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List of inventoried conifers in the United States

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Reference excerpt

Silvics of North America (1991), a forest inventory compiled and published by the United States Forest Service, includes many conifers. It superseded Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States (1965), which was the first extensive American tree inventory. A variety of statistics on all of these trees are maintained by the National Plant Data Team of the US Department of Agriculture. All of the conifers in the inventory except the larches and some bald cypresses are evergreens. Apart from two species in the yew family, all are in either the pine family (including firs, larches, spruces, pines, Douglas firs and hemlocks) or the cypress family (including junipers, redwoods, giant sequoias, bald cypresses and four genera of cedars). Softwood from North American conifers has a variety of commercial uses. The sturdier timber is milled for plywood, wood veneer and construction framing, including structural support beams and studs. Logs can be fashioned into posts, poles and railroad ties. Less sturdy timber is often ground and processed into pulpwood, principally for papermaking. Resins from sap yield wood tar, turpentine or other terpenes. Some resins and other tree products contain dangerous toxins (not generally listed below).

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West of the Mississippi River: AK Alaska AR Arkansas AZ Arizona CA California CO Colorado IA Iowa ID Idaho KS Kansas LA Louisiana MN Minnesota MO Missouri MT Montana ND North Dakota NE Nebraska NM New Mexico NV Nevada OK Oklahoma OR Oregon SD South Dakota TX Texas UT Utah WA Washington WY Wyoming. (Hawaii is not associated with any conifer species in the 1991 inventory.) These can be divided into:

The continental Western states: AK AZ CA CO ID MT NM NV OR UT WA WY The South Central states: AR LA OK TX The Midwestern states west of the Mississippi (including MN, which is mostly west or north of the river), also called the western Midwest: IA KS MN MO ND NE SD East of the Mississippi: AL Alabama CT Connecticut DE Delaware FL Florida GA Georgia IL Illinois IN Indiana KY Kentucky MA Massachusetts MD Maryland ME Maine MI Michigan MS Mississippi NC North Carolina NH New Hampshire NJ New Jersey NY New York OH Ohio PA Pennsylvania RI Rhode Island TN Tennessee VA Virginia VT Vermont WI Wisconsin WV West Virginia These can be divided into:

New England: CT MA ME NH RI VT The Mid-Atlantic: DE MD NJ NY PA VA WV The Southeast: AL FL GA KY MS NC SC TN The Midwestern states east of the Mississippi, also called the eastern Midwest: IL IN MI OH WI

Conifers

See also List of gymnosperm families List of inventoried conifers in Canada List of inventoried hardwoods in the United States

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In the classroom: List of inventoried conifers in the United States is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Conifers, Forests of the United States, Lists of plants, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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