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Plant Taxonomy Portfolio
By: Matthew Mattox
Eastern Red Cedar
• Juniperus Virginiana
• Keeps its foliage year round, grows in zones 2-9, aromatic
tree with reddish wood giving off the scent of cedar.
• Full direct sun for 6 hours per day.
• Likes acidic, loamy, moist, rich, well drained and clay soils
Red Cedar
• The eastern red cedar grows in a columnar or pyramidal
shape, and features scale-like evergreen leaves compacted to
form rounded branches. It’s also green and produces grayish
colored fruit. Can grow to 40-50In in height and 8-20in in
width.
• Has a high tolerance to heat, salt, wide ranges of soils, and
other adverse.
• Flowering or fruiting is the reproduction method.
Black Oak
• Quercuz Velutina
• The inner bark is bright yellow to orange, the outside bark is
smooth and gray on young trees but as they age the bark
turns a thick dark black with ridges. The black oaks fruit are
acorns.
• Best growth is in moist, well-drained soils with average
temperatures.
• Grows in zones 3-9
Black Oak
• The black oak can grow up to 50-80ft tall and 40-60ft wide it
can differ between species. It always grows broad and
rounded. With different aged trees there can be different
textures, the older trees are more rough and ridged while
younger trees are smooth.
• Reproduces by flowering or fruiting which involves seed
production and dissemination.
• Tolerates mostly everything.
Bradford Pear
• Pyrus Alleryana
• Zone 5-9
• Prefers well-drained loams with consistent moisture in full
sun.
• The Bradford pear is a tight, narrow, pyramidal, thornless
tree. Oval glossy dark leaves that change to a reddish-purple
in fall. Viable seeds can be produced when the pear crosspollinate.
Bradford Pear
• Can grow up to heights as 25-35ft with the spread of 13-16ft. Its
flowers in the fall are five-petaled white creamy flowers and is a
upright-branched ornamental tree. It grows pyramidal to columnar in
youth but becomes oval in spreading age.
• Tolerates drought, clay soil, and air pollution
• Reproduces by seeding.
Eastern RedBud
• Cercis Canadensis
• Grows in zones 4-9
• Is a deciduous tree with purplish-pink flowers. One of the
earliest flowering trees is often used to add color.
• Prefers well-drained soil or any type of soil with full sun to
shade.
Eastern RedBud
• The redbud can grow up to 30ft tall and 25ft high, and it also
is a rounded tree. Flowers appear in clusters on bear stems
before leafs and last up to 2-3 weeks. Foliage turns a distinct
yellow in the fall.
• Tolerates mainly everything
Red Maple
• Acer Rubrum
• The red maple is a deciduous tree so it loses its leaves in the
fall. Color differs from tree to tree in the fall. Has small red
flowers in dense clusters that appear in late winter.
• Prefers sandy loam to clay, with bright sun to partial shade.
• Has air pollution tolerence
Red Maple
• Considered a medium texture tree with a pyramidal shape when
young. Can grow up to 40-60ft with a width of 25-45 ft. Its leafs are
simple leafs with 3-5 lobes often triangular shape.
• Grows in zones 3-9
• Reproduces with little seedlings, is thought to be an easy tree to
transplant when young
Smooth Sumac
• Rhus Glabra
• The smooth sumac has 11-31 leaflets that are lanceolate or
oblong lanceolate. Has a short life span compared to other
plants. Cannot survive when exposed to temps below -33F.
• It reproduces by bare root, container or seed
• Found in zones 3-9
Smooth Sumac
• Prefers full sun to part shade, medium or no water, well-drained soil.
• The smooth sumac is a deciduous shrub that grows up to 9-15ft with
a width of 9-15ft. Its blooms are yellowish-green and grows to a large
open irregular shrub.
• Tolerates wide range of soils except for ones that are not well drained.
Mocker Nut Hickory
• Carya Tomentosa
• Leafs are pinnately compound while the whole leaf can grow
up to 20 inches long. Its flowers are tiny and clustered
together to make catkin. If a Mocker Nut Hickory ever falls or
its cut down a new tree can sprout from its stump.
• Flowering or fruiting, seedling or dissemenation
Mocker Nut Hickory
• The Mocker Nut Hickory can grow up to 50-80ft tall with a tree trunk
up to 2ft wide and has pinnately compound leafs ranging from 9-17in
long with 7-9 lanceolate oblong leaflets. The nuts have extremely
hard shells.
• Prefers wet, fine loams, sandy textured soils that often have been
burned, plowed, and pastured.
• Tolerates mostly everything
Black Gum
• Nyssa Sylvatica
• In the summer the black gums leafs are shiny dark green
above and downy below. Early color changes they change
bright scarlet or purple in late summer. Flowers that appear
in early spring in clusters on separate trees.
• Prefers acidic soils overlying sandstone, chert, or igneous
substrate of dry, rocky, wooded slopes, ridges, ravines, and
borders of sinkhole ponds. Full sun to part shade
Black Gum
• The black gum can grow up to 30-50ft with the spread of 20-30ft.
Grows in Eastern North America in zones 3-9. Blooms are greenishwhite in color, and straight trunk with rounded crown. Fruits mature
to dark blue to attract birds.
• Tolerances include clay and wet soil.
• Reproduces by fruiting and pollinating.
Black Walnut
• Juglans Nigra
• Zones 4-9
• Prefers rich, well-drained soil of bottomlands.
• The leaves are compound with 1 to 23 leaflets, and ranging
in size from 1 to 2 feet. The leaflets are 2 1/2 to 4 inches
long, finely toothed and slightly hairy below the surface.
Twigs are moderately stout to very stout, gray-green or light
brown in color.
Black Walnut
• The black walnut can grow up to 50-75ft but can reach the maximum
height of 125-175ft tall and 50-70ft wide. Has a well formed trunk
with no stems for quite some way above the ground. The crown is
oval to rounded and somewhat open. The bark is dark gray or black
and becomes deeply furrowed with interconnecting ridges.
• Can tolerate drier soils but will grow much more slowly.
Sycamore
• Platanus
• Have large leafs with distinctive deep green that grow on
branches that can reach up to 175ft tall. Turn yellow in the
fall. Very tall compared to other trees.
• Grows in zone 4-9
• Tolerates pollution and salty soils
Sycamore
• Preferes soil with lots of moisture
• Can grow up to 175ft tall and 14ft wide, the sycamores leafs mimic its
tree size. In full bloom the broad, green leaves form a canopy that can
exceed 70 feet in diameter.