Carolinian Trees
Found mostly in small pockets along Lake Erie or the southern part of the Lake Huron shoreline.

Chestnut	Cucumber Tree	Eastern Flowering Dogwood	Black Gum	Sassafras	Sycamore	Tulip Tree
Ohio Buckeye	Hop Tree	Kentucky Coffee Tree	Honey Locust	Red Mulberry	Paw Paw	Red Bud

Note: italicized trees do not occur naturally in Norfolk County

Other Deciduous Trees
(also found in other forest regions of Canada)
*Stars indicate more than one species.
**Green stars indicates that there is a Carolinian species.

**Ash	Basswood	Beech	**Birch	Black Cherry	*Elm	Hackberry
**Hickory	Hop Hornbeam	*Maple	**Oak	*Poplar	**Walnut	*Willow

Coniferous Trees
+ Indicated trees are commonly planted in South-western Ontario (but do not occur naturally)

White Pine	Tamarack	White Cedar	Red Cedar	Hemlock	+ Red Pine	+ White Spruce

All photographs by N. Cox, D.A. Sawyer, A.T. Sawyer and L. Sawyer

Photographs ©Point59.Productions and may not be used without permission.

References
Blouin, Glen. An Eclectic Guide to Trees East of the Rockies. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press. 2001.
Farrar, John Laird. Trees in Canada. Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside. 1995.
Kershaw, Linda. Trees of Ontario. Edmonton: Lone Pine Publishing. 2001.
Peterson, Lee Allen. Edible Wild Plants. New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1977.
Petrides, George A. and Wehr, Janet. Peterson Field Guides: Eastern Trees. New York: Houghton Millin. 1998.
Waldron, Gerry. Trees of the Carolinian Forest. Toronto: Firefly Books. 2003.

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