Native Trees

This is an interesting small tree. Striped Maples exhibit bark that is smooth and green or greenish brown, with long white or pale green vertical lines. As the tree matures, the bark turns reddish-brown with dark vertical lines. The twigs are green and hairless, becoming striped with whitish lines.

Red Maple is a very adaptable tree for virtually any soil. It is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern North America. The red maple ranges from the Lake of the Woods on the border between Ontario and Minnesota, east to Newfoundland, south to near Miami, Florida, and southwest to east Texas.

Acer rubrum 'Autumn Flame' is a male cultivar of Red Maple. A very adaptable tree, with brilliant scarlet fall color lasting several weeks. It is often one of the first trees to color up in autumn, and it puts on one of the most brilliant displays of any tree.

A large, highly valued shade tree for handsome form, dense foliage and lovely yellow autumn color. Tolerant of wet conditions, but well adapted to more dry rocky sites. Sugar Maple is a species native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas.

Yellow Buckeye (Aesculus flava or octandra) is an interesting tree native to the Ohio Valley and Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States. It is a medium to large-sized deciduous tree growing to 20–47m (65'-150') tall. It grows in mesophytic forest or floodplains, generally in acid to circumneutral soil.

Aesuculus parviflora is a highly attractive small tree that resembles more of a broad-skirted shrub that tops out at around 10'-12'. The candelabra-like racemes of white flowers with exerted stamens cloak the plant in early summer and are attractive to hummingbirds, butterflies and humans, alike. You need about an 18' footprint for this one

This beautiful tree is a hummingbird magnet and provides a red bud/floral display for up to a month or more. It is tidy and great for back yards and small spaces. Capable of reaching 25 to 30 feet tall in the wild though is most often at 15 to 20 feet high when grown in cultivation.

Birds love the fruits and it has been used as a medicinal plant. Berries make great jelly, and it is sometimes made into bonsai.. It will grow from moist to dry sites, growing at altitudes from sea level up into the Appalachians.

Amelanchier plants are valued horticulturally, and their fruits are important to wildlife.

An unusual native fruit with tropical affinities. The fruit of the pawpaw is a large, yellowish-green to brown, and the edible pulp tastes like a cross between bananas, pineapple, and custard. Asimina triloba is a large shrub or small tree growing to a height of 35 feet.

Betula lenta (Sweet or Black Birch) is native to eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southeast Manitoba, and south to Maryland and Delaware, and in the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia and Alabama.

The twigs, when scraped, have a slight scent of wintergreen oil, though not as strongly so as the related sweet birch which is the only other birch in North America to also smell of wintergreen. However, the potency of the odor is not considered a reliable identification method unless it is combined with other characteristics.

Exfoliating salmon-colored bark in youth developing into orange-brown after 5-7 years. Leaves are diamond shaped with good yellow autumn color. Predominantly upright habit with fast growth rate. Extremely good for wet areas and damp ground. Flowers inconspicuous April thru May, fruits June thru September. Resistant to both birch borer and leaf mine

A wonderful small tree with distinctive smooth dark gray bark. Trunk has a deeply rippled and sinewy look. Gray-green foliage in summer followed by good autumn color of orange and scarlet. Flat top tree with spreading habit.

Carya glabra (Pignut Hickory) is a tree in the Juglandaceae or Walnut family. An abundant hickory, common in the eastern half of the US, it is long lived, sometimes reaching several hundred years. A straight-growing hickory, a high percentage of its wood is used for products where strength, hardness, and flexibility are needed. The wood makes an

Carya ovata, the Shagbark Hickory, is a Common Hickory in the eastern United States and southeast Canada. It is a large, deciduous tree, growing up to 90' tall, and can live up to 200 years. Mature shagbarks are easy to recognize because, as their name implies, they have shaggy bark. This characteristic is, however, only found on mature trees.

Celtis occidentalis, commonly known as the Common Hackberry, is a medium-size deciduous tree native to North America. It is also known as the Nettletree, Beaverwood, Northern Hackberry, and American Hackberry. It is a moderately long-lived hardwood with a light-colored wood, yellowish gray to light brown with yellow streaks.

The Redbud is one of the most beautiful small trees to grace our forest understory. A small tree in the Caesalpinacaea (related to peas and honey locusts, it is a legume) with a sturdy upright trunk which divides into stout branches that usually spread to form a broad flat head.

A medium-sized tree, smooth gray bark, and yellow. The flowers are white, clustered and show from May-June. Cladrastis kentukea, the Kentucky Yellowwood or American Yellowwood, is native to the Southeastern United States. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree typically growing 30–50 feet tall.