Shade Selection List: Small

Eastern redbud| flowering dogwood hawthorn|Crataegus American hornbeam Cercis canadensis |Cornus florida viridis ‘Winter King’ |Carpinus caroliniana

Height: 15 to 35 ft Height: 20 to 30 ft Height: 20 to 35 ft Height: 20 to 30 ft Width: 15 to 25 ft Width: 20 to 30 ft Width: 20 to 35 ft Width: 20 to 30 ft Sun: partial shade to full Sun: partial shade to full Sun: full sun Sun: full shade to full sun sun Soil: dry to medium wet sun Soil: well-drained to moist Soil: well-drained to moist Description: a tree noted Soil: well-drained to Description: a tree noted Description: a tree noted for its flowers in spring, red- moist for its pink springtime for its large springtime purple leaves in fall, and red Description: a slow- flowers that attracts flowers that attracts berries in winter. The Winter growing tree with butterflies and other butterflies and birds. King variety typically has springtime flowers and pollinators. fewer thorns. unique, muscle-like bark. flower fall flower fall flower fall x flower fall

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river | black gum| American holly| Betula nigra Nyssa sylvatica Ilex opaca

Height: 35 to 50 ft Height: 30 to 50 ft Height: 35 to 50 ft Width: 30 to 40 ft Width: 20 to 30 ft Width: 15 to 30 ft Sun: partial shade to full Sun: partial shade to full sun Sun: partial shade to full sun sun Soil: well-drained to moist Soil: well-drained to moist Soil: well-drained to wet Description: a slow-growing Description: a slow-growing Description: a fast- tree with scarlet leaves evergreen tree with spiny growing tree with flaking in fall and berries that attract leaves and red berries that bark that attracts birds. birds. attract birds. x flower fall x flower fall x flower fall

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bald cypress| American | Southern magnolia| | pin oak| Taxodium distichum Ulmus americana Magnolia grandiflora Quercus phellos

Height: 40 to 75 ft Height: 60 to 70 ft Height: 50 to 70 ft Height: 60 to 80 ft Height: 30 to 50 ft Width: 30 to 50 ft Width: 25 to 40 ft Width: 20 to 35 ft Width: 40 to 70 ft Width: 20 to 40 ft Sun: full sun Sun: full sun Sun: full sun Sun: medium to full sun Sun: partial shade to full Soil: medium to wet Soil: well-drained to very Soil: medium to very Soil: medium to very wet sun Description: a fast-growing wet wet Description: a large, Soil: well-drained to tree with leaves similar in Description: a fast-growing Description: a long- fast-growing tree. moist Reforest Montgomery shape to those of a willow. tree that has a narrower lived, conifer Description: a broadleaf plants the Princeton, Acorns: drops acorns form than the willow oak. that thrives in wet soil evergreen tree with large Accolade, Triumph, and annually starting around 15 Acorns: ½ inch long, but is drought tolerant. blooms in the late spring. Patriot varieties. years old starting around 20 years old x flower fall x flower fall flower fall x flower fall x flower fall

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sweetgum| London planetree| scarlet oak| American sycamore| Liquidambar styraciflua Platanus x acerifolia Quercus coccinea Platanus occidentalis

Height: 70 to 75 ft Height: 60 to 75 ft Height: 70 to 100 ft Height: 75 to 100 ft Width: 40 to 50 ft Width: 40 to 50 ft Width: 65 to 80 ft Width: 75 to 100 ft Sun: full sun Sun: full sun Sun: full sun Sun: full sun Soil: moist (drought sensitive) Soil: well-drained to wet Soil: dry to medium wet Soil: medium to wet Description: a fast-growing Description: a drought- Description: a species of Description: a tree with a mixture of orange, tolerant tree with notable oak notable for its brilliant large, fast-growing red, yellow, and purple colors mottled bark that is scarlet color in the fall. in fall. Spiny “sweetgum balls” similar to the American Acorns: drops acorns every tree with notable grow and fall annually. sycamore. 3-5 years, up to 1 inch long mottled bark. x flower fall x flower fall x flower fall x flower fall

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