Transcript Red Sunset - Tippecanoe County SWCD

2014 Native Tree Sale
Tree Photos & Descriptions
Red Sunset Maple
Acer rubrum ‘Red Sunset’
Height: 40-60’
Spread: 30-40’
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Site conditions: moist to wet, prefers acidic soil
Notes:
• Tolerates a variety of soil types
• Flood tolerant
• Fast -growing
• Pyramid or oval shape crown
• Small, red flowers in early spring
• Showy, red-orange color in early fall
• Cultivar of Red Maple
Ohio Buckeye
Aesculus glabra
Height: 20-60’
Spread: 20-50’
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Site conditions: moist to well-drained
Notes:
• Yellow-green flowers in spring
• Showy fruit (buckeyes)
• Broad, oval-shaped crown, low branching
• Fall color typically yellow, sometimes orange to red
• Drops twigs, fruit and leaves
• All parts are toxic and have unpleasant odor when
crushed
• Food source for squirrels
River Birch
Betula nigra
Height: 40-70’
Spread: 40-60’
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Site conditions: moist to wet
Notes:
• Peeling bark provides winter interest
• Fast-growing
• Irregular, spreading crown
• Well suited for areas that are seasonally wet
• Seeds eaten by wildlife
Northern Pecan
Carya illinoensis
Height: 70-100’
Spread: 40-75’
Sun: Sun to part shade
Site conditions: moist, well-drained soils
Notes:
• Edible nuts
• Round crown
• Drought tolerant
• Dropped fruit, leaves and pecan husks release a
substance which can stain clothes, vehicles,
pavement
• Low, spreading branches
Shagbark Hickory
Carya ovata
Height: 70-90’
Spread: 50-70’
Sun: full sun to part shade, shade-tolerant
Site conditions: moist, well-drained
Notes:
• Irregular, oblong crown
• Edible nuts
• Provides wildlife food and cover
• Hardy
• Gold-brown foliage in fall
• Slow growth
• Produces litter from bark, large leaves, and nuts
Persimmon
Diospyros virginiana
Height: 35-60’
Spread: 25-35’
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Site conditions: medium to dry sites
Notes:
• Drought tolerant
• Need male and female trees in order to set fruit
• Rounded oval crown
• Edible fruit in fall
• Wildlife eat fruit
• Slow-growing
• Orange fall foliage
Tulip Poplar
Liriodendron tulipifera
Height: 60-90’
Spread: 30-50’
Sun: Full sun, sun part shade, shade
Site conditions: moist to well-drained
Notes:
• State Tree of Indiana
• Large, yellow, tulip-like flowers in spring
• Yellow foliage in fall
• Oval-shaped crown
• Intolerant of compacted soils
• Flowers attract pollinators
• Tall, straight trunk
Black Gum
Nyssa sylvatica
Height: 30-50’
Spread: 20-30’
Sun: full sun to part shade
Site conditions: moist to wet
Notes:
• Also called Black Tupelo
• Tolerates poorly drained soils, and somewhat
drought tolerant
• Need a male and female tree to set fruit
• Fruit is dark blue
• Wildlife eat fruit
• Slow-growing
• Rounded crown
• Small flowers excellent for pollinators
• Showy fall foliage (ranges from yellow, orange,
red, burgundy)
Black Cherry
Prunus serotina
Height: 50-80’
Spread: 30-60’
Sun: full sun to part shade
Site conditions: moist to well-drained
Notes:
• Showy, fragrant white flowers in spring
• Clusters of red cherries than turn to purple-black
in late summer
• Wildlife eat fruit
• Fruit often used for jams and jellies
• Yellow fall foliage
• Fast-growing
• Drops leaves, twigs and fruit
• Can be alleopathic to garden plants
• All parts of plant except fruit is toxic
Swamp White Oak
Quercus bicolor
Height: 50-60’
Spread: 50-60’
Sun: full sun
Site conditions: moist to dry sites
Notes:
• Broad, rounded crown and short trunk
• Fall color is yellow, occasionally red-purple
• Acorns in early fall
• Drought resistant
• Durable and long-lived
• Fast growing
• Heavy acorn production every 3 to 5 years with
light crops between
• Wildlife feed on acorns
• Produces litter from small twigs and acorns
Bur Oak
Quercus macrocarpa
Height: 60-80’
Spread: 60-80’
Sun: full sun
Site conditions: moist to dry
Notes:
• Drought tolerant
• Broad-spreading, rounded crown
• Acorns are an important food source for wildlife
• Fall color is yellow-brown
• Largest acorn of all native oaks
• Fast-growing
Pin Oak
Quercus palustris
Height: 50-70’
Spread: 40-60’
Sun: full sun
Site conditions: moist to wet
Notes:
• Tolerates some flooding
• Fall foliage is russet, bronze, red
• Spreading, horizontal branches with slender twigs
• Conical crown, straight trunk
• Fast-growing
• Acorns import wildlife food source
• Some leaves persist through winter
Red Oak
Quercus rubra
Height: 50-75’
Spread: 50-75’
Sun: full sun
Site conditions: moist to dry
Notes:
• Broad, spreading crown
• Fast-growing
• Good acorn production every 2 to 5 years
• Acorns are important wildlife food source
• Fall color is dark red-orange
• Tolerant of pollution and compacted soils
Sassafras
Sassafras albidum
Height: 30-60’
Spread: 25-40’
Sun: full sun to part shade
Site conditions: moist to well-drained
Notes:
• Tolerates dry, sandy soils
• Spreads by root suckers
• Need male and female trees to produce fruit
• Dark blue berries produced in fall
• Three different shaped leaves on the same tree
• Excellent fall color ranging from yellow, red,
burgundy
• Aromatic
• Alleopathic to some plants
• Does well in disturbed sites with infertile soils
• Birds eat fruit
Bald Cypress
Taxodium distichum
Height: 50-70’
Spread: 20-45’
Sun: full sun
Site conditions: dry to wet (including shallow water)
Notes:
• Conifer that drops it’s needles in the fall
• Can produce knobby root growths (“knees”) in
shallow water
• Turns orange-brown color in the fall
• Round purple-green cones
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Red Maple - Rosy maple moth, native bees
Allegheny Serviceberry – native bees
Indigo Bush - California , Southern dogfaces, Silver-Spotted Skipper, Gray Hairstreak, Hoary Edge Skipper, native bees
Northern Pecan – Gray Hairstreak
Buttonbush –Titan spinx moth, Hydrangea sphinx moth, native bees, bumble bees, honey bees
Redbud - native bees, bumble bees
Pagoda Dogwood - Spring Azure
Flowering Dogwood - Spring Azure, native bees
Persimmon – Luna Moth, honey bees
Spicebush – Spicebush swallowtail, Promethea silkmoth, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Tulip Poplar -Eastern Swallowtail butterfly, Tuliptree Silkmoth, honey bees
Black Gum – honey bees
American Plum – honey bees
Black Cherry – New England buckmoth, Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Viceroy, Columbia silkmoth, native bees, bumble bees,
honey bees
Bur Oak - Edwards Hairstreak , Horaces Duskywing
Pin Oak - Gray Hairstreak
Red Oak - Gray Hairstreak
Sassafras - Spicebush butterfly, Promethea silkmoth, Pale swallowtail, Palamedes butterflies
Pussy Willow – Mourning Cloak, Viceroy, native bees, honey bees, bumble bees
Steeplebush - Columbia silkmoth, native bees
Coralberry - Hummingbird Clearwing moth, native bees
Bald Cypress - Baldcypress sphinx moth
Arrowwood Viburnum - Spring Azure, native bees, bumble bees
Blackhaw Viburnum – native bees, bumble bees