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.
Champion Trees
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 | |
| Prunus serotina | |
| Black Gum | Nyssa sylvatica |
| Tilia americana | |
| Juglans nigra | |
| Salix nigra | |
| Acer negundo | |
| Dawn Redwood | Metasequoia glyptostroboides |
| Cornus florida | |
| Prunus serrulata | |
| Prunus cerasifera | |
| Laburnum x watereri | |
| Betula populifolia | |
| Fraxinus pennsylvanica | |
| Alnus serrulata | |
| Japanese Maple | Acer palmatum |
| Sophora japonica | |
| Cercidiphyllum japonicum | |
| Kentucky Coffeetree | Gymnocladus dioicus |
| Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan' | |
| Tilia cordata | |
| Platanus x acerifolia | |
| Picea abies | |
| Maclura pomifera | |
| Acer grisium | |
| Quercus palustris | |
| Prunus cerasifera | |
| Cercis canadensis | |
| Aesculus pavia | |
| Acer rubrum | |
| Betula nigra | |
| Sassafras albidum | |
| Acer saccharinum | |
| Sugar Maple | Acer saccharum |
| Liquidambar styraciflua | |
| Liriodendron tulipifera | |
| Umbrella Pine | Sciadopitys verticillata |
| Betula pendula | |
| Prunus subhirtella | |
| Salix babylonica | |
| Fraxinus americana | |
| Morus alba | |
| Pinus strobus | |
| Quercus alba | |
| Quercus phellos | |
| Hamamelis virginiana | |
| Cladrastis kentuckea | |
| Aesculus octandra | |