| Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malvaceae | Tilia americana var. americana | Northern Basswood | Rich coves, rocky slopes, metabasalt boulderfields, rich north-facing river bluffs, calcareous Coastal Plain ravines. | New Brunswick and Manitoba south to e. Virginia, w. North Carolina, and Oklahoma. |  (c) Sorrie, Bruce A. - CC-BY |
| Malvaceae | Tilia americana var. caroliniana | Southern Basswood, Carolina Basswood | Mesic forests, in the outer Coastal Plain usually associated with shell deposits, Indian shell middens, or underlying coquina limestone ("marl"). | North Carolina south to c. peninsular Florida and west to Oklahoma and c. Texas. |  (c) Weakley, Alan |
| Malvaceae | Tilia americana var. heterophylla | Mountain Basswood, White Basswood, Linn | Rich coves and mesic to dry slopes (the drier sites usually on limestone), often one of the most abundant trees in Southern Appalachian cove forests. | Centered in the Southern Appalachians: sw. Pennsylvania and West Virginia south to c. North Carolina, wc. Georgia, Florida Panhandle, and westward as disjunct populations to the Ozarkian Highlands of s. Missouri and n. Arkansas. |  (c) Ware, Richard & Teresa - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG |