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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Comments |
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American Holly
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Ilex opaca |
- Size: large shrub/small tree (25' tall by 12' wide). Pyramidal shape. Broadleaf evergreen
- Flowers: not significant
- Fruit: attractive red holly fruits
- Culture: sun or partial shade. Avoid poorly drained soils
- Use: specimen, hedge, corner of foundation
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American Sycamore
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Plantanus occidentalis |
- Size: large sized tree (75' tall by 75' wide). Very fast growing
- Flowers: not significant
- Fruit: 1 fruit per stalk
- Bark: not quite as nice as London planetree, exfoliating mainly on upper trunk
- Culture: very adaptable
- Disease/insect: susceptible to anthracnose
- Use: parks. Very messy (twigs, leaves)
- Native to riverbottoms
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Baldcypress
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Taxodium distichum |
- Size: medium sized, deciduous conifer tree (50' tall by 40' wide)
- Flowers/fruits: not significant
- Fall color: nice red-brown fall color
- Culture: very adaptable from wet to dry
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: deciduous shade tree, deer camps, urban tree
- Native to wet areas in Arkansas
- Cultivar: 'Shawnee Brave'
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Blackgum;
Black Tupelo
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Nyssa sylvatica |
- Size: medium sized tree (45' tall by 35' wide)
- Flowers/fruit: not significant. Fruit a blue-black berry (drupe)
- Fall color: exceptional and reliable red fall color
- Culture: adaptable
- Disease/insect: minor leaf spot
- Use: shade tree
- Arkansas native
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Callery Pear
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Pyrus calleryana |
- Size: small/medium sized tree (25' tall by 20' wide)
- Flowers: beautiful early spring flowers, white
- Fruits: small, rounded pear
- Fall color: exceptional maroon fall color
- Culture: very adaptable to soils, full sun
- Disease/insect: fireblight
- Use: small flowering tree. Growing concern over overplanting, fireblight, crown break-up on 'Bradford'
- Cultivars: 'Bradford', 'Aristocrat', 'Capital', 'Chanticleer'
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Canadian Hemlock
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Tsuga canadensis |
- Size: medium sized conifer tree (50' tall by 40' wide)
- Culture: best in shade, rich moist soils; best in Northwest Arkansas
- Disease/insect: woolly adelgid, scale
- Use: needle evergreen for the shade in Northwest Arkansas. Will tolerate shearing. Very fine textured
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Chinese Elm, Lacebark Elm
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Ulmus parvifolia |
- Size: medium sized tree (50' tall by 45' wide)
- Flowers/fruits: not significant
- Fall color: typically not great in Arkansas. Leaves small and glossy
- Bark: known for exfoliating bark
- Culture: very adaptable
- Use: lawn tree, good urban tree
- Cultivars: Allee®, Athena®, 'Drake'
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Chinese Pistache
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Pistacia chinenesis |
- Size: small sized tree (25' tall by 25' wide); rounded crown
- Flowers: not significant
- Fruit: pistache fruits on female trees. Dioecious (male & female plants)
- Fall color: exceptional, but varies in color from red to orange or yellow
- Culture: full sun. Drought tolerant
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: small shade tree
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Colorado Blue Spruce
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Picea pungens f. glauca |
- Size: medium sized tree (40' tall by 20' wide); pyramidal
- Culture: best in cooler areas with rich, moist soil. Better suited in Northwest Arkansas
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: specimen, formal evergreen
- Cultivars mostly selected for intense blue needle color: 'Hoopsii', 'Koster', 'Moerheim'
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Corkscrew Willow
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Salix matsudana 'Tortuosa' |
- Size: large shrub/small tree (18' tall by 12' wide)
- Unique twisting stems
- Brittle stems/messy
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Crapemyrtle
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Lagerstroemia indica |
- Size: small shrub to small sized tree (3' to 40' tall)
- Flowers: exceptional summer flowering plant. Flower colors vary from white to pink to purple
- Fruit: woody capsule. Not showy and somewhat messy
- Fall color: nice flame colors on some cultivars
- Bark: exceptional on some tree cultivars ('Natchez', 'Biloxi')
- Culture: full sun. Drought tolerant once established
- Disease/insect: powdery mildew, leaf spot
- Use: specimen summer flowering shrub/tree
- Best in zones 7 and 8
- Cultivars: many for size and flower color
- See Crapemyrtle Database
for cultivars
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Cutleaf Japanese Maple
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Acer palmatum var. dissectum |
- Culture: avoid windy sites: requires moist soil especially in summer. Typically not well suited to full sun in Arkansas
- Uses: specimen in landscapes
- Cultivars: variety dissectum is a large group of cutleaf forms; Cultivars include: 'Tamukeyama', 'Garnet', 'Crimson Queen', ‘Burgundy Lace’
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