Hardwood and Softwood Species
- Softwood - woods that come from gymnosperms (mostly conifers plants)
- Hardwood - woods that come from angiosperms (flowering plants)
Some typical hardwoods and softwoods:
Hardwoods
- Alder, red
- Apple
- Ash, black
- Ash, green
- Ash, white
- Aspen
- Basswood, American
- Beech, American
- Birch, paper
- Birch, sweet
- Birch, yellow
- Cherry, black
- Chestnut, American
- Cottonwood
- Elm, American
- Elm, cedar
- Elm, rock
- Hackberry
- Hickory, bitternut
- Hickory, mockernut
- Hickory, pignut
- Hickory, red
- Hickory, sand
- Hickory, water
- Magnolia
- Maple, silver
- Maple, sugar
- Oak, California black
- Oak, northern red
- Oak, southern red
- Oak, water
- Oak, white
- Oak, willow
- Sweetgum
- Sycamore, American
- Tupelo, black
- Tupelo, swamp
- Tupelo, water
- Walnut, black
- Yellow-poplar
Softwoods
- Baldcypress
- Cedar, eastern red
- Cedar, incense
- Cedar, Port-Orford
- Cedar, western red
- Cedar, yellow
- Douglas-fir, coast type
- Fir, balsam
- Fir, grand
- Fir, noble
- Fir, Pacific silver
- Fir, white
- Hemlock, eastern
- Hemlock, western
- Larch, western
- Pine, loblolly
- Pine, lodgepole
- Pine, longleaf
- Pine, ponderosa
- Pine, red
- Pine, shortleaf
- Pine, sugar
- Pine, western white
- Redwood, old growth
- Spruce, black
- Spruce, Engelmann
- Spruce, Sitka
- Tamarack
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