YELLOWSTONE ARBORETUM
" Stewards of the Natural Environment "
Billings, Montana @ ZooMontana
VARIOUS SPECIES
Bear Meadows & Beyond
GPS 45D 43' 47" N / 108D 37' 22" W
The following specimens are non-accessioned and all located in the Bear Meadows area. More info forthcoming.
Pinus nigra, the Austrian pine or black pine, is a moderately variable species of pine, occurring across southern Mediterranean Europe from Spain to the eastern Mediterranean on Anatolian peninsula of Turkey and on Corsica/Cyprus, including Crimea, and in the high mountains of the Maghreb in North Africa. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Pinus nigra
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population stable) Encyclopedia of Life
Higher classification: Pinus
Location: Z22 / Number in accession: 7
Populus tremuloides is a deciduous tree native to cooler areas of North America, one of several species referred to by the common name aspen. It is commonly called quaking aspen, trembling aspen, American aspen, Quakies, mountain or golden aspen, trembling poplar, white poplar, popple, as well as others. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Populus tremuloides
Higher classification: Populus sect. Populus
Location: Z24 / Number in accession: Multiple
This 45 inch Austrian pine provides overall benefits of: $71 every year.
This 25 inch Quaking aspen provides overall benefits of: $110 every year.
Junipers are coniferous plants in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae. Depending on taxonomic viewpoint, between 50 and 67 species of junipers are widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere, from the Arctic, south to tropical Africa, from Ziarat, Pakistan, east to eastern Tibet in the Old World, and in the mountains of Central America. The highest-known juniper forest occurs at an altitude of 16,000 ft (4,900 m) in southeastern Tibet and the northern Himalayas, creating one of the highest tree-lines on earth.
Location: Z21 / Number in accession: 3
This 14 inch Juniper provides overall benefits of: $45 every year.
The blue spruce, green spruce, white spruce, Colorado spruce, or Colorado blue spruce, with the Latin name Picea pungens, is a species of spruce tree. It is native to Canada and the United States, and is found in growing zones 1 through 7. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Picea pungens
Family: Pinaceae
Order: Pinales
Class: Pinopsida
Kingdom: Plantae
Location: Z25 / Number in accession: 2
This 20 inch Blue spruce provides overall benefits of: $110 every year.
Pinus ponderosa, commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, or western yellow-pine, is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to the western United States and Canada. It is the most widely distributed pine species in North America. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Pinus ponderosa
Rank: Species
Higher classification: Pinus
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population stable)
Symbol of: Montana
Location: Z26 / Number in accession: 3
This 17 inch Ponderosa pine provides overall benefits of: $102 every year.
Pinus mugo, known as creeping pine, dwarf mountainpine, mugo pine,mountain pine, scrub mountain pine or Swiss mountain pine,is a species of conifer, native to high elevation habitats from southwestern to Central Europe
Location: Z27 / Number in accession: 1
Multi-stemmed-no valuation
Other Mugo Pines are located west of this specimen along Lynx Pathway