Prior to the European colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans harvested the wood of redbud trees to construct ...

When North America’s large herbivores ... A member of the legume family, the tree’s 5- to 10-inch, tough-as-nails, purple-brown pods were a favored meal of the great hungry beasts who freed ...

The seeds then drop from trees as acorns, nuts, samaras, drupes, and pods. The most common North ... few of the most common hardwood trees in North America. The mature ash tree (Fraxinus) often ...