Tree Guide

The arboretum tour of The Lexington Cemetery includes forty-one trees. The tour begins at the Henry Clay Monument.

The tour may be taken as a whole or in two parts. The first half ends after the ginkgo, Number 23. The second half begins with the cucumber tree, Number 24, and covers a wider area of the cemetery.

All of the trees on the tour are marked with metal plates.

The trees in The Lexington Cemetery have been allowed to grow naturally with no use of insecticides or feritlizers. In most cases these trees are the best specimens of their species growing in this area, and some are the largest of their kind. That is because the cemetery was established in 1849, and the trees which have been planted have not been pruned or trimmed into artificial shapes.

1.	Southern Magnolia	24.	Cucumber Tree
2.	Weeping Cherry	25.	Tulip Poplar
3.	Eastern Hemlock	26.	Kentucky Coffeetree
4.	European Hornbeam	27.	European Larch
5.	Eastern Redbud	28.	Shellbark Hickory
6.	Yellowwood	29.	Amur Corktree
7.	Common Hackberry	30.	Japanese Maple
8.	Osage Orange	31.	Northern White-Cedar
9.	Weeping Mulberry	32.	Northern Catalpa
10.	Panicle Hydrangea	33.	American Elm
11.	Eastern Redcedar	34.	Sycamore
12.	Baldcypress	35.	Royal Paulownia
13.	Red Buckeye	36.	Baldcypress
14.	Sycamore Maple	37.	European Black Alder
15.	Sweet Gum	38.	Sugar Maple
16.	Common Sassafras	39.	European Ash
17.	American Holly	40.	Fern-Leaf Beech
18.	Black Gum	41.	Ginkgo
19.	White Pine	42.	Bur Oak
20.	Flowering Dogwood
21.	American Basswood
22.	Pin Oak
23.	Red Oak