Most Important Species as Voted by the Members
Recently, CTPA Members were asked to indicate the 10 species which they consider to be the most important in Connecticut. The following is the list of species they chose, followed by the percentage of the number of ballots in which that particular type of tree was listed.
(to read how the count was made and the raw numbers, please click here)
- Sugar Maple (71%)
- Eastern Hemlock (69%)
- White Oak (56%)
- Flowering Dogwood (54%)
- Red Oak (54%)
- White Ash (54%)
- White Birch (51%)
- Eastern White Pine (44%)
- Apple / Crabapple (39%)
- American Elm (34%)
- Red Maple (32%)
- American Sycamore (27%)
- American Beech (25%)
- Norway Maple (22%)
- Shagbark Hickory (22%)
How the Survey was conducted:
When returning their dues form, members were asked to indicate the 10 tree species upon which they work that they considered to be most important in Connecticut. One hundred and nineteen of the dues forms that were returned listed trees. In many cases, the listing was more general than species for instance, maple and hemlock were listed on many of the forms returned. This required some interpretation in the compiling of the results. Also, in tallying the votes, stopping at 10 trees seemed somewhat arbitrary a list of 15 trees seemed to catch the results more effectively. Finally, it is recognized that, even in this list, not all listing are true species. White birch is most problematic in this regards as trees as different as American paper birch, grey birch, European white birch and Himalayan white birch might all be considered as white birch. Nonetheless, this list is presented for what interest and assistance it might provide.
The Raw Numbers
- Species
- Sugar Maple
- Hemlock
- White Oak
- Dogwood
- Red Oak
- Ash
- White Birch
- White Pine
- Apple
- American Elm
- Red Maple
- Oak
- Sycamore
- Beech
- Maple
- Norway Maple
- Shagbark Hickory
- Pin OakSpruce
- Cherry
- Pine
- Norway Spruce
- Cedar
- Tulip Tree
- Silver Maple
- Black Birch
- American Beech
- Black Oak
- Locust
- Japanese Maple
- Firs
- European Beech
- Willow
- Linden
- Kousa Dogwood
- Arbor Vitae
- Black Gum
- Black Walnut
- Blue Spruce
- Sweet Gum
- Pear
- Chestnut
- Poplar
- Gingko
- Carpinus
- Amelanchier
- Butternut
- Buckeyes
- Hawthorn
- Basswood
- Spice Bush
- Zelk ova
- Magnolia
- Larch
- Mounta in Ash
- Y ellowwood
- Mulberry
- Redbud
- Cypress
- Holly
- Total
- Number of Votes
- 84
- 82
- 67
- 64
- 64
- 64
- 61
- 52
- 47
- 40
- 38
- 33
- 32
- 30
- 28
- 26
- 26
- 25
- 25
- 24
- 23
- 14
- 14
- 14
- 11
- 10
- 10
- 9
- 9
- 8
- 8
- 6
- 6
- 6
- 5
- 5
- 5
- 5
- 4
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 3
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 2
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 1
- 119
- Percentage of Votes
- 71%
- 69%
- 56%
- 54%
- 54%
- 54%
- 51%
- 44%
- 39%
- 34%
- 32%
- 28%
- 27%
- 25%
- 24%
- 22%
- 22%
- 21%
- 21%
- 20%
- 19%
- 12%
- 12%
- 12%
- 9%
- 8%
- 8%
- 8%
- 8%
- 7%
- 7%
- 5%
- 5%
- 5%
- 4%
- 4%
- 4%
- 4%
- 3%
- 3%
- 3%
- 3%
- 3%
- 2%
- 2%
- 2%
- 2%
- 2%
- 2%
- 1%
- 1%
- 1%
- 1%
- 1%
- 1%
- 1%
- 1%
- 1%
- 1%
- 1%
