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- Redbud - Generally a small, skinny tree that lines most county roadsides and is scattered along its hillsides. Its showy hot pink flowers are the earliest color of Spring. They appear all over the tree even on the trunk.
- Flowering Dogwood - A small, bushy tree, it seldom grows beyond 30 feet. The flowers are a greenish-yellow, come in May, and then produce scarlet, egg-shaped fruit.
- Black Walnut - A giant, handsome tree, often growing over 100 feet. It has a dark, rough bark and its jet-black hardwood is prized for furniture. The leaves are made up of 13 to 25 leaflets. The walnuts are produced inside greenish, fleshy husks that do not split naturally.
- White Pine - The state's only soft pine, it is tall and stately often growing more than 175 feet. Its needles occur five in a cluster and upper limbs curve up at the tips. It bears large numbers of long, curved cones with thick scales. Prominent in reforestation efforts, many of the county's mountainsides are covered with this evergreen.
- Eastern Red Cedar - A small tree, it seldom grows more than 30 feet. Leaves are scale-like and grow in pairs. The fruit looks like a round blueberry and bark is thin and reddish-brown.
- Hemlock- This 60-foot tree is often found along streams. Flat, blunt leaves with dark green needles appear to grow only from two sides of the twigs. Cones are short with rounded scales.
[ Ferns :: Wildflowers :: Birds :: Trees :: Shrubs ]
