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The Flora of North America North of Mexico (usually referred to as FNA) is a multivolume work describing the native plants and naturalized plants of North America, including the United States, Canada, St. Pierre and Miquelon, and Greenland. It includes bryophytes and vascular plants.
Cladrastis kentukea is widely grown as an ornamental tree for its attractive flowers, and is locally naturalized in many areas of the eastern United States outside of its restricted native range. [3] It thrives in full sunlight and in well-drained soil, tolerates high pH soils as well as acid situations.
The native flora of the United States has provided the world with a large number of horticultural and agricultural plants, mostly ornamentals, such as flowering dogwood, redbud, mountain laurel, bald cypress, southern magnolia, and black locust, all now cultivated in temperate regions worldwide, but also various food plants such as blueberries ...
The diversity of tree species has an impact on the overall health of the forest, its wind resistance, and the food value for wildlife. Create stronger canopy with urban forest diversity with ...
Philadelphus (/ ˌ f ɪ l ə ˈ d ɛ l f ə s / [2]) (mock-orange) is a genus of about 60 species of shrubs from 3–20 ft (1–6 m) tall, native to North America, Central America, Asia and (locally) in southeast Europe.
(state flower) Rosa: 2004 [52] Indian blanket (state wildflower) Gaillardia pulchella: 1986 [52] Mistletoe (state floral emblem) Phoradendron leucarpum: 1893 [52] Oregon: Oregon grape: Berberis aquifolium: 1899 [53] Pennsylvania: Mountain laurel (state flower) Kalmia latifolia: 1933 [54] Penngift crown vetch (beautification and conservation ...
Aesculus glabra, commonly known as Ohio buckeye, [2] Texas buckeye, [3] fetid buckeye, [3] and horse chestnut [3] is a species of tree in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae) native to North America. Its natural range is primarily in the Midwestern and lower Great Plains regions of the United States, extending southeast into the geological Black ...
Japanese tree lilac Small Non-native Yes Syringa reticulata subsp. pekinensis: Chinese tree lilac Small Non-native Yes Taxodium distichum: Bald cypress Large Non-native Yes Thuja occidentalis: Northern white-cedar Native No Tilia americana: American linden Large Native Yes Tilia cordata: Littleleaf linden Large Non-native Yes Tilia tomentosa ...