Trees of the Adirondack Park

The table below contains a listing of native tree species in the Adirondack region of upstate New York, based on data from the New York Flora Atlas produced by the New York Flora Association. Nomenclature follows the New York Flora Atlas. The list was created by searching the digital atlas for those tree species present in Warren, Herkimer, Hamilton, Franklin, Essex, and Clinton counties.

Adirondack Trees

The above list of native tree species present in the Adirondack region includes trees from the following families: Aceraceae, Altingiaceae, Anacardiaceae, Aquifoliaceae, Betulaceae, Cannabaceae, Cornaceae, Cupressaceae, Ebenaceae, Fagaceae, Juglandaceae, Magnoliaceae, Malvaceae, Moraceae, Nyssaceae, Oleaceae, Pinaceae, Platanaceae, Rhamnaceae, Rosaceae, Rutaceae, Salicaceae, Ulmaceae.

This list has the following limitations:

• The New York Flora Atlas is organized by county. The boundaries of the Adirondack Park do not coincide with county boundaries. Only those counties with land area that falls totally or mainly within the Park were searched to create the list above: Warren, Herkimer, Hamilton, Franklin, Essex, and Clinton. Two of these counties – Hamilton and Essex – fall totally within the boundaries of the Adirondack Park. The other four counties (Warren, Herkimer, Franklin, and Clinton) contain areas which fall outside the Park. For that reason, some of tree species on the list may be plants that fall within county boundaries, but outside the Blue Line.
• The tree list above does not include the six counties (Washington, St. Lawrence, Lewis, Fulton, Oneida, and Saratoga) on the periphery of the Park that fall mainly outside Park boundaries. The list may exclude tree species in those counties that occur within the Blue Line.
• The distribution maps in the New York Flora Atlas are based on vouchered specimens only. Some tree species may be present within the Park, but not included in the Atlas because a voucher specimen has never been collected. The current Atlas is considered preliminary and in a draft stage. The list of tree species in the Adirondack region will likely change, as the New York Flora Atlas is revised, improved, and developed.
• The New York Flora Atlas categorizes each species according to growth habit. Plants of some species may grow either into shrubs or small trees, depending on their growing conditions. For such species, two growth habits (tree and shrub) are listed in the Atlas. Determining which species to include in the tree list and which to include in the shrub list was based on how each species was categorized in the list of native plants in Preliminary List of Species Native Within the Adirondack Park Listed Alphabetically by Scientific Name and Sorted by Habit.
• The list includes only species listed as native in the Atlas. Some nonnative tree species, such as Norway Spruce and Scotch Pine were used to reforest areas devastated by fire or intensive logging. These species are commonly encountered along some Adirondack trails, but are not included in this list of native species.

References

New York Flora Association.  New York Flora Atlas. Retrieved 21 February 2017.

New York State. Adirondack Park Agency. Preliminary List of Species Native Within the Adirondack Park Listed Alphabetically by Scientific Name and Sorted by Habit. Volume 1. Updated 10.23.2006. Retrieved 26 January 2017.