Howard County Champion Trees
Nominations
Do You Know a Champion Tree?
... a woodland titan that has withstood the test of time and towers regally above all else? Or spreads its limbs so wide as to shelter an entire herd of cattle?If so, please help us to identify and recognize these sleeping giants by nominating them for the official Howard County Champion Tree registry.
Visit the Maryland Forestry Board website for more information on the state Big Trees program.
The 2008 version of Howard County's Champion Tree book is now online!Howard County has a great variety of both native and exotic trees. The following trees have been elected Champions of their species. If you know of a more impressive specimen, you can nominate it right now.
| Tilia americana | |
| American Holly | Ilex opaca |
| Carpinus caroliniana | |
| Beech, American | Fagus grandifolia |
| Beech, Copper | Fagus sylvatica |
| Beech, Cutleaf | Fagus sylvatica grandidentata |
| Birch, Himalayan | Betula jacquemontii |
| Prunus serotina | |
| Black Gum | Nyssa sylvatica |
| Tilia americana | |
| Black Walnut | Juglans nigra |
| Salix nigra | |
| Boxelder | Acer negundo |
| Butternut | Juglans cinerea |
| Dawn Redwood | Metasequoia glyptostroboides |
| Cornus florida | |
| Catalpa | Catalpa speciosa |
| Prunus serrulata | |
| Prunus cerasifera | |
| Ginkgo | Ginkgo biloba |
| Laburnum x watereri | |
| Betula populifolia | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | |
| Alnus serrulata | |
| Hemlock, Eastern | Tsuga canadensis |
| Horsechestnut | Aesculus hippocastanum |
| Japanese Maple | Acer palmatum |
| Japanese Pagodatree | Sophora japonica |
| Cercidiphyllum japonicum | |
| Kentucky Coffeetree | Gymnocladus dioicus |
| Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan' | |
| European Linden | Tilia europaea |
| Tilia cordata | |
| Platanus x acerifolia | |
| Magnolia, Southern | Magnolia grandiflora |
| Norway Spruce | Picea abies |
| Osage Orange | Maclura pomifera |
| Acer grisium | |
| Persimmon | Diospyros virginiana |
| Quercus palustris | |
| Prunus cerasifera | |
| Cercis canadensis | |
| Aesculus pavia | |
| Acer rubrum | |
| Betula nigra | |
| Sassafras albidum | |
| Siberian Elm | Ulmus pumila |
| Silver Maple | Acer saccharinum |
| Sugar Maple | Acer saccharum |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | |
| Swamp White Oak | Quercus bicolor |
| Liriodendron tulipifera | |
| Umbrella Pine | Sciadopitys verticillata |
| Betula pendula | |
| Prunus subhirtella | |
| Salix babylonica | |
| White Ash | Fraxinus americana |
| Morus alba | |
| White Oak | Quercus alba |
| White Pine | Pinus strobus |
| Quercus phellos | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | |
| Wye Oak | Quercus alba |
| Cladrastis kentuckea | |
| Aesculus octandra | |