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Tennessee: Tulip-tree: Liriodendron tulipifera: 1947 [53] Texas: Pecan: Carya illinoinensis: 1919 [54] United States Virgin Islands: None [55] Utah: Quaking aspen: Populus tremuloides: 2014 [56] Vermont: Sugar maple: Acer saccharum: 1949 [57] [58] Virginia: Flowering dogwood: Cornus florida: 1956 [59] Washington: Western hemlock: Tsuga ...
Name (by alphabetical order) Location (of main entrance) Bledsoe State Forest: Bledsoe County: Cedars Of Lebanon State Forest: Wilson County: Chickasaw State Forest
In terms of biodiversity, the only comparable temperate deciduous forest regions in the world are in central China, Japan, and in the Caucasus Mountains.Both the Appalachians (along with the neighbouring Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests ecoregion) and central China contain relict habitats of an ancient forest that was once widespread over the Northern Hemisphere.
Swamp white oak, a lowland tree, occurs across the eastern and central United States and eastern and central Canada, from Maine to South Carolina, west as far as Ontario, Minnesota, and Tennessee with a few isolated populations in Nebraska and Alabama. This species is most common and reaches its largest size in western New York and northern ...
A common ornamental, and also in demand as a fast-growing source of light wood for construction and furniture. The tree is most common on the lower slopes of the Appalachians and in the Piedmont. Uses: timber; landscaping, pulpwood, sap resins, veneers. [101] All but ME NH WI
Tennessee is the most biodiverse inland state, [226] the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most biodiverse national park, [227] [228] and the Duck River is the most biologically diverse waterway in North America. [229]
Ulmus crassifolia Nutt., the Texas cedar elm or simply cedar elm, is a deciduous tree native to south-central North America, mainly in southern and eastern Texas, southern Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana, with small populations in western Mississippi, southwest Tennessee, and north-central Florida; [2] it also occurs in northeastern Mexico.
Most of the mountain's commercial timber was removed by the various logging operations that occurred on the mountain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hemlock, magnolia, sourwood, tulip trees, and silverbell trees are among the most common tree types encountered along the Meigs Mountain Trail. [2]