Native Trees of Georgia*                          

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Georgia’s forests are home to approximately 250 species of trees. 

Native Trees of Georgia describes 92 of them.

Ash, Green Ash, White Baldcypress Basswood Birch, River Birch, Sweet Boxelder Buckeye, Painted Butternut Catalpa, Southern Cedar, Red Cedar, White Cherry, Black Chestnut, American Chinkapin, Allegheny Cottonwood, Eastern Cottonwood, Swamp Cucumbertree Dogwood, Flowering Dahoon Elm, American Elm, Slippery Elm, Winged Hackberry, Georgia Hawthorn Hemlock, Eastern Hickory, Bitternut Hickory, Carolina Hickory, Mockernut Hickory, Pignut Hickory, Red Hickory, Sand Hickory, Shagbark Hickory, Shellbark

Holly, American Honeylocust Hophornbeam, Eastern Hornbeam, American Locust, Black Magnolia, Chalk Magnolia, Florida Magnolia, Red Mulberry, Red Oak, Black Oak, Blackjack Oak, Bluejack Oak, Chestnut Oak, Georgia Oak, Laurel Oak, Live Oak, Northern Red Oak, Overcup Oak, Post Oak, Scarlet Oak, Shumard Oak, Southern Red Oak, Swamp Chestnut Oak, Turkey Oak, Water Oak, White Oak, Willow

Pine, Eastern White Pine, Loblolly Pine, Longleaf Pine, Pitch Pine, Pond Pine, Shortleaf Pine, Slash Pine, Spruce Pine, Table Mountain Pine, Virginia Persimmon Redbud, Eastern Sassafras Serviceberry, Downy Silverbell, Carolina Sourwood Sugarberry Sweetbay Sweetgum Sycamore, American Tupelo, Black Tupelo, Swamp Tupelo, Water Walnut, Black Willow, Black Yaupon Yellow Poplar

* A hard copy of Native Trees of Georgia is available for $1.00 plus shipping.

   Please contact the Communications Department at 478.751.3530 or kkeck@gfc.state.ga.us.

 

Resources

Tree Species Fact Sheets, Georgia - Dendrology at Virginia Tech