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Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Comments |
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Thornless Common Honeylocust
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Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis |
- Size: medium-large tree (60' tall by 60' wide). Very fast growing
- Flowers: not significant
- Fruit: 12" long, twisted pod. Messy. You do not want a female honeylocust
- Fall color: nice yellow
- Culture: very adaptable
- Use: street tree. Lawn tree for light shade
- Cultivars: ('Shademaster'; 'Moraine', 'Sunburst') are fruitless (males) and thornless (var. inermis)
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Tuliptree;
Tulip-poplar
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Liriodendron tulipifera |
- Size: large shade tree (75' tall by 45' wide); taller than wide. Very fast growing
- Flowers: unique 'tulip' flowers in May/June
- Fruit: not significant and somewhat messy
- Fall color: clear yellow
- Culture: very adaptable
- Use: shade tree, woodland
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Washington Hawthorn
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Crataegus phaenopyrum |
- Size: small sized tree (20' tall by 12' wide)
- Flowers: attractive white flowers April
- Fruit: showy red fruits in fall and winter
- Fall color: maroon fall color
- Culture: full sun. Adaptable to soils
- Disease/insect: cedar apple rust (Less susceptible to rust than other hawthorns, but still a concern)
- Uses: specimen
- More common in Northwest Arkansas
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Water Oak
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Quercus Nigra |
- Size: medium to large sized tree (60' tall by 60' wide)
- Flowers/fruits: not significant
- Fall color: no fall color; semi-evergreen. Distinctive leaf shape
- Culture: adaptable to soils
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: shade tree
- Red oak group
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Weeping Higan Cherry
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Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula' |
- Size: small sized tree (18' tall by 18' wide); weeping
- Flowers: beautiful early spring flowers; light pink
- Fruit: not significant. Pea-sized, red
- Fall color: none
- Culture: full sun. Best if rich, moist soil
- Use: fabulous weeping specimen
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Weeping White Mulberry
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Morus alba 'Pendula' |
- Size: small, specimen tree
- Flowers/fruit: not significant. Typically a male form so no problem with messy fruits
- Fall color: none
- Culture: very adaptable to soil. Full sun
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: specimen
- Cultivars: 'Chaparral', 'Pendula'
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Weeping Willow
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Salix alba 'Tristis' |
- Size: Cascading habit; 30' tall by 35' wide
- Flowers/fruits: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: loves wet soils, however tolerates dry soils
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: Useful near ponds, streams; Do not plant near septic lines; Short-lived
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White Ash
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Fraximus americana |
- Size: medium to large-sized tree (65' tall by 65' wide)
- Flowers/fruits: not significant
- Fall color: nice purple fall color
- Culture: very adaptable to soils
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Uses: shade tree, very fast growing, favored over green ash
- Cultivars: 'Autumn Purple', 'Royal Purple'
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White Oak
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Quercus alba |
- Size: large size tree (75' tall by 55' wide)
- Flowers/fruits: not significant
- Fall color: exceptional maroon fall color
- Culture: probably best in rich, deep soils
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: excellent, large, shade tree
- White oak group (rounded leaf lobes). Acorn germinates in the fall
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Willow Oak
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Quercus phellos |
- Size: medium to large sized tree (60' tall by 60' wide)
- Flowers/fruits: not significant
- Fall color: fair. Dull orange at best. Narrow willow-like leaves
- Culture: very adaptable to soils
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: probably in top three most common shade trees sold in Arkansas
- Red oak group (bristle tip; acorns ripen in 2 years)
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Winged Elm
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Ulmus alata |
- Size: medium sized native tree (45' tall by 45' wide)
- Flowers/fruits: not significant
- Fall color: none
- Culture: very adaptable
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Use: rarely planted in maintained landscapes
- Stems have distinctive corky 'wings'
- Native tree
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Zelkova
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Zelkova serrata |
- Size: small/medium sized tree (30' tall by 25' wide)
- Flowers/fruits: not significant
- Fall color: can be deep maroon but rarely see in Arkansas
- Culture: very adaptable
- Disease/insect: none
- Use: street tree, lawn tree
- Looks very much like an elm
- Cultivars: 'Green Vase', 'Village Green'
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