This small tree is native to areas as far north as Illinois and Ohio and as far south as Texas and Florida. Although the trees can tolerate areas that occasionally flood,they won’t grow well during drought. When fall arrives, don’t expect a bright display. The leaves often drop off th...
The Norway spruce is native to Europe. A symmetrical tree, it ranges in height from 80 to 100 feet. The bark is a bronze-pink color when young, becoming purple as the tree ages. Its needles are shiny green, pointed and borne on branchlets that hang downward from the main branches, acc...
This essay decolonizes settler accounts of Logan's words and deeds such as Jefferson's book by considering Indigenous relationships to a once-living memorial on Shawnee land in central Ohio, the Logan Elm, which nineteenth-century settlers apocryphally identified as the site...
The Pinus greggii is native to eastern Mexico states of Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Hidalgo, and much of central to east-central Mexico. This species is normally referred to as Greg’s pine. Greg’s pine has dark gray-brown bark, a vertical trunk, and straight, bright-green needles that occur...
A popular imported tree that became a neighborhood favorite in the 1990s now threatens to crowd out native trees in some Eastern forests. University of Cincinnati biologist Theresa Culley warns that for some parts of Ohio, it might be too late to stop the spread of the Callery pear. But she...
Seed Provenance is also provided with Native Range Maps. We use a 250 mile radius from Delaware, OH as the definition of “local” for our seed sources. Most of the seed we collect is from central Ohio while a few species are collected from surrounding states. ...
Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is a medium size tree. Native south of Michigan, its range reaches into southern Ohio. Planted to the north because its wood is used for fence posts, tool handles, and wheel hubs. Trees planted in rows along the edge of a field often served as living ...
While a fine native understory tree, it would top out one day at 20 feet or so. A followup call convinced them to return, remove the ironwood, and install a bur oak that, in a hundred years will top out at 80 feet with a similar spread. After reading Doug Tallamy’s “Natur...
‘Cork” Cork Oak is originally from southern Europe and is the source of all natural cork. There is a similar species found native to North America, the Prairie Oak a variety of live oak is found throughout the great plains and east to Ohio. It has a very thick cork like bark – ...
and are dangerous to the ecosystem. They spread like wildfire, latching on to boats and dropping themselves in new bodies of water where they don't belong. Once there, they can quickly overcome the environment, and push out native fish and water wildlife. So not really dangerous to people....