The Future Airport Acres Neighborhood Year 2001 a supplement to The Comprehensive Plan of Blacksburg, Virginia

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Trees Observed in the Neighborhood

Neighbors are encouraged to report the trees in their property. The current list is made only from observations from street-side. Prof. Seiler, Virginia Tech Department of Forestry, has been contacted (Oct.6, 2000) to seek a student(s) to prepare a tree species list (an independent study).

A list of the Trees of Montgomery County is available and the list of the trees in the neighborhood can be compared to it.

The last date for the list is October 24, 2000. Additions are encouraged.

1. Norway Maple
2. Silver Maple
3. Red Maple
4. Sugar Maple
5. Box Elder
6. Sweet gum
7. Lombardy Poplar
8. Norway Spruce
9. Serbian Spruce
10. Colorado Blue Spruce
11. Columnar Arbor vitae
12. Arbor Vitae
13. Eastern White Pine
14. Yew
15. Eastern Hemlock
16. Fir (sp?)
17. Eastern Juniper (Red Cedar)
18. Boxwood
19. Chinese Elm
20. Chinese Chestnut
21. Pear (Bartlett?)
22. Apple
23. Flowering Crabapple
24. Domestic Cherry
25. Wild Cherry
26. Weeping Willow
27. Salix sp.
28. Honey Locust
29. Dogwood
30. Autumn Olive (Eleagnus)
31. Yellow or River Birch ?(506 Rose)
32. Paper Birch
33. Pin Oak
34. Northern Red Oak
35. English Oak (Quercus robur)
36. Magnolia
37. Ash ?
38. Tulip Poplar
39. American Holly
40. Black Locust

Contributors: R.H. Giles, Jr.

NATIVE TREES OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY

This list of the native or forest trees of Montgomery County, Virginia, Blacksburg locale, was compiled by John S. Zack, a graduate student in the Forestry and Wildlife in 1980. Presence was based on the work of Massey (1961) and silvicultural range maps from Fowells (1965). If a species could not be differentiated as a large shrub or small tree, it was not included. Trees which have become naturalized in the county were also excluded. The superscript s indicates that the tree is typically present only in select areas. There are 57 species present among 21 families of trees, either number being an expression of the current biodiversity (phyto-diversity) of the area.

1. Family Aceraceae, Maple Family

1. Acer negundo:boxelder
2. Acer pensylvanicum: striped maple^s
3. Acer rubrum:red maple
4. Acer saccharinum: silver maple
5. Acer saccharum: sugar maple

   2. Family Betulaceae, Birch Family

6. Betula lenta: black (sweet) birch
7. Betula nigra: river birch ^s
8. Carpinus caroliniana: American hornbeam (musclewood)
9. Ostrya virginiana: eastern hophornbeam (ironwood)

   3. Family Cornaceae, Dogwood Family

10. Cornus florida: flowering dogwood

    4. Family Cupressaceae, Cypress or Cedar Family

11. Juniperus virginiana: eastern redcedar
12. Thuja occidentalis: northern white-cedar^s

    5. Family Ebenaceae, Ebony Family

13. Diospyros virginiana: common persimmon

    6. Family Ericaceae, Heath Family

14. Oxydendrum arboreum: sourwood

    7. Family Fagaceae, Beech Family

15. Fagus grandifolia: American beech
16. Quercus alba: white oak
17. Quercus bicolor: swamp white oak ^s
18. Quercus coccinea: scarlet oak
19. Quercus muehlenbergii: chinquapin oak ^s
20. Quercus prinus: chestnut oak
21. Quercus rubra: northern red oak
22. Quercus stellata: post oak
23. Quercus velutina: black oak

    8. Family Hippocastanaceae, Buckeye Family

24. Aesculus octandra: yellow buckeye ^s

    9. Family Juglandaceae, Walnut Family

25. Carya cordiformis: bitternut hickory
26. Carya glabra: pignut hickory
27. Carya laciniosa: shellbark hickory ^s
28. Carya ovalis: red hickory
29. Carya tomentosa: mockernut hickory
30. Juglans cinerea: butternut ^s
31. Juglans nigra: black walnut

    10. Family Lauraceae, Laurel Family

32. Sassafras albidum: sassafras

    11. Family Leguminosae, Pulse or Pea Family

33. Robinia pseudoacacia: black locust

    12. Family Magnoliaceae, Magnolia Family

34. Liriodendron tulipifera: yellow-poplar
35. Magnolia acuminata: cucumbertree ^s

    13. Family Moraceae, Mulberry Family

36. Morus rubra: red mulberry

    14. Family Nyssaceae, Tupelo Family

37. Nyssa sylvatica: blackgum (black tupelo)

    15. Family Oleaceae, Olive Family

38. Fraxinus americana: white ash
39. Fraxinus pennsylvanica: green ash

    16. Family Pinaceae, Pine Family

40. Pinus echinata: shortleaf pine ^s
41. Pinus pungens: Table-mountain pine
42. Pinus rigida: pitch pine
43. Pinus strobus: eastern white pine
44. Pinus virginiana: Virginia pine
45. Tsuga canadensis: eastern hemlock
46. Tsuga caroliniana: Carolina hemlock ^s

    17. Family Platanaceae, Sycamore or Planetree Family

47. Platanus occidentalis: American sycamore

    18. Family Rosaceae, Rose Family

48. Amelanchier arborea: downy serviceberry
49. Prunus pennsylvanica: pin cherry
50. Prunus serotina: black cherry

    19. Family Salicaceae, Willow or Poplar Family

51. Populus grandidentata: bigtooth aspen ^s
52. Salix nigra: black willow

    20. Family Tiliaceae, Linden Family

53. Tilia americana: American basswood ^s
54. Tilia heterophylla: white basswood ^s

    21. Family Ulmaceae, Elm Family

55. Celtis occidentalis: hackberry ^s
56. Ulmus americana: American elm ^s
57. Ulmus rubra: slippery elm ^s

Literature and other Resources:

The tree unit of The Trevey, a unit of www.LastingForests.com.

Brockman, C.F. 1968. Trees of North America. Golden Press, New York. 280pp.

Core, E.L. and N.P. ammons. 1958. Woody Plants in Winter. Boxwood Press, Pittsburgh, Pa. 218pp.

Fowells, H.A. 1965. Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States. Agriculture Handbook No. 271. U.S.D.A. Forest Service. 762pp.

Harlow, W.M., E.S. Harrar, and F.M. White. 1978. Textbook of dendrology. 6th Ed. Mcgraw=Hill Book Company. SlOpp.

Massey, A.B. 1961. Virginia flora. Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Tech. Bull. 155. Blacksburg, Va. 258pp.

Radford,A.E.,H.E. Ahles, and C.R. Bell. 1978. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 6th Ed. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. 1183pp.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 1973. Silvicultural Systems for the Major Forest Types of the United States. U.S. Dep. Agric. Handb. 445. ll4pp.

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