Shade Trees - Acer (Maple)
Autumn Blaze
Red Sunset
Red Sunset
Height: 50-60'
Spread: 40'
Shape: Dense oval head
Foliage: Rich green, deeply lobed
Fall Foliage: Orange-red
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-7
This hybrid of silver and red maple has experienced phenomenal popularity due to its ascending branch habit, rapid growth rate, drought tolerance, ability to grow in most soils, beautiful fall color and form.
Red Sunset
Red Sunset
Red Sunset
Height: 40-50’
Spread: 35-40’
Shape: Pyramid to rounded
Foliage: Green
Fall Foliage: Orange to Red
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-7
Red Sunset has brilliant orange to scarlet leaves in the early fall. Spring flowers, leaf stems, branch tips, and the fruits are all tinged red for a dramatic display year-round. Upright and spreading in its youth, becoming pyramidal to rounded as it matures. The fast growth habit of this female selection makes this large shade tree an excellent choice for the landscape.
Royal Red
Red Sunset
Royal Red
Height: 35-40'
Spread: 25'
Shape: Broadly oval
Foliage: Bright red, glossy
Fall Foliage: Insignificant
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-7
This Norway maple selection is similar to 'Crimson King', but with a somewhat slower growth rate and what some
consider slightly better color. A dense shade tree, it has a straight trunk with a well-shaped canopy. The glossy foliage is an excellent maroon red all season.
Brandywine
Fall Fiesta Sugar
Royal Red
Height: 25’
Spread: 12'
Shape: Oval
Foliage: Medium green
Fall Foliage: Purple Red
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
The long-lasting fall color
gradually turns from red to
brilliant reddish purple. A
medium-sized shade tree with an oval crown and significant leafhopper resistance. Although adaptable to a wide range of conditions, prefers a slightly acidic, moist, well-drained soil.
Fall Fiesta Sugar
Fall Fiesta Sugar
Fall Fiesta Sugar
Height: 50-75’
Spread: 50’
Shape: Upright, rounded
Foliage: glossy, leathery green
Fall Foliage: Orange, Red
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-7
The branching is full and symmetrical. Leathery, glossy, deep green leaves are resistant to leaf tatter and leafhopper damage. A rapid grower, easy to transplant and also resistant to sun scald and frost cracks. Outstanding fall color, shows far more oranges and reds than other sugar maples. Prefers a moist yet well-drained soil with a slight acidity.
Flame Amur
Fall Fiesta Sugar
Fall Fiesta Sugar
Height: 20'
Spread: 20'
Shape: Shapely, small
Foliage: Red Fall Color
Zone: 3-8
A spectacular choice for its reliable blazing red fall color and bright red fruits in summer, this is a shapely small tree; very hardy and
adaptable, great as a fall accent in smaller home landscapes
Hot Wings Tatarian
Hot Wings Tatarian
Hot Wings Tatarian
Height: 15-18’
Width: 15-18’
Foliage: Medium green
Fall Foliage: Orange-Red
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4
For six weeks breath-taking scarlet red samaras (helicopters) contrasting with the rich green foliage giving it a look of being in bloom. Clusters of yellow white flowers cover the tree after the leaves appear. Fall leaf color transforms from orange red on the outside of the tree to yellow in the middle.
October Glory
Hot Wings Tatarian
Hot Wings Tatarian
Height: 50-60’
Spread: 35-40’
Shape: Broad, Oval
Foliage: Green
Fall Foliage: Crimson red
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 5-8
This terrific red maple is most impressive for its intense crimson red fall color, even under less than perfect circumstances. The color lasts much longer than many other red maples. The wings of the samara display an attractive reddish tinge as well.
Shade Trees - Betula Nigra
Paper Birch
Height: 40'
Spread: 30'
Shape: Pyramidal, Rounded
Foliage: Deep Green
Fall Foliage: Yellow
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 2-7
This very hardy birch is
the most permanent and
desirable of all the
white-barked birches.
Stems are a beautiful
red-brown when immature, a perfect chalk-white when older. Fall color is an outstanding landscape feature. Clumps have three or more stems.
Shade Trees - Cercis
Redbud MN Strain
Height: 20-30'
Spread: 20-25'
Shape: Vase
Foliage: Deep Green
Fall Foliage: Yellow
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-7
Small pink flowers appear
in spring before leaves
appear. It does well in
sun and part shade.
Selected for hardiness by
U. Minn.
Shade Tree - Cornus
Milky Way Dogwood
Height: 20-30’
Width: 20-30’
Fall Foliage: Red to Orange
Exposure: Full Sun to Part Shade
Z one: 5
Robust, spreading small tree. In spring, large creamy-white star-shaped flowers cover the tree. The blossoms give way to large pinkish-red, strawberry-like fruit in summer. In the fall, the foliage turns to red and orange. In the winter the bark is a mottled, tan, and gray color.
Shade Trees - Gled
Sunburst Honeylocust
Height: 35’,
Width: 30-35’
Zone: 4
Foliage emerges a brilliant yellow, fading to light green, seedless and thornless, attractive lime green foliage which emerges gold in spring leaves are highly ornamental and turn an outstanding yellow in the fall.
Shade Trees - Ginko
Princeton Sentry
Height: 40-50’
Spread: 20-30'
Shape: upright, columnar
Foliage: Green
Fall Foliage:golden yellow
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-8
Princeton Sentry® Gingko is a large tree with a formal upright and columnar habit. The chartreuse fan-shaped leaves turn golden yellow in the fall. Pest and disease resistant. Tolerant of salt and air pollution. A grafted male selection from Princeton Nursery that is fruitless and a slow grower.
Deciduous Trees -Gymnocladus dioicus
Kentucky Coffee Tree
Height: 70’
Width: 40-50’
Shape: Irregular Oval
Season of Interest: Early spring and late fall
Tolerances: Alkaline soil, Dry sites, Occasional drought, Road salt, Wet sites
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3 -6
A large fast growing tree when young and slows as it ages. Leaves are 1-2’ long but divided into many small leaflets in a feathery fashion so it throws only a light shade. Foliage is a bronzy-pink in the spring, turning a rich green during the summer and a clear yellow in the fall. Flowers in the spring & puts on giant brown beans 6-8” long which may be roasted & used as a coffee substitute. The spreading branches create a bold shape (some call it a perfect "Halloween tree") in the fall and winter landscape, making this a decorative tree for all seasons.
Shade Trees - Liriodendron
Tuliptree
Height: 70’-90’
Spread: 35’–50’'
Shape: Pyramidal to oval
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 5-9
A stately tree for large spaces. Flowers May through early June with attractive green-yellow blossoms that have a tangerine tint at the base of the petals. Attractive yellow fall color. Prefers moist, well-drained and slightly acidic soil. Never or rarely fed on by Japanese beetles.
Shade Trees - Magnolia
Galaxy Pink
Height: 20' to 30'
Spread: 10' to 15'
Bloom Time: April to June
Bloom Description: Rose-pink to reddish-purple
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Zone: 5 to 9
This is a large, narrow-pyramidal, deciduous single trunk tree with ascending branching. It typically matures over time to 20-30' (infrequently to 40’) tall. Fragrant rose-pink to reddish-purple flowers (each to 6-12” across) bloom in late April to early June. Each flower features up to 12 showy petal-like tepals. Large, ovate, medium green leaves (each to 9" long) appear in whorl-like clusters at the branchlet tips.
Shade Trees - Populus Canadensis
Robusta Poplar
Height: 40-60'
Spread: 30-40'
Shape: Broad, oval
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-9
This fast-growing cotton-less cottonwood is seedless
hybrid introduced by the University of Minnesota. A
vigorous smaller cultivar, it is well suited to moderate and arid conditions.
Deciduous Trees - Quercus
Northern Red Oak
Northern Red Oak
Northern Red Oak
Height: 60-80'
Spread: 50'
Shape: Pyramidal in Youth,
Rounded at Maturity
Foliage: Glossy, dark Green
Fall Foliage: Red to red-brown
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-8
The fastest growing oak and one of the easiest to transplant. The foliage is dense and lustrous and leaves hang on the tree into winter. One of the
handsomest, cleanest, and stateliest trees and it is widely considered a national treasure. This large tree is also known for its brilliant fall color. One of the handsomest, cleanest, and stateliest trees in North America, and it is widely considered anational treasure. It is especially valued for its adaptability and usefulness, including its hardiness. This large tree is also known for its brilliant fall color.
Burr Oak
Northern Red Oak
Northern Red Oak
Height: 60-80'
Spread: 60-80'
Shape: Rounded, open
Foliage: Dark green, greyish beneath
Fall Foliage: Yellow-brown to purple
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-8
This beautiful oak has attractive corky bark especially interesting in winter. A great xeriscape plant, it tolerates a wide range of soil types and air pollutants The stately bur oak, native to the Midwest, is a great choice as a shade tree and for specimen plantings in parks, spacious yards, and other large areas. Its massive trunk has gray to brown furrowed bark and its branches bear lustrous dark green leaves that turn yellow-brown in fall. Large acorns with fringed caps attract birds and small mammals.
Northern Pin Oak
Northern Red Oak
Northern Pin Oak
Height: 60'
Spread: 45'
Shape: conical to broad oval
Foliage: Glossy Green
Fall Foliage: Red
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 3-6
This native tree is well adapted to sandy, acid soils, but will tolerate heavier soils and more alkaline conditions than Pin oak. It is great for use as a specimen tree in lawn or boulevard plantings. The northern pin oak trunk tapers rapidly with branches drooping at their ends which forming a narrow, open crown. The bark is rather smooth and divided by shallow fissures into irregular ridges and plates. Grayish to dark brown in color with an inner reddish-colored bark. Leaves are simple and grow alternately on the stem. They are somewhat oblong or oval in shape. The leaves typically have seven lobes, each one bristle-pointed and separated by rounded openings that extend nearly to the midrib. The leaves are bright red and hairy in early spring, turning green later, and then a bright scarlet in the autumn. The fruit of northern pin oak is a bitter acorn that takes two years to mature. They are bright green in the summer turning reddish-brown in the fall.
Deciduous Trees - Salix
Niobe Weeping Willow
Height: 30-50'
Spread: 20-30’
Shape: Broad, rounded, weeping
Foliage: Light Green
Fall Foliage: Yellow
Exposure: Full Sun to part shade
Zone: 6-8
An old species originating in China. Broad, round head that is dense, refined, and gracefully weeping. Prone to late spring frosts. Known for its bright yellow hue, Niobe Weeping Willow is an amazing Willow cultivar. In a corner or garden that has enough room for the tree’s expansion, plant it. Other trees may have difficulty growing in low, wet areas of your property, but this tree thrives in such conditions.
Deciduous Trees - Tilia Cordate Linden
Littleleaf
American Linden
American Linden
Height: 35-45'
Spread: 30-35'
Shape: Broad, pyramidal
Foliage: Glossy, dark green
Fall Foliage: Yellow
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-7
Long-lived Littleleaf is a large tree of pyramidal habit when young and becoming more rounded with age. Densely branched, it is clothed with glossy, heart-shaped, dark green leaves up to 3" long, turning yellow in the fall. In early summer fragrant creamy-white flowers apread in the tree. Rich in nectar, they are highyly attractive to bees. Tolerant of heavy pruning, it may be grown as a hedge.Prefers moist, fertile, well-drained loams.
American Linden
American Linden
American Linden
Height: 60-80'
Spread: 30-60'
Shape: Broad, pyramidal to rounded
Foliage: Dark green
Exposure: Full Sun
Zone: 4-7
Tree's flowers are attractive to bees and linden is an important source of excellent honey. Hollow linden trees found in the woods are often filled with honey. The attractive white wood of linden is often used for beehive honey frames. The fragrant flowers are also distilled for use in perfumes.
The tree's edible leaves have been used for livestock and human consumption and the fibrous, pliable inner bark (bast) was a significant source of fiber for ropes, cords, mats and nets used by Native Americans and early European settlers.Because it is a source of bast, the common name "basswood" is derived. Oil from the linden seed pod has been extracted and used as a substitute for olive oil.