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Status: Significant Tree

  • Maple, Silver

    The silver maple is a relatively fast-growing deciduous tree, commonly reaching a height of 50–80 ft, exceptionally to 115 ft. Its spread will generally be 35–50 ft wide. A 10-year-old sapling will stand about 25 ft tall. It is often found along waterways and in wetlands, leading to the colloquial name “water maple”. It is…

  • Pecan

    The Pecan, the “State Tree of Texas”, is found native in the state from the Piney Woods westward throughout Central Texas, centering in the watershed of the Colorado River. It makes an excellent shade tree and is very valuable for the nut crop it bears. Many varieties are planted in orchards. The pecan is a…

  • Oak, Water

    Water oak is a tall slender tree that reaches 50′ to 80′ in height. It is characterized as having a rounded crown that is symmetrical in shape. It is a medium-sized deciduous tree, growing to 30 m (100 ft) tall with a trunk up to 1 m (3 ft) in diameter. Water Oak is adapted…

  • Cypress, Bald

    The BALD CYPRESS grows in swamps which are flooded for prolonged periods, and on wet stream banks and bottomlands. It occurs in East Texas west to the Nueces River and also along streams and rivers of Central Texas. The straight trunk has numerous ascending branches, and narrow conical outline. In old age the tree generally…

  • Oak, Live (Escarpment)

    Quercus fusiformis (also often referred to as Q. virginiana var. fusiformis), commonly known as Texas live oak, escarpment live oak or plateau live oak, is an evergreen or nearly evergreen tree native to south-central North America. In the United States, it occurs from southern Oklahoma south through Texas, from about Corpus Christi in the east…

  • Hercules Club, Texas

    The Hercules-Club Texas or Pricklyash (Zanthoxylum hirsutum Buckley) is found on sandy or gravelly soil of Central and West Texas. This native plan is not to confused with the larger Hercules-club native the SE US Zanthoxylum clava-herculis. A prickly shrub, sometimes a small tree rarely exceeding 12-15 ft tall.. Found in open areas and at…

  • Sycamore, American

    A sycamore can grow to massive proportions, typically reaching up to 30 to 40 meters (98 to 130 ft) high and 1.5 to 2 meters (4.9 to 6.6 ft) in diameter when grown in deep soils. The largest of the species have been measured to 51 meters (167 ft), and nearly 4 meters (13 ft)…

  • Holly, Yaupon

    When one hears the name Yaupon Holly or holly for that matter a tree dos not usually come to mind. However, most varieties of Yaupon left unattended or groomed as such will grow to have large trunks and be quite tall with relatively large crown spans. This woody native is quite the favorite of many…

  • Oak, Blackjack

    Quercus marilandica (Blackjack oak) is a small oak, one of the red oak group Quercus sect. Lobatae, but fairly isolated from the others. It is native to the southern and central United States. The Blackjack oak grows in poor, thin, dry, rocky or sandy soils where few other woody plants can thrive, usually on low…

  • Pine, Slash

    The Slash Pine is not a native of Texas, its natural range in the United States being along the coast from South Carolina to eastern Louisiana. The initial planting of the slash pine in East Texas was made on the E. O. Siecke State Forest near Kirbyville in 1926. It has been widely planted in…