Large Badger Chestnut is a cold-hardy, blight-resistant chestnut cultivar selected for its larger-than-average nut size and dependable annual production, making it a strong choice for home orchards and nut growers. It blooms in early summer and grows best in full sun with moderate to dry, well-drained soil.
Szego Chestnut is a productive, blight-resistant chestnut cultivar bred for reliable nut production and improved disease tolerance compared to the native American chestnut. It bears sweet, large, high-quality nuts and grows into a vigorous, spreading tree. It blooms in early summer and grows best in full sun with moderate to dry, well-drained soil. Szego makes a good pollinator for other varieties. Upright growth habit and very fast growing.
Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis) is a long-lived native tree valued for its golden, curling bark and wintergreen-scented twigs. It prefers cool, moist sites and provides good yellow fall color along with valuable hardwood timber. It blooms in early spring via catkins and grows best in part shade to full sun with moist, cool soil.
Tuliptree (Liriodendron tulipifera), also called yellow poplar, is one of the tallest native hardwoods, growing quickly into a straight-trunked shade tree. It produces distinctive tulip-shaped yellow-green flowers in late spring and golden fall foliage. It blooms in late spring and grows best in full sun to part shade with moderate to moist soil.
American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) is a massive, fast-growing shade tree instantly recognizable by its mottled, exfoliating bark that reveals creamy white patches beneath. A classic riverbank tree, it tolerates wet soils and provides deep shade with its large maple-like leaves. It blooms in mid-spring, though the flowers are inconspicuous, and grows best in full sun with moist soil.
Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor) is a durable, long-lived native oak tolerant of wet, poorly drained soils. It features two-toned leaves — dark green above, silvery beneath — and develops handsome, flaking bark with age. It blooms in mid-spring, though the flowers are inconspicuous, and grows best in full sun to part shade with moist to wet soil.
Shagbark Hickory (Carya ovata) is easily recognized by its distinctive bark, which peels away in long, shaggy vertical strips on mature trees. It produces sweet, edible nuts favored by both people and wildlife, along with excellent golden fall color. It blooms in mid-spring, though the flowers are inconspicuous, and grows best in full sun to part shade with moderate, well-drained soil.
Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) is a fast-growing shade tree with deeply cut leaves that show a silvery underside, fluttering attractively in the wind. It tolerates wet soils well and is often chosen where quick shade coverage is desired. It blooms very early in spring, before its leaves emerge, and grows best in full sun to part shade, adapting well to both moist and wet soils.
Downy Serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea) produces a profusion of white flowers in early spring, often before other trees have leafed out, followed by sweet edible berries. It offers attractive gray bark and reliable orange-to-red fall foliage. It blooms in early spring and grows best in full sun, part shade, or shade with moderate, well-drained soil.
Allegheny Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis) is a native small tree or large shrub with delicate white flowers in early spring, followed by sweet, edible purple berries relished by birds, and vibrant orange-red fall color. It blooms in early spring and grows best in full sun to part shade with moderate, well-drained soil.
Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) is a native tree easily recognized by its distinctively shaped leaves, which can be oval, mitten-shaped, or three-lobed even on the same branch. It offers outstanding orange, red, and purple fall color and aromatic bark, twigs, and roots. It blooms in mid-spring, before its leaves emerge, and grows best in full sun to part shade with moderate to dry, well-drained soil.
Red Maple (Acer rubrum) is one of the most widely adaptable native shade trees, thriving in wet or dry soils and producing brilliant scarlet fall foliage along with reddish flowers and samaras in spring. It is a fast-growing, reliable choice for home landscapes and reforestation. It blooms very early in spring, before its leaves emerge, and grows best in full sun to part shade, adapting well to both moist and wet soils.
Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis) is a beloved native ornamental tree, among the first to bloom each spring with clusters of pink-purple flowers that appear directly on bare branches before the heart-shaped leaves emerge. It is a reliable, adaptable small flowering tree for sun or part shade. It blooms in early spring, before its leaves emerge, and grows best in full sun to part shade with moderate, well-drained soil.
Sweetbay Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana) is a graceful, semi-evergreen native tree with creamy white, lemon-scented flowers that bloom over an extended period in late spring and summer. It tolerates wet soils better than most magnolias, making it well suited to rain gardens and low-lying sites. It blooms over an extended period from late spring through summer, and grows best in full sun to part shade with moist to wet soil.
Disease-Resistant American Elm (Ulmus americana) retains the classic vase-shaped canopy and graceful arching branches that once lined countless American streets, while offering improved tolerance to Dutch elm disease. It is a fast-growing, adaptable shade tree suited to a wide range of sites. It blooms very early in spring, before its leaves emerge, and grows best in full sun to part shade with moist, well-drained soil.
Black Gum (Nyssa sylvatica), also called tupelo, is prized as one of the earliest and most reliable trees for brilliant scarlet fall color. It tolerates both wet and dry soils and provides fruit that is an important late-season food source for birds. It blooms in late spring, though the flowers are inconspicuous, and grows best in full sun to part shade with consistently moist soil.
Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) is a native hardwood valued both for its dark, richly grained lumber and its ecological importance, producing white spring flowers and dark summer fruit relished by songbirds and mammals. Mature trees develop distinctive dark, scaly "burnt potato chip" bark. It blooms in mid-spring and grows best in full sun to part shade with well-drained, moderately moist soil.
American Basswood (Tilia americana), also known as American linden, is a fast-growing shade tree with large heart-shaped leaves and fragrant, pale yellow flowers in early summer that are a favorite of bees. Its soft, light wood has long been prized for carving. It blooms in early summer and grows best in full sun to part shade with moist, well-drained soil.
The White Oak (Quercus alba) is a prominent, long-lived hardwood native to eastern and central North America. Growing up to 80–135 feet tall, it is easily identified by its light ashy-gray bark and leaves with rounded, finger-like lobes. The wood is highly valued for furniture, flooring, and whiskey barrels.
Quercus alba, the white oak,[3] is one of the preeminent hardwoods of eastern and central North America. It is a long-lived oak, native to eastern and central North America and found from Minnesota, Ontario, Quebec, and southern Maine south as far as northern Florida and eastern Texas.[4] Specimens have been documented to be over 450 years old.
The sugar maple (Acer saccharum) is a deciduous tree native to eastern North America, renowned globally as the primary source of maple syrup and for its vibrant yellow, orange, and red autumn foliage. It is the state tree of New York, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Vermont.
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