Owl's Hill
Arboretum
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Owl's Hill has been certified as a Level 1 Arboretum by the Tennessee Urban Forestry Council.
As part of our commitment to education and conservation, Owl's Hill has chosen 43 species of trees to be part of our arboretum. These trees area labeled with their common names, scientific names, family, and native range. Visitors can use our arboretum specimens to learn about the identifying characteristics of a species and observe the habitat where it grows.
The arboretum species collection includes chestnut oak, red oak, bitternut hickory, blue ash and yellow buckeye in the mature forest along the South Ridge. Below the South Ridge is an orchard, with large pecan trees, a Chinese chestnut tree, pear trees, and a nearby thicket of Kentucky coffee trees. The younger forest near the Visitor's Center is home to chinkapin oak, white oak, shag bark hickory, black cherry, persimmon, Osage orange, paw-paw, eastern red cedar, sugar maple and honey locust trees.
Labeled trees can be found around the Visitor's Center, along the South Ridge and Sharp Creek trails, and along the Orchard paths. Please stay on the path. All trees can be viewed from established trails.
Use the map below to locate the marked trees.
Looking for a map without marked trees? Find it here.
Arboretum Trees by Trail
Parking Lot & Gardens
1 American Elm Ulmus americana
2 Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis
3 Sweetbay Magnolia Magnolia virginiana
4 Shumard Oak Quercus shumardii
Orchard Family Trails
5 Sugarberry Celtis laevigata
6 Shingle Oak Quercus imbricaria
7 Kentucky Coffeetree Gymnocladus dioicus
8 Pecan Carya illinoinensis 'Stuart'
9 Common Pear Pyrus communis
10 Pecan Carya illinoinensis 'Mahan'
11 Chinese Chestnut Castanea mollissima
12 Boxelder Acer negundo
Sharp Creek Trail
13 Chinkapin Oak Quercus muehlenbergii
14 American Basswood Tilia americana
15Wild Goose Plum Prunus munsoniana
16 American Sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua
17 Black Cherry Prunus serotina
18 Loblolly Pine Pinus taeda
19 White Oak Quercus alba (The Old Oak)
20 Common Persimmon Diospyros virginiana
21 Osage-Orange Maclura pomifera
22 Eastern Redcedar Juniperus virginiana
23 Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida
24 Red Mulberry Morus rubra
25 Common Hackberry Celtis occidentalis
26 Black Walnut Juglans nigra
27 Pawpaw Asimina triloba
South Ridge Trail
28 American Beech Fagus grandifolia
29 Tulip Poplar Liriodendron tulipifera
30 Bitternut Hickory Carya cordiformis
31 White Ash Fraxinus americana
32 Blue Ash Fraxinus quadrangulata
33 White Oak Quercus alba
34 Post Oak Quercus stellata
35 Northern Red Oak Quercus rubra
36 Shagbark Hickory Carya ovata
37 Pignut Hickory Carya glabra
38 Chestnut Oak Quercus montana
39 Winged Elm Ulmus alata
40 Yellow Buckeye Aesculus flava
41 Sugar Maple Acer saccharum
Haircut Loop Trail
42 Sassafras Sassafras albidum
43 Honeylocust Gleditsia triacanthos
44 Yellowwood Cladrastis kentukea
Where to find us
Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary
545 Beech Creek Road South
Brentwood, TN 37027
Owl's Hill Nature Sanctuary is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Tax ID # 02-0781338.