Tour Overview

a short walk through the arboretum introducing you to many of the more common ornamental trees

Created for Botany 410 this is a tour of ornamental trees with specific traits used to help identify these trees

Stops

Stop 1: 1. Sugar Maple – Acer sacharum
Stop 2: 2. Gambell Oak – Quercus gambelii (very short trees near waters edge)
Stop 3: 3. Norway Spruce – Picea abies (there is a stand of these just beyond the oaks)
Stop 4: 4. English Oak – Quercus robur (rounded lobes)
Stop 5: 5. Sawtooth Oak – Quercus acutissima (leaf is pointy like an arrowhead with serrated edges)
Stop 6: 6. Chinkapin Oak – Quercus muelenbergii
Stop 7: 7. Northern Pin Oak – Quercus ellipsoidalis (lobes end in fine point)
Stop 8: 8. Red Maple – Acer rubrum (near the bend in the pathway)
Stop 9: 9. Flowering Cherry – Prunus sp. (there is a stand of these just south of the Japanese garden)
Stop 10: 10. Japanese maple – Acer palmatum (this is on the outer edge of the Japanese garden- small size)
Stop 13: 13. White Oak – Quercus alba
Stop 14: 14. Red Oak – Quercus rubra
Stop 15: 15. Bigleaf Oak – Quercus macrocarpa