-A common land species that grows the biggest and in the most abundant amounts in lower Mississippi Valley

-Used to make plywood,cabinets, and furniture. The gum is used to make chewing gum or concoct medicines as well as making adhesives

-Grows from Connecticut southward throughout the East to central Florida and eastern Texas. Found as far west as Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma and north to southern Illinois.

-A low maintenance, deciduous small tree or shrub. Favored among gardeners for its beauty.

-Used for buffer strips around parking lots, for median strip plantings along highways, near decks, patios, as shade trees in small parking lots and around homes.

-Florida, southernmost Texas, South Louisiana, coastal southern California, and Hawaii.

-A small to medium-sized deciduous tree in the maple family that is native to Asia. Genus name is the Latin name for a maple tree. The species name honors Heinrich Buerger, 19th-century German botanist.

-Used mostly in landscaping

-Tree is found in AL , AR , CT , DE , FL , GA , IL , IN , KY , LA , MA , MD , ME , MO , MS , NC , NH , NJ , NY , OH , OK , PA , RI , SC , TN , TX , VA , VT , WV

-Loblolly pine is a 60 ft. tree which can reach 150 ft. It loses its lower branches with age, leaving an open, rounded crown. Dark green needles are 6-10 in. long. Bark is gray and scaly.

-Found in AL , AR , DC , DE , FL , GA , IL , KY , LA , MD , MS , NC , NJ , OK , SC , TN , TX , VA

-This tree is a conical to round-topped tree, 50-100 ft. tall, with thick, leathery, leaves that are semi-evergreen in the warmer parts of its range. The shiny, dark-green leaves are wedge-shaped and may have lobes at the tips. Foliage becomes yellow in fall. Tree with conical or rounded crown of slender branches, and fine textured foliage of small leaves.

-Found in AL , AR , DC , DE , FL , GA , IL , KY , LA , MD , MO , MS , NC , NJ , OK , SC , TN , TX , VA

-Is a deciduous tree, can attain 100 ft. but is usually shorter in cultivation. Its straight trunk supports a cone-shaped crown which becomes round at maturity. Long, fine-textured, narrow leaves with tiny awn at apex, resembling the foliage of willows, turn from bright green in summer to yellow or russet in fall. Bark is gray to reddish brown. Nut nearly round, cup shallow.

-Found in AL , AR , CT , DC , DE , FL , GA , IL , KY , LA , MD , MO , MS , NC , NJ , NY , OK , PA , SC , TN , TX , VA

-An Evergreen, aromatic tree with trunk often angled and buttressed at base and narrow, compact, columnar crown; sometimes becoming broad and irregular. Pyramidal when young, Eastern Red Cedar mature form is quite variable. This evergreen usually grows 30-40 ft. but can reach 90 ft. Fragrant, scale-like foliage can be coarse or fine-cut, and varies in color from gray-green to blue-green to light- or dark-green. All colors tend to brown in winter. Pale blue fruits occur on female plants. Soft, silvery bark covers the single trunk.

-Found in AL , AR , CO , CT , DC , DE , FL , GA , IA , IL , IN , KS , KY , LA , MA , MD , ME , MI , MN , MO , MS , NC , ND , NE , NH , NJ , NY , OH , OK , OR , PA , RI , SC , SD , TN , TX , VA , VT , WI , WV

-The leaves are typically arranged in a pinnate manner, meaning there are leaflets on either side of the stem that usually appear in pairs. The tree is deciduous, so it loses its leaves in the winter. Crabapple flowers have white, pink or red petals with darker buds that bloom during April and May.

-This tree is present throughout all of Ohio, and predominates as a spreading tree native to the upper two-thirds of the Eastern United States, especially the Midwestern States.

-Chinese elm is a fast-growing, deciduous or evergreen tree, Chinese elm forms a graceful, upright, rounded canopy of long, arching, and somewhat weeping branches which are clothed with one to two and a half-inch-long, shiny, dark green leaves. Some specimens grow in the typical vase-shaped elm form.

-Found in DC, NC, NE, NJ, VA, and WI