Type: Deciduous
Height: 40' - 70'
Form: Pyramidal when young; upright; open; thin twigs
Grow Rate: Moderate - Fast
Width: 40' - 60'
Leaf: 2 to 3.5" alternate, simple leaf; modest yellow fall color.
Comments: Multistemmed is desired; native; graceful branching; easy to transplant; best not to prune in spring - sap "bleeds"; heat tolerant; cinnamon brown exfoliating bark; may drop some leaves during dry weather; seeds attract birds.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 40' - 50'
Form: Pyramidal habit with a central leader; thin spreading branches
Grow Rate: Fast
Width: 20' - 25'
Leaf: Dark green pointy leaves turn yellow in the fall.
Comments: Exotic white-barked tree that is more resistant to bronze birch borer than the other birch trees. It has a white, non-peeling bark and is more heat-tolerant and disease-resistant than other white-barked trees.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 15' - 25'
Form: Rounded growth habit, and most often grows a bit wider than it does tall
Grow Rate: Fast
Width: 15' - 25'
Leaf: Spring and summer foliage is green, turning amber/yellow in autumn.
Comments: This tree flowers in early spring, buds begin as an almost crimson red, and as they open fade to pure white.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 20' - 30'
Form: Upright and open, round, spreading, symmetrical canopy with a regular outline
Grow Rate: Moderate - Fast
Width: 20' - 30'
Leaf: Dark reddish green leaves turn reddish purple in the fall.
Comments: A deservedly popular ornamental tree that's smothered in pink flowers in spring and persistent red fruit in fall.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 15' - 20'
Form: Upright, spreading, rounded, dense crown
Grow Rate: Moderate
Width: 15' - 20'
Leaf: Glossy dark green turning a dull yellow in the fall.
Comments: Snowdrift crab is a beautiful, hardy tree with visual impact during all four seasons.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 60' - 100'
Form: Pyramidal in youth; tall; spreading branches; broad, rounded, open crown
Grow Rate: Moderate
Width: 45' - 60'
Leaf: 4" to 8" alternate, simple leaves; modest yellow green fall color
Comments: Good shade tree, easy to transplant, drought and air pollution tolerant.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 50' - 75'
Form: Pyramidal in youth, more rounded with age, densely branched
Grow Rate: Moderate
Width: 35' - 45'
Leaf: Leaves are distinctly heart-shaped with serrated edges, medium shiny green in summer, pale yellow in fall.
Comments: Tolerates poor soil, drought, and air pollution; more ideally suited for a northern climate than for the south; easy to transplant; good honey plant.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 40' - 60'
Form: Pyramidal in youth, upright, oval canopy on a tall, straight trunk as the tree ages
Grow Rate: Moderate
Width: 25' - 30'
Leaf: Redmond has the largest leaves of the Lindens and its dense foliage is glossy green with bright yellow autumn color.
Comments: Excellent tree for street planting. Voted 2000 Urban Tree of the Year by the Society of Municipal Arborists.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 40' - 60'
Form: Pyramidal in youth, upright, ascending branches with an irregular rounded crown
Grow Rate: Fast
Width: 25' - 45'
Leaf: 2" to 5" opposite, simple leaf with 3 to 5 lobes; often triangular shaped; yellow, yellow-green, orange to red.
Comments: If you want a large, fast-growing tree with spectacular fall color, an Autumn Blaze is an excellent choice. This dependable hybrid has the vigor and adaptability of the silver maple with the beauty and strength of the red maple.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 40' - 50' can grow to 90'
Form: Dense; rounded, symmetrical crown; spreading
Grow Rate: Moderate
Width: 30' - 45'
Leaf: Dark green simple, 5 lobed leaf with sharp points; yellow fall color.
Comments: Shallow roots make it difficulty to grow plants underneath; easy to transplant; tolerates air pollution; sensitive to 2 4-D herbicide.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 50' - 75'
Form: Conical to round crown; dense foliage
Grow Rate: Slow
Width: 30' - 45'
Leaf: 3 to 6" opposite, simple leaf with 3 to 5 lobes; excellent fall color - yellow, orange and red tones.
Comments: Shallow roots make it difficulty to grow plants underneath; easy to transplant; tolerates air pollution; sensitive to 2 4-D herbicide.
Type: Evergreen
Height: 30' - 60'
Form: Broad, dense pyramidal in youth; dense, narrow compact with ascending branches with age
Grow Rate: Moderate
Width: 15' - 25'
Leaf: .5 to .75" 4-sided pale green to glacous green needles.
Comments: Good yard or ornamental tree. Used singly or in group plantings in recreation areas and public grounds.
Type: Evergreen
Height: 30' - 60'
Form: Dense, narrow pyramidal with stiff horizontal branches
Grow Rate: Slow
Width: 10' - 20'
Leaf: .75 to 1.3" blue-green to silver-green, 4 sided needles; prickly.
Comments: More drought tolerant than other spruces; poor heat tolerance.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 30' - 40'
Form: Pyramidal when young, dense, rounded canopy providing light shade when grown
Grow Rate: Moderate
Width: 25' - 30'
Leaf: The medium-green leaves turn a non-descript yellowish color in autumn.
Comments: The distinctive deep coppery-orange bark which curls as it peels off provides year-round accent to any landscape.
Type: Evergreen
Height: 30' - 60'
Form: Densely conical when young; broad, flat top with short trunk and low spreading branches
Grow Rate: Moderate
Width: 20' - 40'
Leaf: 3 to 6" stiff needles in pairs; dark green to almost black green; sharp to the touch.
Comments: Picturesque with age; withstands city conditions; heat and drought tolerant.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 15' - 20'
Form: Rounded growth habit, and most often grows a bit wider than it does tall flat-topped with age
Grow Rate: Slow - Moderate
Width: 15' - 20'
Leaf: 3" alternating dark glossy leaves turn multicolored array of red, purple, orange, and yellow in fall.
Comments: This tree flowers in early spring, buds begin as an almost crimson red, and as they open fade to pure white.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 60' - 90'
Form: Upright and open, round, spreading, symmetrical canopy with a regular outline
Grow Rate: Fast
Width: 50' - 60'
Leaf: Alternate, simple, 5 to 8 inches long, oblong in shape with 7 to 11 bristle-tipped lobes. Dark red in fall.
Comments: A large, adaptable tree has been successfully grown in urban areas where air pollution, poor drainage, compacted soil, and/or drought are common and overhead space is not limited.
Type: Deciduous
Height: 50' - 75'
Form: Upright; semiconical; short trunk; spreading, open crown at maturity
Grow Rate: Fast
Width: 25' - 40'
Leaf: 6 to 8" alternate, pinnately to bipinnately compound leaf; yellow to yellow green fall color.
Comments: Casts light shade; easy fall cleanup; use improved thornless cultivars; easy to transplant.