This World Wide Web page written by
Dan Styer;
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/Muir/TheForestsOfYosemite.html;
3 October 2012.
| Name used by Muir | Name used today |
|---|---|
| digger nut-pine (Pinus Sabiniana) | California foothill pine (Pinus sabiniana) |
| Pinus attenuata | Knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata) |
| nut-pine (Pinus monophylla) | Singleleaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla) |
| white pine (Pinus flexilis) | Limber pine (Pinus flexilis) |
| dwarfed pine or white-barked pine (Pinus albicaulis) | Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) |
| mountain pine (Pinus monticola) | Western white pine (Pinus monticola) |
| sugar pine (Pinus Lambertiana) | Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) |
| yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa) | Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) |
| Jeffreyi variety of yellow pine | Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) |
| Douglas spruce (Pseudotsuga Douglasii) | Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) |
| incense cedar (Libocedrus decurrens) | Incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) |
| silver fir (Abies magnifica) | California red fir (Abies magnifica) |
| white silver fir (Abies concolor) | White fir (Abies concolor) |
| tamarack pine (Pinus contorta var. Murrayana) | Sierra lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. murrayana) |
| red cedar (Juniperus occidentalis) | Western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) |
| mountain hemlock (Tsuga Mertensiana) | Mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) |
| California black oak (Quercus Californica) | California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) |
| mountain live-oak or goldcup oak (Quercus chrysolepis) | Canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis) |
| poplar or balm of Gilead (Populus trichocarpa) | Black cottonwood (Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa) |
| Nuttall's flowering dogwood | Pacific dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) |
| broad-leaved maple | Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) |
| common aspen | Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) |
| California nutmeg (Tumion Californicum) | California nutmeg (Torreya californica) |