TREE PAGES name
trees TO know IN PROSPECT PARK Conifer / Evergreens:
Broadleaf / Deciduous:
White Pine
Northern Catalpa…Catalpa speciosa
Red Pine
Plains Cottonwood
Cedars
Box elder
Spruce
American Elm
Ginkgo
Bur oak
Tamarack
Basswood Silver Maple
White mulberry — story of failed silk mfg project
Black Walnut
Russian Olive — FDR windbreak story
Hackberry
Ginkgo — living fossil story
Willow
Buckeye
Northern catalpa Catalpa speciosa
Have you seen the long bean pods of the catalpa on the sidewalk and wondered what animal would want a bean that size? It’s a clue to how different Prospect Park used to look. X,000 years ago in the Paleozoic When the land mass that is now MN hovered near the equator, blah blah also trumpet vine & hummingbirds reminders of tropical past
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/northern-catalpa https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/Catalpa-speciosa.shtml
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PLAINS cottonwood Populus deltoides
Shape of stem makes them flap...like aspens Dakotah story about star inside twig, sound of cottonwood
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/plains-cottonwood
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BOX ELDER Acer negundo
Deconstructed maple
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/northern-catalpa https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/Catalpa-speciosa.shtml
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american elm Ulmus americana
Dutch elm disease....settler colonialism
www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/northern-catalpa www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/Catalpa-speciosa.shtml
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bur oak Quercus macrocarpa
see the other green line
www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/bur-oak
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basswood Tilia americana
Basswood / linden
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/american-basswood
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silver maple Acer saccharinum
maple flowers!!
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/silver-maple
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black walnut Juglans nigra
Walnut ink/dye
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/black-walnut
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hackberry Celtis occidentalis
funny bumps
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/hackberry
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white pine Pinus alba
5 needles grandmother tree
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/silver-maple
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red pine Pinus rubra
maple flowers!!
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/silver-maple
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Juniper Acer saccharinum
maple flowers!!
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/silver-maple
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cedar Acer saccharinum
maple flowers!!
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/silver-maple
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Ginkgo Ginkgo biloba
maple flowers!!
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/silver-maple
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bur oak Quercus macrocarpa
see the other green line
www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/bur-oak
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spruce Picea species
Never shake hands with a spruce.
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/silver-maple
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Russian olive Catalpa speciosa
Have you seen the long bean pods of the catalpa on the sidewalk and wondered what animal would want a bean that size? It’s a clue to how different Prospect Park used to look. X,000 years ago in the Paleozoic When the land mass that is now MN hovered near the equator, blah blah also trumpet vine & hummingbirds reminders of tropical past
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/northern-catalpa https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/Catalpaspeciosa.shtml
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tamarack Larix laricina
Have you seen the long bean pods of the catalpa on the sidewalk and wondered what animal would want a bean that size? It’s a clue to how different Prospect Park used to look. X,000 years ago in the Paleozoic When the land mass that is now MN hovered near the equator, blah blah also trumpet vine & hummingbirds reminders of tropical past
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/northern-catalpa https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/Catalpaspeciosa.shtml
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ARTIST’S CHOICE _________________ Latin name
Select any tree you would like to befriend and see if you can identify it. Websites below
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/northern-catalpa https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/plant-of-the-week/Catalpaspeciosa.shtml
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resources SOCIAL HISTORY martin case jim crow of the north slavery’s reach under the witches hat TREES & PLANTS OF MN https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info https://trees.umn.edu/yea https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/trees/native-trees.html RIVER https://www.nps.gov/miss/learn/historyculture/river-ofhistory-chapter-1.htm ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY https://www.intersectionalenvironmentalist.com
PLAINS cottonwood Populus deltoides
Shape of stem makes them flap...like aspens Dakotah story about star inside twig, sound of cottonwood
https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/tree/plains-cottonwood
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