Trees
1.Common Name: Oak Tree Scientific Name: Quercus Location: Oak trees are located in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and in Africa Niche: The main role of an Oak tree is to provide shelter for animals and to provide oxygen to animals. Life Cycle: An Oak tree can live from 80 years to an increasing amount of 600 years. Gestation: The gestation period of Oak trees takes about 2-4 weeks. 2.Common Name: Crape Myrtle Scientific Name: Lagerstroemia Location: The Crape Myrtle is located in North America, southeast Asia, and in parts of Europe. But the CRape Myrtle is famously known in McKinney,Tx. Niche: The Crape Myrtle is mainly used for landscaping because of its year-round landscape interest. Life Cycle: A Crape Myrtle’s life span can exceed 50 years. Gestation: The gestation period of Crape Myrtle’s is usually 120 days 3.Common Name: Pecan Tree Scientific Name: Carya illinoiensis Location: The Pecan tree can be found in Mexico and the south central/southeastern parts of the United States. Niche: The main job of the Pecan tree is to provide food for animals with the pecans that grow off of it. Life Cycle: The lifespan of a Pecan tree can be in the range of 50-70 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a Pecan tree is usually 4-8 weeks. 4.Common Name: Willow tree Scientific Name: Salix Location: Willow trees are located around just about any body of water. Niche: The Willow tree’s main niche is to provide shade to animals. Life cycle: A Willow tree has a lifespan of 50-70 years. Gestation: Willow tree seeds must be broken for them to start germination. If they aren’t broken they will not germinate. 5.Common Name: Pine Tree Scientific Name: Pinus Location: The Pine tree is widely found all around the United States. Niche: Pine trees have the niche of maintaining the watershed health and maintaining the wildlife habitat of an ecosystem. LIfe Cycle: Pine trees have a longer lifespan than most trees of 300-500 years. Gestation: The gestation period of Pine trees is usually 90 days. 6.Common Name: Elm Tree Scientific Name: Ulmus americana Location: The Elm tree is found in parts of the United States, Europe, and Australia. Niche: Elm trees provide shelter to other plants and some species of animals. Life Cycle: Elm trees don’t have a very long lifespan of 40-50 years. Gestation: Elm trees have a shorter gestation period compared to others of 6-12 days. 7.Common Name: Chinaberry Tree Scientific Name: Melia azedarach Location: Chinaberry trees are mainly found in the southern parts of the United States. Niche: The Chinaberry’s role is to provide shade for other living organisms. Life Cycle: A Chinaberry tree, on average, will live for 40-150 years. Gestation: A Chinaberry’s gestation time can be 1-3 months. 8.Common Name: Cedar Tree Scientific Name: Juniperus ashei Location: A Cedar tree will be found in northern Mexico and the south central United States. Niche: Cedar trees provide a nesting area for several different species of birds. Life Cycle: A Cedar tree’s lifespan is approximately 100 years. Gestation: Cedar trees have a longer gestation period of 18 months. 9.Common Name: Redbud Tree Scientific Name: Cercis canadensis Location: A Redbud is mostly located in eastern parts of the United States, but extends into Texas. Niche: Redbuds attract organisms such as bees to help benefit other plant organisms around them. Life Cycle: A Redbud has an average lifespan of 50-70 years. Gestation: The Redbud has a gestation time of 4 weeks. 10.Common Name: Bald Cypress Tree Scientific Name: Taxodium distichum Location: The Bald Cypress is located in the southern United States, but will be found in North Carolina and California. Niche: The Bald Cypress is used for shading and canopy closure in mosquito control programs. Life Cycle: The average lifespan of a Bald Cypress is 600 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a Bald Cypress is 90 days. 11.Common Name: SweetGum Tree Scientific Name: Liquidambar styraciflua Location: The Sweetgum is located in the eastern United States, some areas of Mexico, and in Central America. Niche: The roles of a Sweetgum is to provide cover for many birds and mammals, and to provide food to animals such as caterpillars. Life Cycle: A Sweetgum tree has an expected lifespan of over 60 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a sweetgum is 2-4 weeks. 12.Common Name: Cottonwood Tree Scientific Name: Populus deltoides Location: The Cottonwood tree can be found in all countries in North America. Niche: The Cottonwood tree has a unique niche of allowing birds not having to build nests, because they already have hollowed out holes in them. Life Cycle: The Cottonwood tree has an expected lifespan of 40-50 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a Cottonwood tree can be as little as five days to four weeks. 13.Common Name: Sweet Acacia Tree Scientific Name: Acacia smallii Location: The Sweet Acacia is native to North America, but has been spread to northern Australia and southeast Asia. Niche: The Sweet Acacia is used for shading because the areas it’s mostly in are hot and dry. Life Cycle: The Sweet Acacia has a relatively short life of 12-18 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a Sweet Acacia is about 3-4 weeks. 14.Common Name: Sumac Tree Scientific Name: Rhus lanceolata Location: The Sumac tree is found in temperate regions of the world, especially east Asia, Africa, and North America. Niche: The Sumac tree is very important to habitat restoration in an environment. Life Cycle: The Sumac will live approximately 20-60 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a Sumac is 2-4 weeks. 15.Common Name: Buckeye Tree Scientific Name: Aesculus glabra Location: The Buckeye tree is located in the central United States and in some parts of Canada. Niche: A niche of the Buckeye tree is to provide food for animal species with the nuts that grow from its branches. Life Cycle: The Buckeye tree can live up to 80-100 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a Buckeye tree can be in a range of 60-120 days. 16.Common Name: Buttonwood Tree Scientific Name: Conocarpus erectus Location: The Buttonwood tree is located in subtropical regions all across the world (South America, Bahamas, North America, etc.). Niche: The Buttonwood tree’s niche benefits other plants around it by helping filtering out bad salts in the surrounding water. Life Cycle: The Buttonwood tree will usually live for about 40-80 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a Buttonwood tree can be any where from 2-4 weeks. 17.Common Name: Buckthorn Tree Scientific Name: Rhamnus cathartica Location: The Buckthorn tree is native to east Asia and North America, but is also found in parts of Africa and South America. Niche: The Buckthorn tree helps re-fertilize the soil for its environment. Life Cycle: The Buckthorn tree has a very short lifespan and it has not been determined on an average. Gestation: The gestation period of a Buckthorn tree on average is 30-60 days. 18.Common Name: Douglas Fir Tree Scientific Name: Pseudotsuga menziesii Location: The Douglas fir is native to western North America, but is found in different parts of the United states. Niche: The Douglas Fir helps make the soil more fertile because of its relation with thousands of different species of fungi. Life Cycle: The lifespan of a Douglas Fir is much larger than most other trees as it lives for 500-1,000 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a douglas Fir takes about 6 weeks. 19.Common Name: Fringe Tree Scientific Name: Chionanthus virginicus Location: The Fringe tree is located all over the southeastern United States. Niche: The Fringe tree helps bring new species to an ecosystem because of its flowers, which brings many different species of insects. Life Cycle: The Fringe tree has a typical lifespan of 25 years. Gestation: The gestation of a Fringe tree can begin within 10-14 days, or take as long as 3-4 weeks. 20.Common Name: Hackberry Tree Scientific Name: Celtis occidentalis Location: The Hackberry tree is a native of North America, which is the only place it’s found. Niche: The Hackberry tree is an important source of food for the animals in its surroundings. Larger animals feed on foliage, while birds and smaller mammals feed on its fruit. Life Cycle: The Hackberry tree can survive up to 150-200 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a Hackberry tree is 60 days. 22.Common Name: Hickory Tree Scientific Name: Carya ovata Location: The Hickory tree is native to the United States, but is also found in Canada and Mexico. Niche: The Hickory tree serves as a great habitat to small mammal species and birds. Life Cycle: The Hickory tree, on average, has a lifespan of 200-250 years. Gestation: Hickory trees has a gestation period of 44-46 days. 23.Common Name: Magnolia Tree Scientific Name: Magnolia grandiflora Location: A Magnolia tree will be found in southeast Asia, North America, South America, the West Indies, and Central America. Niche: Magnolia trees have the ability to greatly provide shade for animals, and people. Life Cycle: The Magnolia tree can live from 80 up to 100 years. Gestation: A Magnolia tree has a gestation period of 5-14 days. 24.Common Name: Honey Mesquite Tree Scientific Name: Prosopis glandulosa Location: Honey Mesquite trees are primarily native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, which is where it’s found. Niche: The Honey Mesquite has a role for humans, the juice from it’s leaves help with eye irritation. Life Cycle: A Honey Mesquite tree has an average life expectancy of 100-175 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a Honey Mesquite tree is usually 2-6 weeks long. 25.Common Name: Walnut Tree Scientific Name: Juglans Location: The infamous Walnut tree can be found all over the United States and in Ontario, Canada. Niche: The Walnut tree is a great supplier of food for animals in the area it’s in. Life Cycle: A Walnut tree has an average lifespan of 80-130 years. Gestation: The gestation period of Walnut trees is usually occurs in 4-5 weeks. 26.Common Name: Red Mulberry Tree Scientific Name: Morus rubra Location: Red Mulberry trees are found in eastern and central North America. Niche: The Red Mulberry tree feeds other animals with its fruit and fertilizes the soil when its fruit falls to the ground. Life Cycle: A Red Mulberry tree will live for 50 years, but you will rarely see one that lives past 75 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a Red Mulberry tree is approximately 14 days |
Flowers/Bushes
27.Common Name: Texas Dandelion
Scientific Name: Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus Location: The Texas Dandelion is found in parts all over northeastern Texas. Niche: Insects and mammals eat it, and small birds eat the seeds it holds. Life Cycle: The Texas Dandelion will live at a maximum of 3 years. Gestation: The gestation period of a Texas Dandelion takes about 85 to 95 days. 28.Common Name: Grass Scientific Name: Vaseyochloa multinervosa Location: Grass is found all around/across the world. Niche: Grass is a food source to some species of animal, and also is what mainly hold the soil together to reduce erosion. Life Cycle: Grass can live for 35 years if its needs are met by the environment. Gestation: The gestation period of the grass seed ranges from 5 to 30 days. 29.Common Name: Clover Scientific Name: Lespedeza texana Location: The Clover will be found in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, but is also found in South America and Africa. Niche: The niche of a clover is to give oxygen to animals in its environment and being a food source for animals. Life Cycle: Clovers are annual plants that come back after living for a year. Gestation: The gestation period of a clover is approximately 1 week. 30.Common Name: Sunflower Scientific Name: Helianthus praecox Location: Sunflowers are located in the southern parts of the United States. Niche: Since the Sunflower is a large and bright colored flower, it attracts bees to help benefit the flowers around it by them getting pollinated also. Life Cycle: Sunflowers are annuals, which means that they die and come back up every year. Gestation: The gestation period of a sunflower takes 5 to 12 days after being planted. 31.Common Name: Honeysuckle Scientific Name: Lonicera albiflora Location: The Honeysuckle can be found in the southeastern United States. Niche: Honeysuckles give nectar to hummingbirds and bees. They can also be a food source to other animals. Life Cycle: On average, Honeysuckles live for 20 years. Gestation: The gestation period for Honeysuckles is 11-13 days. 32.Common Name: Strawberry Scientific Name: Fragaria vesca Location: Strawberries are grown in all 50 states in the United States. Niche: The Strawberry is especially used as a food source for animals and humans. Life Cycle: Strawberry plants will produce strawberries and then die in 3-4 years. Gestation: Strawberries have a gestation period of 3 weeks. 33.Common Name: Blackberry Scientific Name: Rubus arvensis Location: Just like strawberries, blackberries are grown in all 50 states of the United States. Niche: The main niche of Blackberries is to be a food source to animals and humans. Life Cycle: A Blackberry bush/vine will live for 15-20 years. Gestation: Blackberry seeds have a gestation period of 2-4 weeks. |