MINNESOTA NATIVE TREES

There are two types of trees: deciduous trees and coniferous trees.
 
Deciduous trees drop their leaves every year in the Fall. Examples of deciduous trees are oak trees, maples, and elms. 

Coniferous trees produce seeds without fruits or nuts. Most coniferous trees have cones and needles and keep their needles in winter. Examples of coniferous trees are evergreen trees, spruces, firs, and pines.

Minnesota is home to 52 different indigenous trees, with 80%  being deciduous. 

DECIDUOUS TREES NATIVE TO MINNESOTA

• American basswood
• American elm
• American hornbeam (blue beech)
• American mountain ash
• Balsam poplar (balm-of-gilead)
• Bigtooth aspen (largetooth aspen, poplar, popple)
• Bitternut hickory
• Black ash
• Black cherry
• Black maple
• Black oak
• Black walnut
• Box elder
• Bur oak
• Butternut
• Chinkapin oak (yellow chestnut oak)
• Eastern cottonwood
• Eastern hophornbeam (ironwood)
• Green ash (red ash)
• Hackberry
• Honeylocust
• Kentucky coffeetree
• Mountain maple
• Northern mountain ash (showy mountain ash)
• Northern pin oak (Jack oak, Hill oak)
• Northern red oak
• Paper birch
• Pin cherry
• Quaking aspen (trembling aspen, poplar, popple)
• Red maple
• Red mulberry
• River birch
• Rock elm
• Shagbark hickory
• Silver maple
• Slippery elm (red elm)
• Sugar maple
• Swamp white oak
• White ash
• White oak
• Willow
• Yellow birch

CONIFEROUS TREES NATIVE TO MINNESOTA 

• Balsam fir
• Black spruce
• Eastern hemlock
• Eastern red cedar (juniper)
• Eastern white pine
• Jack pine
• Northern white cedar
• Red pine (Norway pine)
• Tamarack (eastern or American larch)
• White spruce

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