Common KY Trees Common Tree Videos Above is an example of a video of Kentucky's state tree, yellow poplar. Click on one of the trees below for additional videos. KY Common Trees Videos American Basswood American Beech American Chestnut American Elm American Holly American Hornbeam American Plum American Sycamore Baldcypress Bigleaf Magnolia Bitternut Hickory Black Cherry Black Locust Black Oak Black Walnut Black Willow Blackgum Blackjack Oak Blue Ash Boxelder Buckeye Bur Oak Carolina Buckthorn Carolina Silverbell Cherrybark Oak Chestnut Oak Chinkapin Oak Cucumbertree Devil's Walkingstick Eastern Cottonwood Eastern Hemlock Eastern Hophornbeam Eastern Redbud Eastern Redbud Eastern Redcedar Eastern White Pine Flowering Dogwood Green Ash Hackberry Honeylocust Kentucky Coffeetree Live Oak Mockernut Hickory Mockernut Hickory Northern Catalpa Northern Red Oak Osage Orange Pawpaw Pecan Persimmon Pignut Hickory Pin Oak Pitch Pine Post Oak Red Hickory Red Maple Red Mulberry Redbud River Birch Sassafras Scarlet Oak Serviceberry Shagbark Hickory Shellbark Hickory Shingle Oak Shortleaf Pine Shumard Oak Silver Maple Slippery Elm Smooth Sumac Sourwood Southern Magnolia Southern Red Oak Staghorn Sumac Sugar Maple Swamp Chestnut Oak Swamp White Oak Sweet Birch Sweetgum Umbrella Magnolia Virginia Pine Washington Hawthorn Water Oak White Oak Willow Oak Witch Hazel Yellow Poplar Yellowwood