Status: Significant Tree

  • 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…

  • Maple, Boxelder

    Acer negundo is a small, usually fast-growing and fairly short-lived tree that grows up to 33–82 ft tall, with a trunk diameter of 12–20 in, rarely greater than 3 ft, in diameter. It often has several trunks and can form impenetrable thickets. This species prefers bright sunlight. It often grows on flood plains and other…

  • 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…

  • Juniper, Ashe

    Common names: Ashe juniper, mountain cedar, post cedar, rock cedar, Ozark white cedar, Mexican juniper. J. asheii is a dioecious large shrub or small tree, 20-30 (rarely to 50) feet tall, usually single-stemmed for basal 3-20 feet, up to 1.6 feet dbh. Branches long, spreading to ascending, forming an open to dense, and irregular to…

  • Maple, Boxelder

    Acer negundo is a small, usually fast-growing and fairly short-lived tree that grows up to 33–82 ft tall, with a trunk diameter of 12–20 in, rarely greater than 3 ft, in diameter. It often has several trunks and can form impenetrable thickets. This species prefers bright sunlight. It often grows on flood plains and other…

  • Cedar, Japanese

    Cryptomeria j. is an upright, conical-shaped tree with and a narrow crown with typically one straight trunk having finer drooping branches and shallow roots. Native to the central and southern islands of Japan. The Japanese Cedar is a very large evergreen tree, reaching up to 230 ft. tall and 13 ft. trunk; It is superficially…

  • Oak, Bur

    This massive Texas native grows best in the deep limestone soils of riverbanks and valleys, and prefers to grow in the open, away from forest canopy, but will adapt to many different environments. Bur Oak is deciduous, with a rounded, majestic form, reaching a height and spread of 60 – 80 feet. Bur Oak is…

  • 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…

  • Elm, Cedar

    The Cedar Elm is distributed widely over the state, near streams in deep rich soil, and on dry, limestone hills. It is the most common elm tree of Texas, extending to the Pecos River. It forms a tree up to 75 feet high with a tall straight trunk 2 to 3 feet in diameter, and…