Street Trees Planning & Community Development

Recommended Street Tree Planting

Small Trees: 15’ to 25’ height. Appropriate under lower power lines. Good for standard 5’ planting strips.

Botanical Name Height Spread Flowers Fall Color Comments/Notes Common Name in feet in feet Acer ginnala ‘Flame’ Amur 20 20 red Select for single stem; Maple can be multi-trunked. Acer grandidentatum 25 15 yellow to Intense Fall color. ‘Schmidt’ red Rocky Mt. Glow Maple Acer griseum 25 20 red Smooth, peeling, Paperbark Maple cinnamon colored bark. Acer palmatum 20 24 small red yellow, Hundreds of varied Japanese Maple orange, red cultivars. Can be slow growing. Acer platanoides ‘Globosum’ 15 18 yellow Rounded top, aka Globe Norway Maple lollipop top, and compact growth. Amelanchier x grandiflora 25 20 white bright red Good for limited ’Princess Diana’ space. Select for single Serviceberry stem. Amelanchier x grandiflora 20 15 white bright red Reliable bloom. Light ‘Autumn Brilliance’ grey bark. Serviceberry Cercis canadensi 25 30 pink yellow Blooms before leaves Eastern Redbud are out. Cornus kousa 20 20 white reddish to Most resistant to Chinensis’ Chinese Kousa scarlet diseases of dogwood, Dogwood drought resistant. Fraxinus pennsylvanica 18 16 yellow A miniature in every ‘Johnson’ Leprechaun Ash way. Magnolia x loebneri 20 20 white yellow Single stem cultivars with mature height of 20’. Oxydendrum arboretum 20 15 white orange, Slow growing. Sourwood scarlet

Medium Trees: 26’ to 49’ height. Not appropriate under lower power lines. Good for standard 5’ or larger planting strips (wider planting strips recommended where space allows).

Botanical Name Height Spread Flowers Fall Color Comments/Notes Common Name in feet in feet Acer campestre 35 30 yellow More upright ‘Evelyn’ Queen Elizabeth branching than the Maple species. Acer platanoides 35 15 yellow Narrow and upright. ‘Columnar’ Columnar Norway Maple Acer platanoides 40 25 yellow yellow ‘Parkway’ Parkway Maple Acer pseudoplatanus 40 30 not Leaves green on top, ‘Atropurpureum’ Spaethii significant purple underneath. Maple Acer rubrum 40 15 yellow Narrow and tightly ‘Bowhall’ Bowhall Maple orange formed. Acer rubrum 40 20 yellow to May work under very ‘Karpick’ Karpick Maple red high power lines with arborist’s approval. Acer rubrum 40 20 yellow ‘Scarsen’ Scarlet Sentinel orange Maple Acer truncatum x A. 35 25 yellow yellow- platanoides orange/red ‘Keithsform’ Norwegian Sunset Maple Acer truncatum x A. 30 25 yellow yellow- Early Fall color. platanoides orange/red ‘Warren Red’ Pacific Sunset Maple Aesculus x carnea 30 35 large 10” no Smaller and resists ‘Briottii’ Red Horsechestnut red heat and drought clusters better than other horse chestnuts. Betula jacquemontii 40 30 yellow White bark makes for Jacquemontii Birch good winter interest. Carpinus betulus ‘Columnar’ 40 20 yellow Columnar European Hornbeam Carpinus betulus ‘Fastigiata’ 35 25 yellow Symmetrical, heat and Pyramidal European drought resistant. Hornbeam Fagus sylvatica 40 12 no Purple foliage, ‘Dawyck Purple’ Dawyck branches erect and Purple Beech close together. Fraxinus americana ‘Autumn 40 25 purple Applause’ Ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica 45 35 yellow Extremely hardy, may ‘Patmore’ Patmore Ash be seedless. Ginko biloba 45 35 yellow ‘Autumn Gold’ Autumn Gold Ginko Ginko biloba 40 15 yellow Very narrow growth. ‘Princeton Sentry’ Princeton Sentry Ginko Gleditsia triacanthos 45 35 not yellow Do not confuse with Shademaster Honeylocust noticeable ‘Sunburst’. Koelreuteria paniculata 30 30 bright yellow Midsummer blooming. Goldenrain Tree yellow Malus 28 14 white scarlet Sparse green fruit, ‘Tschonoskii’ Tschonoskii pyramidal. Crabapple Parrotia persica Persian 30 20 Showy yellow - Select for single stem; Parrotia Stamens orange red can be multi-trunked. Pyrus calleryana ‘Aristocrat’ 40 28 white red Pear Pyrus calleryana 30 25 white scarlet Vigorous. ‘Autumn Blaze’ Pear Pyrus calleryana 35 12 white copper Smaller than ‘Capital’ Pear ‘Aristocrat’, may break up in snow. Pyrus calleryana 35 25 white yellow to Pyramidal. ‘Redspire’ Pear red Quercus alba x Quercus robur 45 15 rusty red Columnar, mildew ‘Chrimschmidt’ Crimson Spire resistant. Oak Quercus robur 45 15 yellow- Columnar variety of ‘fastigiata’ Skyrocket Oak brown oak. Styrax japonicas 25 25 white yellow Plentiful, green ½” Japanese Snowbell seeds. Tilia americana x euchlora 35 20 fragrant yellow Pyramidal, needs ‘Redmond’ Redmond Linden water. Tilia cordata 35 20 not yellow Pyramidal. ‘Chancole’ Linden noticeable Tilia cordata 35 20 not yellow Pyramidal. ‘Chancole’ Chancelor Linden noticeable Tilia cordata 40 30 yellowish Symmetrical, ‘Greenspire’ Greenspire pyramidal form. Linden Zelkova serrata ‘Musashino’ 45 20 Musashino Zelkova Zelkova serrata 40 38 rusty red ‘Village Green’ Village Green Zelkova

Large Trees: Not appropriate under wires. Good for planting strips great than 8’ (wider planting strips recommended where space allows).

Botanical Name Height Spread Flowers Fall Color Comments/Notes Common Name in feet in feet Acer freemanii 50 40 orange-red Autumn Blaze Maple Acer nigurm 50 20 yellow- Good heat resistance. ‘Greencolumn’ Greencolumn apricot Maple Acer platanoides 50 40 yellow ‘Emerald Queen’ Emerald Queen Maple Cercidiphyllum japonicum 40 40 yellow to Heart-shaped foliage. Katsura Tree orange Fagus sylvatica 50 35 yellow to Slow growing. ‘Zlatia’ Zlatia Beech golden green Fraxinus pennsylvanica 50 40 deep bronze ‘Urbanite’ Urbanite Ash Quercus ruba Red Oak 50 45 red Fast growing. Ulmus parvifolia 50 35 yellow - Disease tolerant: ‘Emer II’ PP#7552 Allee Elm orange to Dutch Elm and rust red Phloem Necrosis.