Oak, blackgum, tulip and yellow birch trees are common in the woods that cover the valley walls.

It can be found growing with swamp blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica var.

Other hardwoods include green ash, red maple, swamp chestnut oak, blackgum, and the majestic bald cypress.

Jonathan had spent many happy childhood afternoons diving and swimming in the cool waters of the swift, narrow Blackgum River with his cousins.

Nyssa sylvatica (blackgum)

Elsewhere, beech trees, sugar maples, basswoods, pin oaks, red maples and blackgum trees grow.

Other tree species include red oaks, water oaks, willow oaks, blackgum, sweetgum, beech and hackberry.

Nyssa biflora, commonly referred to as the swamp tupelo, or blackgum is a species of tupelo that lives in wetland habitats.

In the early years of settlement, European-Americans named the town Gum Pond, supposedly due to its numerous tupelo trees, which are locally known as blackgum.

Fall blooms include chrysanthemums, asters, ornamental grasses and autumn roses as well as maple, blackgum and beech foliage.

Associated tree species include loblolly and shortleaf pines, oaks, gums (blackgum and sweetgum), and flowering dogwood.

It now contains over 100 species, including European beech, sweetgum, blackgum, willow oak, fringe tree, Balkan pine, and Japanese kerria.

It is less tolerant than many of its associates such as white and chestnut oaks, hickories, beech (Fagus grandifolia), maples, elm, and blackgum.

Chrysanthemums, asters, sedums, ornamental grasses, fall blooming roses, brilliant maple, blackgum and beech foliage are in bloom through mid-November.

Lowland hardwoods include willow oak, water oak, blackgum, sweetgum, cottonwood, willow, ash, elm, hackberry, and red maple.

Tree species include shortleaf pine, post oak, red oak, black oak, hickory, elm, blackgum, sweetgum, rusty blackhaw (Viburnum rufidulum), flowering dogwood, and hawthorn (Crataegus).

The undergrowth was not too thick; they had found an easy way under the canopy of oak and hickory, blackgum and beech, pierced here and there by a tall pine or leatherleaf, or the white slash of a paperbark.