1 Live Oak – Widely used as a shade tree because of 11 Silver Maple – A preferred nesting species for 20 Eastern Hemlock – Provides shelter and its low, wide spreading crown. Its acorns are sweet and Baltimore Orioles. Very soft wood allows cavities to bedding for white-tailed deer. Wood was primarily provide food for birds and animals. Was used extensively form in the trunks, providing shelter for many birds and used for light framing, sheathing, roofing, subflooring, The Trees of in the building of wooden ships because of its hardness mammals. The soft wood also allows many species of fungi boxes, crates and general millwork. The bark was once a and strength. to grow. Leaves are eaten by several species of moths. commercial source of tannin in the production of leather. Abingdon 2 American Beech – Provides a favorite nesting site for 12 River Birch – Wood is used to manufacture 22 Water Oak – Used for lumber, fuel, environmental chickadees and shelter for wildlife. The fruits (beechnuts) inexpensive furniture, basket hoops and turned articles. forestry and wildlife habitat. Abundant acorns provide Episcopal are an important food source for many animals, Strength of the wood makes it suitable for the manufacture good food for wildlife. It has been widely planted in including red fox, white-tailed deer, opossums, bluejays, of artificial limbs and children’s toys. Seeds are sometimes southern communities as a shade tree. Its veneer has woodpeckers, and ducks. eaten by birds and foliage is browsed by white-tailed deer. been successfully used as plywood for fruit and vegetable Church containers. 3 & 11 Willow Oak – An important source of lumber and 14 Southern Magnolia – One of the oldest blooming pulp, as well as an important species to wildlife because of plants, approximately 130 million years old. Flowers do not 23 Yew – Yews are often found in churchyards in the heavy annual acorn production. It is also a favored shade produce nectar but do produce large quantities of pollen United Kingdom. They are deeply symbolic: the poisonous tree, easily transplanted and used widely in urban areas. and are typically pollinated by beetles. Seeds are eaten by leaves represent death; the extremely hard wood is a songbirds. Wood is moderately heavy, hard and cream- symbol of eternity; the tree’s longevity is a symbol of 4 & 21 Red Maple – The wood is heavy and close- colored; was used mainly for furniture, Venetian blinds afterlife. The wood was used in the Middle Ages to make grained, and used for furniture, gunstocks, clothespins, and fuelwood, but is now highly valued as a landscape traditional English longbows. musical instruments and boxes. The sap is comparable in specimen. quality to that of sugar and black maple for making syrup. 24 Eastern Redbud – Flowers provide nectar for Henry’s White-tailed deer and elk like to eat the twigs. 15 Northern White Cedar, (Eastern Aborvitae) – Elfin butterfly and hummingbirds. Honeybees use the Provides habitat for many species of birds. The wood’s light flowers for pollen. Foliage and twigs browsed by white- 5 & 6 Flowering Dogwood – Depends on bees, beetles, weight and resistance to decay makes it useful for a number tailed deer. Buds, bark and seed occasionally eaten by butterflies and other insects to help pollinate it. Provides a of applications. The principal commercial uses are for rustic squirrels. Bobwhite, quail and songbirds eat the seeds. valuable food source for songbirds and wild turkey. Provides fencing and posts; other important products include cabin 25 Black Walnut – The wood is used for fine furniture, shelter and habitat for many wildlife species. Wood is hard, logs, lumber, poles and shingles. Smaller amounts are used strong and shock resistant and has been harvested for the interior paneling, specialty products and gunstocks. The for paneling, piling, lagging, pails, potato barrels, tubs, ties kernels provide food for wildlife and humans. Ground A Self-Guided manufacture of tool handles, charcoal, wheel cogs, hayforks and boats. and pulleys. shell products are used to clean jet engines, as additives to our and ap 16 Hackberry – Seed is eaten by animals. The fruit is drilling mud for drilling operations, as filler in dynamite T M 7 American Basswood (Linden) – Basswood has eaten also by quail, ring-necked pheasant, wild turkey, and as a flour-like carrying agent in various insecticides. The parish was established relatively soft wood that works exceptionally well and is cedar waxwings, sharp-tailed grouse, yellow-bellied valued for hand carving. The inner bark can be used as a 26 Foster Holly – One of the few hollies in which female circa 1650 in a wooden church sapsuckers, mockingbirds, robins and other birds. Good plants will produce fruit without fertilization from a male on Robin’s Neck. The current source of fiber for making rope or for weaving such items as grades of wood are used for furniture, millwork and some baskets and mats. Basswood flowers produce an abundance pollinator. Fruits are attractive to birds. Flowers attract building was erected between athletic equipment. Poor grades are used for crates and bees. of nectar from which choice honey is made. Seeds and twigs boxes. 1751 and 1755 on land donated are eaten by wildlife. 27 American Holly – Depends on insects such as bees, by George Washington’s great- 17 Bitternut Hickory – Choice fuel for smoking meat. wasps and moths to pollinate its flowers. Provides cover 8 Southern Red Oak – Wood is hard, strong and coarse- Wood is hard and durable; used for furniture, paneling, grandfather and is the second grained and used for general construction, furniture and and nesting sites for many bird species. Berries occur dowels, tool handles and ladders. Other uses include bars, on female plants only and are eaten by small mammals on this site. The Parish Hall was fuel. Acorns provide food for wildlife. Larval host for crates, pallets and flooring. Seeds are eaten by wildlife. Banded Hairstreak and White M Hairstreak butterflies. and at least 18 species of birds. Wood has been used for constructed in the 1960s. making canes, scroll work and furniture, and has even been 9 Loblolly Pine – Provides habitat for a variety of game 18 Laurel Oak – The wood is hard and heavy but does substituted for ebony in inlay work when stained black. and nongame wildlife species. Attracts birds and butterflies. not make good lumber. It is used occasionally for fuel and Church grounds include a Larval host for Elfin butterfly. The bark of Loblolly Pine pulpwood. The laurel oak’s heavy acorn production makes 28 Cherokee Princess Flowering Dogwood – See labyrinth, a meditation garden, is very thick which helps make this tree very resistant to it a good source of food for many birds and small mammals. notes for Flowering Dogwood (#5). ‘Cherokee Princess’ numerous flower beds, and many It is sometimes planted as an ornamental. fire in the wild. is a cultivar noted for its prolific blooming of large, trees planted by members of 10 American Sycamore – Fruits are brown one-inch 19 Yellowwood – Wood was once used to make snow-white flowers with white bracts in spring before leaves appear. Red, late summer fruit attracts songbirds. the congregation. The grounds balls that hang on a long, flexible stalk. The seeds, which gunstocks. Flowers are visited by a large number of bees. are especially beautiful in spring are tightly clustered inside the fruit, are called “achenes” Trees may not flower until they are 10-years-old and then Crimson-purple fall color. Originally introduced in and are eaten by songbirds, mallards, beavers, muskrats seem to give outstanding displays only in cycles of every 1959-60 as C. florida ‘Sno-White’. when the daffodils are in bloom. and gray squirrels. Bark is eaten by beavers. Wood two to five years. ducks build nests in the trees. Updated April 15, 2019 1. Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) The Trees of Abingdon Episcopal Church 2. American Beech (Fagus grandifolia) 3. Willow Oak (Quercus phellos) 4. Red Maple (Acer rubrum) 5. Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) 6. Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) 7. American Basswood (Linden) (Tilia americana) 8. Southern Red Oak (Quercus falcata) 9. Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) 10. American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) 11. Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum)

12 . River Birch (Betula nigra) Flowering Dogwood 13. Willow Oak (Quercus phellos) 14. Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) 15. Northern White Cedar, (Eastern Aborvitae) (Thuja occidentalis) 16. Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) 17. Bitternut Hickory (Carya cordiformis) Eastern Redbud 18. Laurel Oak (Quercus laurifolia) 19. Yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea or C. lutea) 20. Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) 21. Red Maple (Acer rubrum) 22. Water Oak (Quercus nigra) 23. Yew (Taxus spp) 24. Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis) 25. Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)

26. Foster Holly (Ilex x attenuata ‘Fosteri’) American Holly 27. American Holly (Ilex opaca) www.abingdonchurch.org 28. Cherokee Princess Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida ‘Cherokee Princess’)