This list of 95 trees and shrubs of Thurston Nature Center was compiled by Mr. Mike Conboy in the Spring of 1996 and revised in 1997. Mike has labelled and positioned about 150 small signs to identify representative plants. A map is available showing the location of these species in the Nature Center.

Alder Apple Ash, Blue Ash, Green Ash, White Aspen, Bigtooth Aspen, Trembling Balsam Fir Barberry Basswood, American Basswood, European Beech Beech, Blue Birch, White Boxelder Buckthorn, European Buckthorn, Glossy Buttonbush Butternut Catalpa Cedar, Red Cedar, White Cherry, Black Cherry, Choke Cherry, Pin Cherry, Sweet Chestnut Cottonwood Cranberry Dogwood, Flowering Dogwood, Grey Dogwood, Red Osier

Dogwood, Silky Elm, American Elm, Rock Elm, Siberian Ginkgo Hackberry Hawthorn, Fan Leaf Hawthorn, Washington Hemlock Hickory, Pignut Hickory, Shagbark Honeysuckle Horsechestnut Ironwood Kentucky Coffee Locust Locust, Black Locust, Honey Maple, Amur Maple, Norway Maple, Red Maple, Silver Maple, Sugar Oak, Black Oak, Bur Oak, Pin Oak, Red Oak, White Olive, Autumn Olive, Russian Pawpaw Pear

Pine, Black Pine, Lace Bark Pine, Red Pine, Scotch Pine, White Plum Poplar Redbud Redwood, Dawn Sassafras Serviceberry Spruce, Black Spruce, Blue Spruce, Green Spruce, Northern Spruce, Norway Spruce, White Sumac Sweetgum Sycamore Tamarack Tuliptree Wahoo Walnut, Black Walnut, English Willow, Black Willow, Corkscrew Willow, Pussy Willow, Sandbar Willow, Weeping Witch-hazel