1. Week 7 ID
Deciduous Trees

2. Japanese Maple Acer palmatum
Height: 8-20’
Spread: 10-15’
5-7 lobes; Green or Red leaves
Purple/red flower
Samara fruit
Very expensive (comes in many different varieties)
Shade

3. Norway Maple Acer platanoides
Height: 60-80’
Spread: 50-70’
Greenish-yellow leaves
4-7 lobes with sharp serration
Shade

4. Red Maple Acer rubrum Height: 40-50’ Spread: 25-35’
Green leaves with red petioles
3-5 lobes
Red cluster flower before leaves
Sun-shade

5. River Birch Betula nigra
Height: 20-40’
Spread: 16-20’
Alternate leaves and double serrate
Green, catkin flower
Part shade
Peeling bark
Multi-stemmed trunk

6. Eastern Red Bud Cercis canadensis
Height: 20-30’
Spread: 15-25’
Cordate leaf (pink or green)
Pink cluster flowers
Green pod fruit
Zig-zag stem
Sun-part shade

7. Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida
Height: 15-30’
Spread: 15-20’
White, head shaped flower with brown indentions at the edge
Wavy leaves
Part shade-shade

8. Chinese Dogwood Cornus kousa
Height: 10-15’
Spread: 10’
Flower buds at mid-April
4 bracts that come to a point
Raspberry type fruit
Sun-part shade

9. Ginkgo Ginkgo baloba Height: 40-70’ Spread: 20-40’
Green fan shaped leaves; fall color is yellow
Plum like fruit in fall
Sun
Don’t plant female tree-IT STINKS!!

10. Thornless Honeylocust Gleditsia tricanthos var. inermis
Height: 50-70’
Spread: 25-40’
Pinnately compound leaves 7-12” long
Twisted pod fruit
Sun

11. Crape Myrtle Lagerstroemia indica
Height: 15-25’
Spread: 5-15’
Medium green, ovate leaves
Panicle flower in white, pink, red or lavender
Flower of 100 days (chinese name)
Smooth multi-stemmed bark (only when pruned correctly)
Sun

12. Sweetgum Liquidambar strycaflua
Height: ’
Spread: 50-75’
5-7 lobed, star shaped leaves
Synacarp in fall and winter
Part shade-sun

13. Saucer Magnolia Magnolia x soulangiana cv.
Height: 15-25’
Spread: 15-25’
Green, elliptical leaves
Flowers like a cup on a saucer in purple or white and appear before leaves in March
Sun-Part shade