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Latin Name
Abies
concolor
Acer
campestre
ginnala
griseum
nigrum
platanoides
rubrum
saccharinum
saccharum
tataricum
Aesculus
flava
glabra
hippocastanum
parvifolia
x carnea
Alnus
glutinosa
rugosa
Amelanchier
alnifolia
arborea
canadensis
laevis
Asimina
triloba
Betula
nigra
pendula
platyphylla japonica
populifolia
Carpinus
betulus
caroliniana
japonica
Carya
cordiformis
illinoinensis
ovata
Catalpa
speciosa
Celtis
occidentalis
Cephalanthus
occidentalis
Cercidiphyllum
japonicum
Cercis
canadensis
Chionanthus
x virginicus
Cladastris
lutea
Clethra
alnifolia
Meaning/Origin
Latin: Fir, from abire (to rise)
same coloring throughout
Latin: Maple, also means sharp
of the fields
common name from Asia
grey
black
resembling Platanus
red
sugary
Greek: sakcharon, sugarcane
from Tartary region of Asia
Latin: type of oak
yellow
smooth, without hairs
Latin: horsechestnut, from horseshoe shaped leaf scars
small leaved
flesh or deep pink
Latin: Alder
gluey or sticky
wrinkled
French: name for A. ovalis
leaves like those of alder
tree-like
from Canada
smooth, hairless
French: version of Indian assimin
three lobes
Latin: birch tree
black
hanging down
with broad leaves, from Japan
leaves like those of Poplar
Latin: hornbeam
resembling Birch
from N. or S. Carolina
from Japan
Greek: karya, walnut tree
heart shaped
from Illinois
egg shaped
Native American: for C. bignonioides
showy
Greek: unrelated tree
from the Occident/Western world
Greek: kephale , head
from the Occident/Western world
Leaves like Cercis
from Japan
Greek: kerkis , Judas tree
from Canada
Greek: chion (white) and anthos (a flower)
from Virginia
Greek: klados (branch) and thraustos (fragile)
yellow
Greek: klethra, white alder tree, similar leaves
leaves like those of alder
Latin Name
Cornus
alba
mas
pumila
racemosa
Corylus
americana
colurna
Cotoneaster
acutifolia
apiculata
horizontalis
Crataegus
crusgalli
crusgalli inermis
mollis
phaenopyrum Cordata
Eucommia
ulmoides
Fagus
grandiflora
sylvatica
Fraxinus
quadrangulata
Ginkgo
biloba
Gleditsia
triancanthos inermis
Gymnocladus
dioicus
Halesia
monticola
Hamamelis
virginiana
Ilex
verticillata
Juglans
cinera
nigra
Juniperus
chinensis
Koelreuteria
paniculata
Larix
decidua
laricina
Liriodendron
tulipifera
Maackia
amurensis
Magnolia
x soulangiana
Malus
domestica
sargentii
Metasequoia
glyptostroboides
Meaning/Origin
Latin: Cornelian cherry (C. mas)
white
male, masculine
dwarf
flowers in a raceme
Greek: hazel bush (C. avellana)
from the Americas
latin for hazel nut or wood
Latin: cotoneum (quince) , aster (superficial resemblance to something)
sharply pointed leaves
leaves abruptly tipped with a sharp point
horizontal
Greek: hawthorn
cock's spur
cock's spur unarmed
softly hairy
the appearance of Pear, heart shaped
Greek: eu (good) and kommi (gum)
Like Ulmus
Latin: beech tree (F. sylvatica)
large flowered
forest loving, grows in woods
Latin: ash tree (F. excelsior)
with four angles
Ancient Japanese: gin-kyo(silver apricot)
two lobed
John Gottlieb Gleditch, Director of Berlin Botanic Garden (1700's)
three thorned, unarmed
Greek: gymnos (naked) and klados (branch)
Dioecious, male and female flowers on different trees
Rev. Stephen Hales, curate of Teddington, England (1700's)
growing on mountains
Greek
from Virginia
Latin: evergreen holm oak (leaves resemble)
whorled
Latin: jovis (of Jupiter) and glans (acorn)
ash colored
black
Latin: Juniper tree
from China
Joseph Gottlieb Koelreuter, pioneer in plant hybridization (1700's)
flowers in panicles
Latin: common larch
deciduous
Resembles larch
Greek: leirion (lily) and dendron (tree)
tulip bearing
Richard Maack, Russian naturalist, explorer in E. Asia (1800's)
from Amur River region, Manchuria
Pierre Magnol, director of Montpellier Botanic Garden in France (1600's, 1700's)
Chevalier Etienne Soulange-Bodin, French horticulturist (late 1700's, early 1800's
Latin: apple
domesticated, used in gardens
Charles Sprague Sargent, American Botanist, First Director of Arnold Arboretum (late 1800's, early
Greek: meta (after, or changed in nature) and Sequoia
resembles Glyptostrobus (Chinese Cypress)
Latin Name
Morus
rubra
Nyssa
sylvatica
Ostrya
virginiana
Parrotia
persica
Picea
abies
pungens glauca
Pinus
cembra
mugo
nigra
ponderosa
resinosa
strobus
sylvestris
Populus
deltoides
tremuloides
Prunus
americana
triloba
virginiana
Pseudotsuga
menziesii
Pyrus
calleryana
Quercus
acutissima
alba
bicolor
coccinea
imbricaria
lyrata
macrocarpa
muehlenbergii
palustris
robur
rubra
shumardii
velutina
Rhododendron
Rhus
glabra
typhina
Rosa
carolina
Salix
caprea
discolor
Sambucus
canadensis
Sassafras
albidum
Meaning/Origin
Latin: mulberry
red
Nysa or Nyssa, a water nymph
forest loving, grows in woods
Greek: ostrys (hop-hornbeam tree)
from Virginia
F.W. Parrot, Russian naturalist, climbed Mt. Ararat in 1834
from Persia (Iran)
Latin: pitch pine, now used for spruce
Latin: Fir (from abire, to rise)
Latin: piercing, sharp pointed, blue-grey
Latin: Stone pine (P. pinea)
Italian: Stone pine
Tyrolese: name for P. mugo
black
heavy, weighty
having resin
Latin: name for incense bearing tree
forest loving, grows in woods
Latin: poplar tree
triangular
like Populas tremula in appearance
Latin: cherry tree
from the Americas
three lobes
from Virginia
False Tsuga (hemlock)
Archibald Menzies, Scottish Naval Doctor, sailed with Vancouver on 1790 expedition to NW Pacific
Latin: pear
J.M. Callery, Roman Catholic missionary, Botanist in China and Korea (1800's)
Latin: oak
very acutely pointed
white
two colors
scarlet
overlapping, like shingles on a roof
lyre-shaped
with large fruits
Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg, American Lutheran minister, amateur botanist (late 1700's)
growing in marshes, or wet places
Latin: hard wood
red
Benjamin Franklin Shumard, State Geologist of Texas 1860
velvety
Greek: rhodon (rose) and dendron (tree)
Greek: common name for species of Sumac
smooth, without hairs
resembles Typha (reed-mace)
Latin: rose
from N. or S. Carolina
Latin: willow
favored by goats
of two colors
Latin: this group of plants
from Canada
Native American
whitish
Latin Name
Taxodium
distichum
Taxus
cuspidata
media
Thuja
koraiensis
occidentalis
Tilia
americana
cordata
euchlora
tomentosa
Tsuga
canadensis
Ulmus
parvifolia
Viburnum
dentatum
lantana
opulus
prunifolium
trilobum
Meaning/Origin
Latin: taxus (yew) and Greek: eidios (resemblance)
in two parallel ranks
Latin: yew
bearing a stiff point
intermediate between two types
Greek: thuia (resin bearing tree)
from Korea
from the Occident/Western world
Latin: linden tree
from the Americas
heart shaped
Greek: eu (good) and chloros (green)
covered with short and woolly or matted hairs
Japanese: hemlock
from Canada
Latin: Elm
small leaved
Latin: one species of Viburnum
toothed
Latin: Viburnum
Latin: name for type of maple
leaves like those of Prunus
three lobes
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