Cone 2 inches long, without prickles 

 (fig. 1, F). Important timber tree. 



Leaves 3 in cluster, 6 to 9 inches long. 

 Cone 2 to 3 inches long, with stiff 

 sharp prickles (fig. 2, E). Important 

 timber tree. 



Leaves 3 in cluster, 3 to 7 inches long, 

 stout, twisted. Cones short, broad, 

 2 to 3 inches long, with small pricklos 

 (fig. 1, H). 



Leaves 2 in bundle, twisted, 2 to 3 

 inches long. Cone 2 to 3 inches long; 

 very prickly. 



Much like Virginia pine. 



Leaves twisted, blue-green, 2 in bundle- 

 Cone 3 inches long with stout curved 

 spines. 



Leaves 2 or 3 in clusters, 3 to 5 inches 

 long. Cone small, about 2 inches 

 long; fine prickle (fig. 2, F). Impor- 

 tant timber tree. 



Leaves 2 in cluster, soft, slender, 2 to 

 3 inches long. Cones 1 to 2 inches 

 long, with tiny prickles (fig. 2, A). 



Leaves 2 in cluster, up to 1% inches 

 long. Cone 1 to 2 inches long, in- 

 curved, irregular in shape. 



Leaves 3 in cluster, 8 to 18 inches 

 long. Cone prickly, 6 to 10 inches 

 long (fig. 2, D). Important tree for 

 timber and naval stores. 



Leaves 2 or 3 in cluster, 8 to 14 inches 

 long. Cone shiny, 3 to 5 inches long 

 fig. 2, G). Important for timber and 

 naval stores. Extensively planted. 



Leaves 1 inch long, in clusters, falling 

 in winter. Cone % inch long (fig 

 1, E). 



Leaves blue-green, somewhat blunt 

 pointed. Cone on incurved stalk, 

 persistent for years; cone scales vrith 

 rough edges. Twigs finely hairy. 

 Important for pulpwood. 



• The common and scientific names used conform to those in Miscellaneous Circular 92, w with subsequent 

 amendments. 

 10 Sudworth, G.B. See footnote 7. 

 11 Gymnosperms and angiosperms. 



