Connecticut's Trees/Plants/Flowers Fun Facts
Interesting Tree Facts
- The largest tree in the state is a sycamore in Simsbury along the Farmington River
- The acidity of pine needles often prevents growth under coniferous trees
- Connecticut's many aspen trees were once known and sometimes still as Popple
- Black triangles or chevrons, below branches distinguish the gray birch from other birches
- Chestnut and white pine trees dominated Connecticut's forests 350 years ago
- Pitch pine, CT's only three-needle pine, was once called candlewood
- Long-dead chestnut trees still stand in CT's forests- they decompose from the inside out
- Sugar maple trees are killed at temperatures below -43oF
- Oak/hickory is the dominant forest type in Connecticut today
February
- February and March-best times to prune apple trees
- Freezing nights and warmer days provide ideal weather for sugar maple sap to run
- Skunk cabbage begins to emerge from snow, attracts season's first flies
March
- Time to prune your Apple trees
April
- Mid month-Maple tree buds begin swelling around this time
- Late month-Maple trees begin leafing out
- Forsythia in full bloom
May
- Oak trees begin leafing out
- Flowering dogwoods in full bloom
- Crabapple trees in full bloom
- Tree pollen covers everything with yellow dust
- Lilacs in full bloom
- Poison Ivy blooming
- Buttercups flowering
- Iris blooming
June
- Rhododendron in full bloom
- Cottonwood "cotton" fills the air
- Rhododendrons can attain heights of 40 feet
July
August
- A hot dry summer is a boon to ragweed, whose pollen peaks around labor day
- Ragweed pollen season underway, monitored until September 30
- Asters bloom in open areas
September
- Ragweed pollen season ends in Connecticut end of September
October
- Peak of fall foliage in Northwest Hills
- Pumpkins are ready for harvest this month
- Leaves falling in earnest
- Acorns are an important winter food for many animals
- 1994-little rain and light wind provided one of the prettiest falls in memory,
November
- Last of maple leaves hanging on
Earth Day
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