-Acer saccharinum

-Aceraceae

-Silver Maple

-Samara

-"Sweet, sugary"

-Fruits mature in spring; eaten by grouse, songbirds,                   squirrels, chipmunks, mice

-Grazed by deer

-Formerly used in landscaping but has shallow roots

-Ailanthus altissima

-Simaroubaceae

-Tree-of-heaven

-Samara

-"very tall"

-Native to China; invasive

-Some develop skin rash from leaves

-No commercial value

-Calycanthus floridus

-Calycanthaceae

-Bubby Bush

-Achene

-"flowering"

-High  quality deer browse

-Flowers made into necklaces

-Carya illinoinensis

-Juglandaceae

-Sweet Pecan

-Nut

-"of Illinois"

-Used in furniture

-Nut used in baking

-Planted for fruits

-Castanea mollissima

-Fagaceae

-Chinese Chestnut

-Nut

-"softly pubescent"

-Native to China and Korea

-Fruit eaten by humans, turkey, squirrels, chipmunks, and    deer

-Celastrus orbiculatus

-Celastraceae

-Oriental Bittersweet

-Capsule

-"round"

-Native to Eastern Asia

-Weed in NC

-Fruits used in dried floral arrangements and wreaths

-Celtis laevigata

-Ulmaceae

-Sugarberry

-Orange/brown drupe

-"smooth"

-Fruit eaten by songbirds, fox, opossum, squirrels,                   humans

-Wood use same as Elms

-Ginko biloba

-Ginkoaceae

-Ginko

-Fleshy seeds

-"2 lobed"

-Prob extinct in nature

-Dioecious

-Some get rashes from leaves

-Dried leaves used to treat dementia and Alzheimer's

-Maclura pomifera

-Moraceae

-Bodark

-Multiple of drupes

-"pome bearing"

-Wood used in bows, fence posts, wagon axles,                       yellow/brown die

-Some get rash from milky sap

-Planted as living fence

-Melia azedarach

-Meliaceae

-Chinaberry

-Yellow drupe

-"Persian name for noble tree"

-Native to India/China

-Fruit posionous to humans, livestock, poultry

-Formerly planted around houses to repel insects

-Metasequoia glyptostroboides

-Cupressaceae

-Dawn-Redwood

-Peltate cone

-"similar to Glyptostrobus"

-Native to China

-Landscaping

-Morus alba

-Moraceae

-White Mullberry

-Multiple of drupe

-"white"

-Native to China

-Introduced for food for silkworm

-Fruit eaten by humans and wildlife

-Picea abies

-Pinaceae

-Norway Spruce

-Flat Cone

-"fir tree"

-Native to Europe

-Wood used for pulp, dimension lumber, musical                     intruments

-Lbs for lbs, stronger than steel

-Landscaping

-Quercus laurifolia

-Fagaceae

-Laurel Oak

-Nut

-"laurel leaved"

-Red oak uses

-Landscaping

-Sassafras albidum

-Lauraceae

-Sassafras

-Blue drupe

-"nearly white"

-Fruit eaten by songbirds

-Root used in root beer and tea

-Possible carcinogenic

-Castnea dentata

-Fagaceae

-American Chestnut

-Nut

-"dentate"

-Used to be prominent in Apps, reduced to shrub by                Chestnut Blight

-Wood formerly used in siding, shingles, furniture,                   paneling, fence posts

-Nut eaten by bear, deer, small mammals, boar, human

-Picea rubens

-Pinaceae

-Red Spruce

-Flat cone

-"reddish"

-Only spruce to Southern Apps