-Alnus serrulata

-Betulaceae

-Hazel Alder

-Nutlet/Samara

-"finely saw-toothed"

-Roots fix nirtogen

-Planted in wetland rstoration by puching branch into           ground

-Carpus Caroliniana

-Betulaceae

-Musclewood, American Hornbeam

-Nutlet

-"of carolina"

-Splitting wedges and tool handles

-Landscaping

-Cercis canadensis

-Fabaceae

-Redbud

-Legume

-"of Canada"

-Lanscaping

-Edible flowers

-Cornus amomum

-Cornaceae

-Silky Dogwood

-Metallic Blue Drup

-Wetland reclamation

-Corylus americana

-Betulaceae

-Hazelnut

-Nut

-"of America"

-Fruit eaten by turkey, songbirds, small mammals,               humans

-Fuffed group eat catkins in winter

-Fraxina americana

-Oleaceae

-White Ash

-Samara

-"of America"

-Furniture, sports equipment, tools, flooring

-Inner bark eaten by beavers

-Killed by emerald ash borer

-Lespedeza cuneata

-Fabaceae

-Lespedeza

-Legume

-"wedge-shaped"

-Roadsides, skid-trails, and logging decks to stabilize

-Eaten by quail

-Leucothoe fontanesiana

-Ericaceae

-Dog-hobble

-Capsule

-Landscaping

-Liriodendron tulipifera

-Magnoliaceae

-Yellow-poplar

-Agreggate of samaras

-"bearing tulips"

-BEE TREE

-Plywood

-Fruit eaten by songbirds in winter

-Magnolia tripelata

-Magnoliaceae

-Umbrella Tree

-Aggregate of follicles

-"three-petaled"

-Songbirds eat seed

-Morus rubra

-Moraceae

-Red Mulberry

-Multiple of drupelets

-"red"

-Fruit eaten by songbirds, raccoons, opossum, squirrels

-Eaten by humans

-Quercus rubra

-Fagaceae

-Northern Red Oak

-Nut

-"red"

-Lumber, molding, furniture, paneling, flooring

-Rhododendron sp

-Ericaceae

-Azalea

-Capsule

-Evergreen

-Rhododendron maximum

-Ericaceae

-Rhododendron

-Capsule

-"largest"

-Foliage and bark poisonous when eaten

-Smoke toxic

-Styrax grandifolius

-Styracaceae

-Bigleaf Snowbell

-"large-leaved"

-Tsuga canadensis

-Pinaceae

-Eastern Hemlock

-Flat cone

-"of Canada"

-Bark used in tanning

-Defoliation by wooly adelgid

-Tsuga caroliniana

-Pinaceae

-Carolina Hemlock

-Flat cone

-"of Carolina"

-Western NC

-Attacked by Hemlock Wooly Adelgid

-Tsuga heterophylla

-Pinaceae

-Western Hemlock

-Flat cone

-"variously leaved"

-Pacific northwest

-Dimension lumber and pulpwood