F.T. Proctor Park: Ecology

A diverse array of over 1500 trees beautifies this popular park, notably: American ash, American basswood, American beech, American elm, American linden, Austrian pine, butternut hickory, black cherry, black walnut, blue beech, boxelder, burning bush, choke cherry, eastern hemlock, eastern redbud, eastern white cedar, eastern white pine, English oak, flowering crabapple, gingko, green ash, hawthorn, heritage oak, honey locust, hophornbeam, hornbeam, ironwood, Japanese lilac, katsura, largeleaf linden, little leaf linden, Lombardy poplar, mockernut hickory, northern catalpa, Norway maple, Norway spruce, ornamental pear, pin cherry, red maple, red oak, red spruce, saucer magnolia, shagbark hickory, silver maple, slippery elm, sugar maple, sweet cherry, sycamore, triumph elm, tulip tree, white ash, white oak, witch-hazel, and yellow birch. A variety of native shrubs, perennials and both native and non-native grasses may be found in the park’s woods and open marshes.