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Trees build strong communities by: - Making our streets friendlier places to walk and bike - Soaking up rainwater to keep our streams, lakes, and Puget Sound clean - Calming traffic, helping to avoid accidents - Cleaning our air, making it easier to breathe - And much more! Seattle’s urban forest depends on you! 2/3 of Seattle’s trees are planted around homes and maintained by residents. Without those trees, Seattle would be a sad place. Working together, we can have an urban forest that is healthy and growing. You can get involved in many ways: Attend a Tree Walk: We host free monthly tours of the unique and beautiful trees in neighborhoods across Seattle. Self-guided versions are also available on our website. Volunteer: Our volunteers lead Tree Walks with friends and neighbors and participate in fun events like Tree Stewardship work parties to help keep trees healthy and thriving. You can commit for an hour or a lifetime. Everyone is welcome. Plant a Tree: Our Trees for Neighborhoods project supports Seattle residents in planting trees around their homes by providing support, free trees, and workshops. For more information on our work and how you can get involved: Visit: www.Seattle.gov/trees Call: 206-615-1668 Email: [email protected] Follow Trees for Seattle on Facebook 2 First Hill Tree Walk Starts at 9th and University Pavement Park Tree Number & Tree Descriptions Photos Common name Notes Botanical name Address These trees can become 1. Sweetgum quite large, with their star Liquidambar shaped leaves and round syraciflua poky seeds they are a city favorite. Its scientific name is derived from the Latin NW corner of 'liquid' and Arabic for University St. 'amber'. They are native to and Terry Ave. eastern North America and are also called American storax. Storax may fight some bacteria and is taken for cancer, coughs, diarrhea, epilepsy, parasitic infections and sore throats. Their shapes are reminiscent 2. Alaska/ of what Dr. Seuss would Yellow Cedar paint for a tree or maybe a Xanthocyparis witch tree to some. It has the nootkatensis strongest wood of the cedars and has been used to make NW corner of boats. It is one of the slowest University St. growth rates and have up to and Terry Ave. 60 growth rings per inch! It is native to the coastal regions of NW North America. If you expose the inner bark and it is yellow and smells like raw potatoes you know it's a yellow cedar. It is the oldest tree in our region, it can live up to 1500 years old!! 3 This is a wonderful tree for 3. European cities as it has a bell shape. It Hornbeam also likes to grow in bunches Carpinus betulus or rows, as seen here. Its leaves will turn a nice yellow NE corner of in fall and its seeds are called University St. catkins. 'Carpinus' is Latin for and Terry Ave. hornbeam and 'betulus' for birch. Hornbeam comes from 'horn' for hard and 'beam' old English tree. This tree is native to 4. Chinese northeast Asia and has over Juniper a 100 cultivars since it's very Juniperus popular in gardens and chinensis parks. It has two kinds of 'broadway' needles and berry-like cones. Gin get its flavor from University Street Juniper berries. This on north side by 'broadway' variety is called the alley that because it looks like the between Terry tree is going hurrah! (with its and Boren branches up in the air=-) Avenue Also called Kobushi 5. Kobus magnolia, it is native to magnolia Japan. It has a teardrop Magnolia kobus shaped leave and its older bark is greyish-brown. It NW corner of blooms early in Spring and is University St. related to the star magnolia. and Boren Ave. There are about 210 magnolia species and many more varieties, which are named after the French botanist Pierre Magnol. Also called a 'Swamp maple' 6. Red maple this tree loves to grow by Acer rubrum rivers and swampy area =-)It is native to North America and is recognized by the U.S. SE corner of Forest service recognizes it University St. as the most common tree in and Boren Ave. North America!! It has red flowers, red fruit, reddish stems and twigs, red buds and in the fall red leaves ;-) 4 Native to our Pacific NW, this 7. Big leaf maple maple has the biggest leaves Acer of any other maple and also macrophyllum the longest flower raceme. It also carries the most moss Universtiy Street than any other plant in our East of Red leaf region, which can lead to maple 'canopy roots' from other plants growing on the accumulated soil. It can have so much moss its bark is not even visible. It is also called the paddle tree by the First Nations. The leaves of this tree are 8. Sugar Maple those found on the Canadian Acer saccharum flag and currency. The leaves have five lobes and five University Street distinct veins. Its trunk is next to Big leaf greyish. Like all maples it maple produces winged seeds/ helicopter seeds aka samaras which fly away to create little maples. Thanks to this wonderful tree we get maple syrup. In autumn its leaves can turn yellow, orange, red and more. These large trees are native 9. London plane to Europe. They have a Platanus x round poky seed, but not as acerifolia poky as the sweetgum. 'Acerifolia' means maple SW corner of species because of the University St. similar leaves and the 'x' in and Minor Ave. the Latin name means it is a hybrid. It is closely related to the American sycamore tree. If you look at the bark it has a camouflage pattern of grayish-brown and whitish flaky patches.