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Scientific Name |
Common Name |
Comments |
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Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigiata’
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Fastigiate; European Hornbeam |
- Size: small sized tree (20' tall by 8' wide)
- Flowers & fruit: not significant
- Fall color: yellowish, like a hickory
- Culture: adaptable
- Disease/insect: none significant
- Use: good urban tree
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Carya illinoinensis
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Pecan |
- Size: medium to large sized tree (65' tall by 75' wide). Often a symmetrical, cascading vase shape
- Flowers: not significant and messy
- Fruits: edible pecan. Takes 8 to 12 years before they fruit
- Fall color: fair. Sometimes a deep yellow
- Culture: fairly adaptable
- Insect/disease: fall webworm
- Use: not typically used in highly maintained landscapes
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Catalpa speciosa
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Northern Catalpa |
- Size: medium sized tree (45' tall by 30' wide)
- Flowers: beautiful white flowers in May
- Fruit: cigar shaped pod. Messy
- Fall color: none. Leaves distinctive heart shaped leaves
- Culture: adaptable
- Use: rarely used in well maintained landscapes since weak wooded, messy leaves and fruits
- Actually one of two species in the state. The other is C. bignonioides (Southern Catalpa)
which flowers 2-3 weeks later.
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Cedrus deodara
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Deodar Cedar |
- Size: needle evergreen (55' tall by 50' wide)
- Flowers: not significant
- Fruit: beautiful cone
- Culture: full sun. Best in rich, moist soil. Provide adequate water. Less cold hardy than
C. atlantica
- Use: specimen
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Celtis laevigata
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Southern Hackberry; Sugar Hackberry |
- Size: medium sized tree (50' tall by 50' wide)
- Flowers: not significant
- Fruit: small 'berry', birds love
- Fall color: not significant
- Bark: distinctive gray, warty branches
- Culture: very adaptable
- Disease/insect: Asian woolly hackberry aphid
- Use: native; rarely planted in landscapes. Weak wooded
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Cercis canadensis
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Eastern Redbud |
- Size: small sized tree (18' tall by 18' wide)
- Flowers: very attractive pink-purple (white form 'Alba' also available but not as common) flowers early spring
- Fruit: small pod
- Fall color: none
- Culture: best in partial shade; best with constant moisture
- Disease/insect: none significant. Occasional canker
- Use: specimen small flowering tree; woodland
- Cultivars ‘Oklahoma’ (texensis) more drought tolerant, ‘Alba’ (white flowered form),
'Forest Pansy' (purple leaves)
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Chionanthus virginicus
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Fringetree;
Grancy Gray-beard |
- Size: large shrub/small-sized tree (20' tall by 20' wide)
- Flowers: dramatic lacy white flowers mid-April
- Fruit: not significant. Dark blue drupe
- Fall color: none
- Culture: adaptable. Even flowers well in shade
- Disease/insect: none
- Uses: woodland landscape
- Native
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Cornus florida
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Eastern Flowering Dogwood |
- Size: small sized tree (15' tall by 20' wide)
- Flowers: exceptional flower (bracts) display in early spring
- Fruits: noticeable red fruits in spring
- Fall color: attractive maroon
- Culture: best in partial shade and adequate moisture during Arkansas summer months
- Disease/insect: leaf spots
- Uses: small flowering tree, woodland
- Cultivars: many for larger bracts and bract color (pink)
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Cornus kousa
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Kousa Dogwood |
- Size: small sized tree (18' tall by 22' wide)
- Flowers: 3 to 4 weeks after C. florida. Bract is pointed in contrast to C. florida (notched)
- Fruit: red, looks like a strawberry
- Fall color: nice orange /red fall color
- Culture: slightly more tolerant of heat than C. florida
- Disease/insect: none serious
- Uses: small flowering tree
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Crataegus phaenopyrum
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Washington Hawthorn |
- 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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Elaeagnus angustifolia *
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Russian-olive |
- Size: small sized tree (20' tall by 25' wide)
- Flowers: small, yellow, fragrant, not showy
- Fruit: not significant
- Fall color: none; Distinctive silver foliage
- Culture: very tough. Full sun
- Disease/insect: Verticillium wilt, canker
- Uses: avoid in landscapes, short-lived, weak wooded, very fast growing
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