List of Recommended Street Trees
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The Shade Tree Commission of the Borough of Lewisburg LIST OF RECOMMENDED STREET TREES This is not an exhaustive list; there may be other appropriate street trees. Contact the Shade Tree Commission if you wish to plant a tree that does not appear on the list. Small Trees: Average mature height less than 30 feet Botanical Name Common Name Cultivar Acer buergerianum Trident Maple Acer tataricum Tatarian Maple Amelanchier x grandiflora Apple Serviceberry ‘Autumn Brilliance’ ‘Princess Diana’ ‘Robin Hill Pink’ Amelanchier laevis Allegheny Serviceberry Cercis canadensis Eastern Redbud Cornus kousa (tree form) Kousa Dogwood (S) (tree form) Cornus kousa x C. florida Kousa Dogwood (S) ‘Rutcan’ CONSTELLATION Crataegus crus-galli inermis Thornless Cockspur Hawthorn (S) Crataegus laevigata English Hawthorn (S) ‘Crimson Cloud’ Crataegus phaenopyrum Washington Hawthorn (S) Crataegus viridis Hawthorn ‘Winter King’ Malus Flowering Crabapple ‘Prairiefire’ Malus ‘Sutyzam’ Flowering Crabapple ‘Sugar tyme’ Parrotia persica Persian Ironwood ‘Vanessa’ Avoid multi-stem varieties Prunus ‘Okame’ Taiwan Cherry ‘Okame’ Prunus sargentii ‘Columnaris’ Sargent Cherry (S) (upright form with columnar to narrow vase-shaped branching) Prunus serrulata Japanese Flowering Cherry (S) ‘Kwanzan’ Prunus x yedoensis Yoshino Cherry (S) Syringa reticulata Japanese Tree Lilac ‘Ivory Silk’ ‘Regent’ ‘Summer Snow’ Medium Trees: Average mature height 35-50 feet Botanical Name Common Name Cultivar Acer campestre Hedge Maple Aesculus x carnea Red Horse Chestnut ‘Briotii’ Carpinus betulus European Hornbeam* (S) DO NOT PLANT ‘Columnaris’ Carpinus caroliniana American Hornbeam * (S) Koelreuteria paniculata Golden Rain Tree Ostrya virginiana American Hophornbeam* Quercus acutissima Sawtooth Oak (S) Robinia pseudoacacia Black Locust ‘Purple Robe’ Sassafras albidum Sassafras Styphnolobium japonica Japanese Pagoda Tree Chinese Scholar Tree The Shade Tree Commission of the Borough of Lewisburg LIST OF RECOMMENDED STREET TREES Large Trees: Average mature height 50 feet or more Botanical Name Common Name Cultivar Acer rubrum Red Maple (S) Acer saccharum Sugar Maple Acer x freemanii Freeman Maple ‘Jeffersred’ AUTUMN BLAZE ‘Scarsen’ SCARLETT SENTINEL ‘Celebration’ Celtis occidentalis Hackberry (S) ‘Prairie Pride’ Celtis laevigata Sugarberry/Sugar Hackberry (S) ‘Magnifica’ Cercidiphyllum japonicum Katsura Tree Ginkgo biloba Maidenhair Tree Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis Thornless Honey Locust ‘Imperial’, ‘Shademaster’ ‘Ruby Lace’ or ‘Skyline’ Liquidambar styraciflua Sweet Gum* DO NOT PLANT ‘Slender Silhouette’ Liriodendron tulipifera Tulip Tree Magnolia acuminata Cucumber Tree Nyssa sylvatica Black Tupelo (must prune low branches for sidewalk clearance) Platanus x acerifolia London Planetree ‘Bloodgood’ Quercus bicolor Swamp White Oak (S) Quercus imbricaria Shingle Oak (S) Quercus palustris Pin Oak (S) Quercus rubra Red Oak/Northern Red Oak (S) Quercus shumardii Shumard Oak (S) Tilia cordata Littleleaf Linden Tilia tomentosa Silver Linden Ulmus americana American Elm ‘Liberty’, ‘Valley Forge’ Zelkova serrata Zelkova (S) Shade Tree Commission of the Borough of Lewisburg LIST OF “Do Not Plant” TREES Botanical Name Common Name Cultivar Acer saccharinum Silver Maple Acer negundo Box Elder Acer platanoides Norway Maple Ailanthus altissima Tree of Heaven Albizia julibrissin Mimosa Fraxinus spp. Ash Platanus occidentalis Sycamore Populus deltoides Cottonwood Pyrus calleryana Callery (Bradford) Pear Quercus alba White Oak *Fastigiate (columnar) varieties of tree species are not allowed. (S) denotes a preferred Spring planting to give roots time to establish .