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Common Trees Species of the Bruce Peninsula PART 2

Common Trees Species of the Bruce Peninsula PART 2. White Birch (Betula papyrifera) Also called paper birch, silver birch or canoe birch not much more than 16m (50 ft) in height and short lived (less than 150 years) grows in wide range of soils and provides prime browse for deer and moose.

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Common Trees Species of the Bruce Peninsula PART 2

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  1. Common Trees Species of the Bruce Peninsula PART 2

  2. White Birch • (Betula papyrifera) • Also called paper birch, silver birch or canoe birch • not much more than 16m (50 ft) in height and short lived (less than 150 years) • grows in wide range of soils and provides prime browse for deer and moose

  3. Yellow Birch • (Betula alleghaniensis) • extensively used for flooring, cabinetry and toothpicks • provincial tree of Quebec • Deer, rabbits and beaver feed on this tree • prefers cool, moist habitats

  4. Trembling Aspen • (Populus tremuloides) • sucession tree, growing in pure stands in open areas - shade intolerant • smallest of the poplars, characteristic tremble even in slight breeze

  5. Eastern Cottonwood • (Populus deltoides) • fastest growing commercially used tree in North America • food source for massive Order of Leptidopterans (moths and butterflies) • can grow 40m in height and loves wet areas like river and stream banks

  6. Jack Pine • (Pinus banksiana) • grows in shallow soils on bedrock (likes alvar) • heat from alvar surface ‘limestone pavement’ thought to crack open cones for regeneration (usually fire) • limited to specific alvar conditions on the Peninsula

  7. Tamarack • (Larax laracina) • Also called larch, it has a deciduous habit of colour change and drops its needles all at once • prefers moist, boggy soils like sphagnum moss and peat beds • highly intolerant of shade and most commonly growing with black spruce

  8. White Ash • (Fraxinus americana) • very straight growing tree with a natural lifespan of 300 years • characteristic deeply grooved and regularly patterned bark • Deer, rabbits and beaver feed on this tree • prefers cool, moist habitats

  9. Eastern Hophornbeam • (Ostrya virginiana) • Grows well in a variety of soils • associated with maple-beech-birch climax forests • an understory tree with nutlets eaten by grouse and rabbits

  10. Eastern White Pine • (Pinus strobus) • soft needles in bunches of 5 and only a few old growth stands left in places like Temagami and Algonquin Park • tallest tree in eastern NA and provincial tree of Ontario • largely removed from the Peninsula for timber

  11. Red Pine • (Pinus resinosa) • soft needles in bunches of 2 or 3 • poor cover for animals but provides good nesting sites for many birds • largely removed from the Peninsula for timber

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