Find the basic specific gravity of North American trees. Searchable list with common and binomial names of trees found in North America.
basic specific gravity = green volume and oven-dry weight
Common Name | Binomial | Basic Specific Gravity | Region |
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Ailanthus / Tree Of Heaven | Ailanthus altissima | 0.46 | North America |
Alder, Red | Alnus rubra | 0.37 | North America |
Alder, White / Rhombie Leaf | Alnus rhombifolia | 0.37 | North America |
American Hornbeam / Musclewood | Carpinus caroliniana | 0.58 | North America |
American Witch-Hazel | Hamamelis virginiana | 0.56 | North America |
Apple / Common / Wild | Malus sylvestris | 0.61 | North America |
Ash, Biltmore / White | Fraxinus americana | 0.55 | North America |
Ash, Black | Fraxinus nigra | 0.45 | North America |
Ash, Blue / Virginia | Fraxinus quadrangulata | 0.53 | North America |
Ash, Green / Bastard | Fraxinus pennsylvanica | 0.53 | North America |
Ash, Oregon / Water | Fraxinus latifolia | 0.5 | North America |
Ash, Pumpkin / Red | Fraxinus profunda | 0.48 | North America |
Aspen, Bigtooth / Large-tooth | Populus grandidentata | 0.36 | North America |
Aspen, Quaking / Trembling / Aspen Popular | Populus tremuloides | 0.35 | North America |
Bald Cypress / Swamp / Gulf / Red / Southern / White / Yellow | Taxodium distichum | 0.42 | North America |
Basswood, American / American Linden | Tilia americana | 0.32 | North America |
Basswood, White | Tilia heterophylla | 0.32 | North America |
Beech / American / North American | Fagus grandifolia | 0.56 | North America |
Birch, Alaska Paper | Betula neoalaskana | 0.529515 | North America |
Birch, Gray | Betula populifolia | 0.45 | North America |
Birch, Paper | Betula papyrifera | 0.48 | North America |
Birch, River | Betula nigra | 0.49 | North America |
Birch, Sweet | Betula lenta | 0.6 | North America |
Birch, Yellow / Black | Betula alleghaniensis | 0.55 | North America |
Bird Cherry / Fire Cherry / Pin Cherry | Prunus pensylvanica | 0.36 | North America |
Blue Elderberry / Blue Elder | Sambucus caerulea | 0.46 | North America |
Buckeye, Yellow / Sweet | Aesculus octandra | 0.33 | North America |
Buckthorn, California Coffeeberry | Rhamnus californica | 0.5 | North America |
Buckthorn, Cascara | Rhamnus purshiana | 0.5 | North America |
Buckthorn, Spiny Redberry | Rhamnus crocea | 0.75 | North America |
Bully Trees | Sideroxylon indet | 1.234 | North America |
Butternut / White Walnut | Juglans cinerea | 0.36 | North America |
Buttonwood / Button Mangrove | Conocarpus erectus | 0.69 | North America |
Canadian Serviceberry | Amelanchier canadensis | 0.66 | North America |
Carolina Silverbell / Little Silverbell | Halesia carolina | 0.42 | North America |
Catalpa, Northern / Hardy / Western / Cigar Tree / Catawba Tree | Catalpa speciosa | 0.38 | North America |
Cedar, Atlantic White | Chamaecyparis thyoides | 0.31 | North America |
Cedar, Eastern Redcedar | Juniperus virginiana | 0.44 | North America |
Cedar, Incense | Calocedrus decurrens | 0.35 | North America |
Cedar, Northern White / Arborvitae / Eastern Arborvitae / Swamp | Thuja occidentalis | 0.29 | North America |
Cedar, Port-Orford | Chamaecyparis lawsoniana | 0.39 | North America |
Cedar, Westernred / Pacific Red / Giant Arborvitae / Canoe / Giant/ Shinglewood | Thuja plicata | 0.31 | North America |
Cedar, Yellow / Alaska | Chamaecyparis nootkatensis | 0.42 | North America |
Cherry, Black | Prunus serotina | 0.47 | North America |
Chestnut, American | Castanea dentata | 0.4 | North America |
Chinkapin, Giant / Golden | Chrysolepis chrysophylla | 0.42 | North America |
Chinquapin / Golden / Giant / Western | Castanopsis chrysophylla | 0.42 | North America |
Cottonwood, Black | Populus trichocarpa | 0.31 | North America |
Cottonwood, Eastern / Eastern / Plains / MatchPoplar | Populus deltoides | 0.37 | North America |
Cottonwood, Fremont / Alamo | Populus fremontii | 0.41 | North America |
Dogwood, Flowering | Cornus florida | 0.64 | North America |
Dogwood, Pacific / Mountain Dogwood | Cornus nuttallii | 0.58 | North America |
Douglas-Fir, Coast | Pseudotsuga menziesii | 0.453333333 | North America |
Douglas-Fir, Interior North | Pseudotsuga menziesii | 0.45 | North America |
Douglas-Fir, Interior West | Pseudotsuga menziesii | 0.46 | North America |
Elm, American / White / Water / Florida | Ulmus americana | 0.46 | North America |
Elm, Rock, Elm Cork | Ulmus thomasii | 0.57 | North America |
Elm, Slippery / Red / Gray / Soft | Ulmus rubra | 0.48 | North America |
Elm, Texas Cedar / Cedar Elm | Ulmus crassifolia | 0.59 | North America |
Elm, Winged / Wahoo | Ulmus alata | 0.6 | North America |
False Mastic / Yellow Mastic | Sideroxylon foetidissimum | 0.52 | North America |
Fir, Balsam / Canadian / Canada / Balm of Gilead / Eastern | Abies balsamea | 0.33 | North America |
Fir, Corkbark | Abies arizonica | 0.29 | North America |
Fir, Grand / Lowland / Lowland White / White / Silver | Abies grandis | 0.35 | North America |
Fir, Noble | Abies procera | 0.37 | North America |
Fir, Pacific Silver / White / Red/ Lovely / Amabilis / Cascades | Abies amabilis | 0.4 | North America |
Fir, Red / Golden / California Red / Shasta / Silvertip | Abies magnifica | 0.36 | North America |
Fir, Subalpine / Alpine / Mountain Balsam / Rocky Mountain / White Balsam | Abies lasiocarpa | 0.31 | North America |
Fir, White / Colorado / California White / Low's | Abies concolor | 0.37 | North America |
Florida Strangler Fig / Golden Fig/ Higuerón | Ficus aurea | 0.44 | North America |
Great Laurel / Rosebay Rhododendron | Rhododendron maximum | 0.5 | North America |
Gumbo-Limbo / Copperwood / Chaca | Bursera simaruba | 0.32 | North America |
Hackberry | Celtis occidentalis | 0.49 | North America |
Hawthorn, Late / Pear | Crataegus calpodendron | 0.62 | North America |
Hemlock, Eastern / Canada / Hemlock Spruce | Tsuga canadensis | 0.38 | North America |
Hemlock, Mountain | Tsuga mertensiana | 0.42 | North America |
Hemlock, Western / Pacific / West Coast | Tsuga heterophylla | 0.42 | North America |
Hickory, Bitternut / Swamp | Carya cordiformis | 0.6 | North America |
Hickory, Mockernut / White / White-Heart | Carya tomentosa | 0.64 | North America |
Hickory, Nutmeg | Carya myristiciformis | 0.56 | North America |
Hickory, Pecan | Carya illinoensis | 0.6 | North America |
Hickory, Pignut | Carya glabra | 0.66 | North America |
Hickory, True, Shagbark | Carya ovata | 0.64 | North America |
Hickory, True, Shellbark | Carya laciniosa | 0.62 | North America |
Hickory, Water / Bitter Pecan | Carya aquatica | 0.61 | North America |
Holly, American / White Holly | Ilex opaca | 0.5 | North America |
Hollyleaf Cherry / Evergreen Cherry | Prunus ilicifolia | 0.73 | North America |
Honey Locust / Honey Shucks / Sweet Bean | Gleditsia triacanthos | 0.6 | North America |
Hophornbeam, American / Eastern | Ostrya virginiana | 0.63 | North America |
Incense Cedar / California Incense-Cedar | Libocedrus decurrens | 0.35 | North America |
Inkwood / Butterbough | Exothea paniculata | 0.73 | North America |
Juniper, Alligator / Checkerbark | Juniperus deppeana | 0.48 | North America |
Juniper, Western | Juniperus occidentalis | 0.45 | North America |
Kentucky Coffeetree | Gymnocladus dioicus | 0.53 | North America |
Larch, Western / Montana / Mountain | Larix occidentalis | 0.48 | North America |
Laurel, California / Oregon Myrtle | Umbellularia californica | 0.51 | North America |
Locust, Black / False Acacia / Green / Locust / Shipmast / White / Yellow | Robinia pseudoacacia | 0.66 | North America |
Madrone, Pacific | Arbutus menziesii | 0.57 | North America |
Magnolia, Cucumbertree / Blue Magnolia | Magnolia acuminata | 0.44 | North America |
Magnolia, Fraser / Mountain Magnolia | Magnolia fraseri | 0.4 | North America |
Magnolia, Southern | Magnolia grandiflora | 0.46 | North America |
Magnolia, Sweetbay | Magnolia virginiana | 0.42 | North America |
Maple, Bigleaf / British Columbia / Broadleaf / Oregon | Acer macrophyllum | 0.44 | North America |
Maple, Black / Black Sugar / Hard / Rock | Acer nigrum | 0.52 | North America |
Maple, Boxelder / Ash-Leaf / Manitoba / Three-Leave | Acer negundo | 0.416 | North America |
Maple, Red / Scarlet / Soft / Water | Acer rubrum | 0.49 | North America |
Maple, Silver | Acer saccharinum | 0.44 | North America |
Maple, Striped / Goosefoot / Moosewood / Snake Bark | Acer pensylvanicum | 0.44 | North America |
Maple, Sugar | Acer saccharum | 0.56 | North America |
Mesquite Spp. | Prosopis spp. | 0.78 | North America |
Mountain Laurel / Calico-Bush / Spoonwood | Kalmia latifolia | 0.62 | North America |
Mountain Mahogany / Birch Leaf Mountain Mahogany | Cercocarpus betuloides | 0.8 | North America |
Oak, Arizona White / Arizona | Quercus Arizonica | 0.59 | North America |
Oak, Bastard White | Quercus austrina | 0.75 | North America |
Oak, Black / Eastern Black | Quercus velutina | 0.56 | North America |
Oak, Bluejack / Upland Willow Oak / Sandjack Oak / Cinnamon Oak | Quercus incana | 0.71 | North America |
Oak, Bur / Mossy-Cup | Quercus macrocarpa | 0.58 | North America |
Oak, California Black / Kellogg Oak | Quercus kelloggii | 0.51 | North America |
Oak, Canyon Live / Canyon Oak / Maul Oak | Quercus chrysolepis | 0.7 | North America |
Oak, Chapman | Quercus chapmanii | 0.78 | North America |
Oak, Cherrybark | Quercus pagoda | 0.61 | North America |
Oak, Chestnut / Rock / Rock Chestnut / Mountain | Quercus prinus | 0.57 | North America |
Oak, Darlington / Laurel-Leaf Oak | Quercus hemisphaerica | 0.69 | North America |
Oak, Dwarf Live / Minimal | Quercus minima | 0.89 | North America |
Oak, Gambel / Rocky Mountain White / Colorado Scrub | Quercus gambelii | 0.62 | North America |
Oak, Garry / Oregon White Oak / Oregon Oak | Quercus garryana | 0.64 | North America |
Oak, Laurel / Diamond-Leaf Oak / Water Oak | Quercus laurifolia | 0.56 | North America |
Oak, Live / Southern Live | Quercus virginiana | 0.8 | North America |
Oak, Myrtle / Shrubby | Quercus myrtifolia | 0.807 | North America |
Oak, Northern Red | Quercus rubra | 0.56 | North America |
Oak, Overcup | Quercus lyrata | 0.57 | North America |
Oak, Pin / Swamp Spanish | Quercus palustris | 0.58 | North America |
Oak, Post / Iron | Quercus stellata | 0.6 | North America |
Oak, Running / Runner | Quercus pumila | 0.71 | North America |
Oak, Sand Live | Quercus geminata | 0.872 | North America |
Oak, Sand Post | Quercus margaretta | 0.76 | North America |
Oak, Scarlet | Quercus coccinea | 0.6 | North America |
Oak, Shumard / Swamp Red / Shumard Red | Quercus shumardii | 0.64 | North America |
Oak, Southern Red | Quercus falcata | 0.52 | North America |
Oak, Swamp Chestnut / Basket | Quercus michauxii | 0.6 | North America |
Oak, Swamp White | Quercus bicolor | 0.64 | North America |
Oak, Turkey / Catesby / American Turkey | Quercus laevis | 0.639 | North America |
Oak, Water | Quercus nigra | 0.56 | North America |
Oak, White | Quercus alba | 0.6 | North America |
Oak, Willow | Quercus phellos | 0.56 | North America |
Ocean Spray / Creambush / Ironwood | Holodiscus discolor | 0.71 | North America |
Osage Orange / Horse Apple / Hedge Apple | Maclura pomifera | 0.76 | North America |
Paradise Apple / Common Apple | Malus pumila | 0.64575 | North America |
Persimmon, Common | Diospyros virginiana | 0.64 | North America |
Pine / Gray / California Foothill Bull / Grey-leaf / Digger | Pinus sabiniana | 0.4 | North America |
Pine, Bishop / Obispo / Swamp / Prickle-Cone | Pinus muricata | 0.45 | North America |
Pine, Common / Two Needle Pinyon | Pinus edulis | 0.5 | North America |
Pine, Coulter / Big-Cone Pine | Pinus coulteri | 0.4 | North America |
Pine, Eastern White / Northern White / Weymouth / White | Pinus strobus | 0.34 | North America |
Pine, Gray / California Foothill | Pinus, sabiniana | 0.4 | North America |
Pine, Jack / Banksian / Black / Scrub | Pinus banksiana | 0.4 | North America |
Pine, Jeffrey / Black | Pinus jeffreyi | 0.37 | North America |
Pine, Knobcone / Narrowcone | Pinus attenuata | 0.39 | North America |
Pine, Limber / Rocky Mountain White | Pinus flexilis | 0.37 | North America |
Pine, Loblolly / Frankincense / Oldfield / Southern | Pinus taeda | 0.47 | North America |
Pine, Lodgepole / Bolander Beach / Shore / Tamarack Pine | Pinus contorta | 0.38 | North America |
Pine, Longleaf / Florida / Georgia | Pinus palustris | 0.54 | North America |
Pine, Monterey / Cedros Island / Guadalupe Island / Radiata / Insignis | Pinus radiata | 0.4 | North America |
Pine, Pitch / Hard | Pinus rigida | 0.47 | North America |
Pine, Pond / Bay / Marsh / Pocosin | Pinus serotina | 0.51 | North America |
Pine, Ponderosa / Western Yellow / Blackjack / Bull / Pacific Ponderosa / Rock | Pinus ponderosa | 0.38 | North America |
Pine, Red / American Red / Canadian Red / Norway | Pinus resinosa | 0.41 | North America |
Pine, Sand | Pinus clausa | 0.46 | North America |
Pine, Shortleaf / Arkansas / Shortstraw / Southern / Yellow | Pinus echinata | 0.47 | North America |
Pine, Slash / American Pitch / Caribbean / Salish / Longleaf Pitch / Swamp | Pinus elliottii | 0.54 | North America |
Pine, Spruce / Bottom White / Cedar/ Poor / Walter | Pinus glabra | 0.41 | North America |
Pine, Sugar / California Sugar | Pinus lambertiana | 0.34 | North America |
Pine, Table Mountain / Hickory / Prickley | Pinus pungens | 0.49 | North America |
Pine, Virginia / Jersey / Poverty / Scrub | Pinus virginiana | 0.45 | North America |
Pine, Western White / Idaho White / Mountain White / Silver | Pinus monticola | 0.35 | North America |
Pond Apple, Alligator Apple | Annona glabra | 0.5 | North America |
Poplar, Abele / Silver Poplar / Silverleaf Poplar | Populus alba | 0.36 | North America |
Poplar, Balsam / Black / Hackmatack | Populus balsamifera | 0.31 | North America |
Poplar-Yellow / American Tulip / Canary Whitewood | Liriodendron tulipifera | 0.4 | North America |
Redberry Stopper | Eugenia confusa | 0.81 | North America |
Redwood / California / Coast | Sequoia sempervirens | 0.38 | North America |
Redwood, Giant / California Big-Tree / Giant Sequoia / Sequoia / Sierra | Sequoiadendron giganteum | 0.34 | North America |
Sassafras | Sassafras albidum | 0.42 | North America |
Serviceberry | Amelanchier spp. | 0.66 | North America |
Sour Gum / Tupelo, Black | Nyssa sylvatica | 0.46 | North America |
Sourwood / Sorrel Tree | Oxydendrum arboreum | 0.5 | North America |
Southern Redcedar | Juniperus silicicola | 0.42 | North America |
Spruce, Black / Bog / shortleaf black / Swamp | Picea mariana | 0.38 | North America |
Spruce, Engelmann / White Spruce / Mountain Spruce / Silver Spruce | Picea engelmannii | 0.33 | North America |
Spruce, Red / Eastern / West Virginia | Picea rubens | 0.37 | North America |
Spruce, Sitka / Coast / Menzies / Western | Picea sitchensis | 0.37 | North America |
Spruce, White / Alberta / Black Hills / Canada / Western White | Picea glauca | 0.33 | North America |
Sugarberry / Southern Hackberry | Celtis laevigata | 0.47 | North America |
Sweetgum, American / American Storax / Hazel Pine / Satin-Walnut / Alligatorwood | Liquidambar styraciflua | 0.46 | North America |
Sycamore, American / American Planetree | Platanus occidentalis | 0.46 | North America |
Tamarack / Hackmatack / American Larch Alaskan / Eastern | Larix laricina | 0.49 | North America |
Tanoak / Tanbark-Oak | Lithocarpus densiflorus | 0.58 | North America |
Texas Walnut / Little Walnut | Juglans microcarpa | 0.53 | North America |
Tupelo, Water / Cottongum / Wild Olive / Large Tupelo | Nyssa aquatica | 0.46 | North America |
Walnut, Black | Juglans nigra | 0.51 | North America |
White Bully / Willow Bustic / Bustic Cassada | Sideroxylon salicifolium | 0.86 | North America |
Willow, Black / Black American | Salix nigra | 0.36 | North America |
Willow, Pacific | Salix lasiandra | 0.39 | North America |
Yew, Pacific / Western / Canadian / Californian | Taxus brevifolia | 0.6 | North America |