The Big Trees and Shrubs of Michigan

ï~~2006 THE MICHIGAN BOTANIST 131 TABLE 4. Common Names of Michigan's Big Trees and Shrubs Common Name Genus/species Alaska-Cedar Alder, Black Alder, Speckled Apple, Common Apple, Crab Apple, Southern Crab Apricot Arborvitae, Oriental Ash, Black Ash, Blue Ash, Green Ash, Pumpkin Ash, White Aspen, Bigtooth Aspen, Quaking Bald Cypress Basswood Basswood, Large-leaved Beech, American Beech, American Weeping Beech, Copper Beech, European Beech, European Cut-leaf Beech, European Purple-leaf Beech, European Spaeth Beech, Tricolor Beech, European Weeping Beech, Fern-Leaved Birch, European White Birch, Hybrid Birch, Mt. Paper Birch, Paper Birch, River Birch, Western Paper Birch, Yellow Black Haw Bladdernut, American Box-elder Buckeye, Ohio Buckeye, Red Buckeye, Yellow Buckthorn, European Buckthorn, Glossy Burning-bush or Wahoo, Eastern Butternut Buttonbush Catalpa, Northern Catalpa, Southern Cedar, Japanese Cedar of Lebanon Cedar, White or ArborVitae Cherry, Choke Chamaecyparis nootkaensis Alnus glutinosa Alnus rugosa Malus pumila or M. sylvestris Malus coronaria Malus angustifolia Prunus armeniaca Thuja orientalis Fraxinus nigra Fraxinus quadrangulata Fraxinus pennsylvanica Fraxinus profunda Fraxinus americana Populus grandidentata Populus tremuloides Taxodium distichum var. distichum Tilia americana Tilia platyphylla Fagus grandifolia Fagus grandifolia var. pendula Fagus sylvatica var. atropunicea Fagus sylvatica Fagus sylvatica var. laciniata Fagus sylvatica var. purpurea Fagus sylvatica var. spatheana Fagus sylvatica var. tricolor Fagus sylvatica var. pendula Fagus sylvatica var. heterophylla Betula pendula Betula xpurpusii Betula papyrifera var. cordifolia Betula papyrifera Betula nigra Betula occidentalis Betula alleghaniensis Viburnum prunifolium Staphylea trifoliata Acer negundo Aesculus glabra Aesculus pavia Aesculus octandra Rhamnus cathartica Rhamnus frangula Euonymus atropurpurea Juglans cinerea Cephalanthus occidentalis Catalpa speciosa Catalpa bignoniodes Cryptomeria japonica var. lobbii Cedrus lebani Thuja occidentalis Prunus virginiana (Continued)