Do you want to find out more about a tree you found on your walk? This Field Guide to Hyde Park Trees will give you information about how to care for a tree and how trees care for us.
Field Guide to Hyde Park Trees
The Tree Care tree tag will tell you what kind of tree you are with, but if you want to know how to identify an untagged tree, or to find out more about any tree, try one of these ways:
iPhone: Open a photo of a tree in your Photos app. Tap the 'info' button or long-press on a leaf. Select "Look Up Plant" to see matches.
Android: In the Google app, tap the camera icon (Google Lens) in the search bar, and point your camera at a leaf, berry or flower.
iNaturalist is an easy-to-use app that allows you to upload a picture of a tree and identify the species, as well as sharing your observation as part of their citizen science effort
ash
birch
black cherry
black locust
buckthorn
catalpa
crab apple
elm
gingko
hackberry
hickory
linden
maple
oak
pine
serviceberry
sumac
sycamore
tupelo
tree of heaven
willow
all other trees
Maple, oak, black cherry, birch, elm, crab apple, and willow—the urban trees of Hyde Park are our neighbors. Tree Care Hyde Park invites residents to get to know these tree neighbors better through 1000 colorful, plant-dyed textile tree tags printed with ink made from the trees.
Tree Care Hyde Park aligns with the aim of the City of Boston Urban Forest Plan to share the power of urban trees to improve air quality, provide wildlife habitat, reduce heat and mitigate the adverse health impacts of heat, reduce stormwater flooding, lower energy bills, capture carbon, and create an urban community that is joyful, peaceful, and beautiful.