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Deciduous

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Catalpa speciosa
Common Name:
Northern or Western Catalpa
Height:
30 to 45
Spread:
15 to 25
Zone:
4 to 8
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
White
Fall Color:
Yello-green to brownish

Course bark/ wood with long pendulous capsules containing seeds. Has an open, irregular crown.

Honeylocust

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Gleditsia triacanthos

Common Name:

Common Honeylocust
Height:
20 to 35'
Spread:
equal to height
Zone:
4 to 9
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
Greenish-yellow, May-June
Fall Color:
Yellow to yellow green

A structurally sound tree and often overused in the landscape as a shadetree. The 'Imperial' above, is a thornless variety.

Flameleaf Sumac

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Rhus copallina
Common Name:
Flaming or Shining Sumac
Height:
15 to 25'
Spread:
equal to height
Zone:
4 to 9
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
Greenish-yellow, July-August
Fall Color:
Crimson or scarlet

Of all the Sumacs, the Flameleaf displays optimum characteristics. It's xeric, colorful and will colonize with un-conventional shape.

Chinese Pistache

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Pistacia chinensis
Common Name:
Chinese Pistache
Height:
14 to 28'
Spread:
15 to 28'
Zone:
5 to 9
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
small, dense and greenish
Fall Color:
rust an orange

Drought tolerant and does well in urban settings.

Kentucky Coffeetree

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Gymnocladus dioicus
Common Name:
Kentucky Coffeetree
Height:
48 to 60'
Spread:
32 to 40'
Zone:
3b to 8
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
Greenish-white, May to early June
Fall Color:
Yellow

Great for parks but drops lots of pods.

Linden Littleleaf

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Tilia cordata
Common Name:
Littleleaf Linden
Height:
30 to 40
Spread:
1/2 to 2/3 of height
Zone:
3b to 7
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
Yellowish and fragrant
Fall Color:
Yellow

An excellent shade tree. Usually pyramidal in youth and more rounded and densely branched with maturity.

Aspen

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Populus tremuloides
Common Name:
Quaking Aspen
Height:
20 to 40'
Spread:
10 to 20'
Zone:
1 to 6
Water Requirements:
x
Fall Color:
Yellow

A fast grower and often found in higher elevations. Known for its fall colors and trembling leaves.

Hackberry

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Celtis occidentalis
Common Name:
Hackberry
Height:
20 to 30'
Spread:
equal to height
Zone:
3 to 9
Water Requirements:
x
Fall Color:
Yellow-green

A reliable "workhorse" when it comes to diverse soils. Tough and simple, for the landscape or open spaces.

Golden Raintree

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Koelreuteria paniculata
Common Name:
Goldenraintree
Height:

20 to 30'
Spread:
equal to height
Zone:
5 to 8
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
Yellow
Fall Color:
Golden, orange-yellow

Attractive, flowering shade tree and adapts well to tough soils.

Sweet Gum

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Liquidambar styraciflua
Common Name:
American Sweetgum
Height:
48 to 60'
Spread:
2/3 to equal the height
Zone:
5 to 9
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
late April-May
Fall Color:
yellow-purple-red tones

Holds leaves late in fall with great variability in color.

American Sycamore

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Platanus occidentalis
Common Name:
American Planetree, Sycamore
Height:

40 to 60'
Spread:
equal to/ greater than height
Zone:
4 to 9
Water Requirements:

Flower:
dense globose, not showy
Fall Color:
tan to brown

Irrigular habit with large trunk and a wide-spreading open crown. Rootball can be sensitive to soil disturbances.

White Ash

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Fraxinus americana
Common Name:
White Ash
Height:
30 to 50'
Spread:
same
Zone:
4 to 9
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
green, purple
Fall Color:
Reddish-purple

A seedless variety on the large side of shade trees...the Autumn Blaze Ash, above, is noted as a fast grower.

Green Ash

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Common Name:
Green Ash or Patmore
Height:
30 to 45'
Spread:
Up to 30'
Zone:
2b/3a
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
Green to purple, April
Fall Color:
Gold

The Patmore Ash is a seedless variety (Green Ash) used in the landscape as a shade tree. Also, Marshall's seedless Ash is a Green variety.

Chittamwood

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Bumelia lanuginosa
Common Name:
American Smoketree, Chittamwood
Height:
18-27'
Spread:

Zone:
4 to 8
Water Requirements:

Flower:
x
Fall Color: yellow, orange, amber, red and reddish purple

Grows as a large, upright shrub or small, oval-rounded tree. Noted for intense color.

Eastern Redbud

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Cercis canadensis
Common Name:
Eastern Redbud
Height:
16 t0 24'
Spread:
15 to 28'
Zone:
4 to 9
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
reddish purple in bud, then pink to purplish
Fall Color:
yellow to yellow green

Usually small with multiple trunks and a flat-topped to rounded crown.

Lacebark Elm

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Ulmus parvifolia
Common Name:
Lacebark Elm
Height:
25 to 35'
Spread:
equal to height
Zone:
(4)5 to 9
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
x
Fall Color:
Yellow to reddish-purple

A Hybrid Elm, the Lacebark displays the best qualities for a landscape tree and is resistant to the diseases that have troubled the Elm in the past.

Cedar Elm

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Ulmus crassifolia
Common Name:
Cedar Elm
Height:

35 to 45'
Spread:
25 to 35'
Zone:
6 to 9
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
Small clusters with fruit in Fall
Fall Color:
Yellow to reddish-purple

Often used as a shade tree in the Southwest. Displays drought resistance and overcomes non fertile soils.

Chinkapin Oak

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Quercus muelenbergii
Common Name:
Chinkapin Oak
Height:
36 to 40'
Spread:
greater than height
Zone:
(4)5 to 7
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
x
Fall Color:
yellow, orangish-brown,brown

Displays intense, scaly, gray trunks and branches. Usually develops an open, rounded crown.

Shumard Red Oak

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Quercus shumardii
Common Name:
Shumard Red Oak
Height:
25 to 48'
Spread:
Increases with age
Zone:
5 to 9
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
x
Fall Color:
Lots o' red

Possesses some drought resistant qualities but not entirely xeric.

Sawtooth Oak

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Quercus acutissima
Common Name:
Sawtooth Oak
Height:
32 to 48'
Spread:
Equal to height
Zone:
5 to 9
Water Requirements:
x
Fall Color:
Yellow to golden brown

Becomes more oval rounded with age. Amazing specimens at the Tree Farm that continue to hold their leaves, even in January.

Bur Oak

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Quercus macrocarpa
Common Name:
Bur Oak
Height:
32 to 48'
Spread:
15 to 25'
Zone:
3 to 8
Water Requirements:
x
Fall Color:
yellow to yellow brown.

Another great Oak variety. Thrives in tough soils, likes full sun and displays interesting bark tecture.

Callery Pear

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Pyrus calleryana
Common Name:
Callery Pear
Height:
20 to 35'
Spread:
12 to 20'
Zone:
5 to 8(9)
Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
White, early spring
Fall Color:
Red

Known to have a high tolerance for heat, resistant to drought and compacted soils.

Cleveland Select Pear

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Pyrus calleryana
Common Name:
Cleveland Select or Chanticleer
Height:
20 to 30'
Spread:
8 to 16'
Zone:
5 to 8

Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
white
Fall Color:
Reddish-purple

An upright-pyramidal variety that offers a stronger branching. Displays drought resistant qualities.

Capital Pear

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Pyrus Calleryana 'Capital'
Common Name:
Capital Pear
Height:
20 to 30'
Spread:
4 to 8'
Zone:
5 to 8

Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
White
Fall Color:
Red

This variety tends to grow more upright and columnar with dark green leaves.

Aristocrat Pear

Quick Facts...

Botanical Name:
Pyrus Calleryana 'Aristocrat'
Common Name:
Aristocrat Pear
Height:
12 to 20'
Spread:
8 to 12'
Zone:
5 to 8

Water Requirements:
x
Flower:
White
Fall Color:
Yellow to red

The Aristocrat has a broader-pyramidal growth habbit and is similar to the Bradford's heat and cold tolerance.

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