American Basswood, Linden Basswood Scientific Name: Tilia americana
Description: A large symmetrical tree 50-70' and in favorable conditions 130' high, with a trunk diameter of 3+', the stem rising straight to the round-topped head, the branches horizontal, slender, often drooping. Bark deep brownish gray, firm, scored perpendicularly with elongated fissures, the ridges confluent, narrow, flat-topped marked with transverse cracks; the twigs slender, smooth, ruddy brown, and often zig-zagged, slightly dotted.
Habitat: Common in rich woods or fertile soils.
Range: New Brunswick west to Lake Superior, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and eastern Texas, and south to Virginia and along the mountains to Georgia.
Type: Tree Source:Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs by F. Schuyler Mathews
Photograph: Paul Wray, Iowa State University from www.forestryimages.org. |
