Trees and bushes in the Hermitage Natural Area

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Common name	Botanical name	Trail	taxon_id	Keystone value
Red Maple	Acer rubrum	Green	48098	254
Common Hackberry	Celtis occidentalis	Green	54857	47
White Mulberry	Morus alba	Green	48460	NN
Flowering dogwood	Cornus florida	Green	54777	101
Northern White Cedar	Thuja occidentalis	Green	54037	AD
Black Locust	Robina pseudoacacia	Green	56088	59
Black Cherry	Prunus serotina	Green	54834	362
Silver Maple	Acer saccharinum	Green	54762	254
Green ash	Fraxinus pennsylvanica	Green	54808	124
Tree of Heaven	Ailanthus altissima	Green	57278	NN
Pin oak	Quercus palustris	Green	54785	488
Willow oak	Quercus phellos	Red		488
Silky dogwood	Cornus amonum	Green	58749	101
Tupelo	Nyssa sylvatica	Green	58749	34
Japanese Angelica	Aralia elata	Green	158549	NN
Norway Maple	Acer plantanoides	Green	54763	NN
Blackhaw viburnum	Viburnum prunifolium	Green	129977	99
Osage orange	Maclura pomifera	Green	58205	AD
Eastern Redbud	Cercis canadensis	Green	48502	25
Crab Apple	Malus sp	Green	54500	245
Sassafras	Sassafras albidum	Blue	54796	32
Winterberry holly	Ilex verticillata	Blue	61119	44
Sweet Cherry	Prunus avium	Blue	61964	NN
White oak	Quercus alba	Blue	54779	488
Southern Arrowwood	Viburnum dentatum	Blue	82247	99
American Holly	Ilex opaca	Blue	60749	44
Northern Spicebush	Lindera benzoin	Blue	54793	11
Southern red (Spanish) oak	Quercus falcata	Blue	61324	488
Black Tupelo	Nyssa sylvatica	Blue	54802	79
Elder	Genus sambucus	Meadow	52689	31
Eastern Black Walnut	Juglans nigra	Meadow	54504	128
Buttonbush	Cephalanthus occidentalis	Red	52763	24
Common Hawthorn	Crataegus monogyna	Red	51147	132
Highbush blueberry	Vaccinium corymbosum	Red	52740	237
Bigtooth aspen	Populus grandidentata	White	48460	237
Tulip tree	Liriodendron tulipfera	White	53582	18
American Sweetgum	Liquidambar styraciflua	White	49658	37
American Beech	Fagus grandifolia	White	49202	124
Shining Sumac	Rhus spp.	Green	126698	53

NN= Not Native
AD= Adventive, native to north America, but not New Castle County
taxon_id= The iNaturalist identifier of each species or family
Keystone value=The number of lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) associated with the each genera in 82 counties in 25 states.
Nov. 2020 paper by Narango, Tallamy & Shropshire: Few keystone plant genera support the majority of Lepidoptera species
Keystone values from Native Plant Finder for zip 19720 (NWF, USFS, UD) https://www.nwf.org/NativePlantFinder/Plants
Similar table for North Carolina: https://www.audubon.org/native-plants