Trees For All Seasons

Minnesota is home to 52 native tree species.

Different trees thrive under different conditions. When planting trees, native species are a good choice. Tree professionals can help choose species that are right for the site.

Tree Quizzes
Try one of these mind-stumpers to see what you know about Minnesota's trees.

Deciduous-

• 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-

• 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

To learn more about Minnesota's native trees, check out the following:

• Trees of Minnesota. Minnesota's Bookstore, order number 9-1, phone: 800-657-3757.
• Minnesota Trees. Minnesota Extension Service, order number BU-00486-GO, phone: 800-876-8636.
• Recommended Trees for Minnesota by Region
• Nature Snapshots: Trees & Shrubs