Like the Roughleaf Dogwood, the Flowering Dogwood prefers a partly shady-to shady location. Plant in rich, sandy, or loamy soil that’s slightly acidic. Other Common Names: Virginia Dogwood, Florida Dogwood, White Cornel, Arrowwood, American Boxwood, St.Peter’s Crown, False Box, Corona de San PedroĪverage Size at Maturity: 15-20 ft tall and 15-2- ft wide They work well as a single specimen or planted in groups, and their horizontal branches provide dappled shade. The Honeylocust is a moderately fast-growing tree, commonly found in moist lowlands and limestone soils. Its tolerance to drought and salinity has increased its popularity both in preventing soil erosion and for urban planting where it is used in many instances to replace the elm. It’s better suited to the Northwest of Arkansas. The Honeylocust is tolerant of a range of both wetter and drier areas. Male trees will produce no fruit and have no thorns, making maintenance easier than on other messier species. The form of this tree varies specimens can be seen growing tall with a rounded top with ascending, arching branches, or lower spreading branches. The leaves are once compound, and the flowers appear on elongated racemes between 2-5” long from leaf axils on young branches. Male and female flowers are typically on different branches. They are green/yellow and for both sexes, the calyx holding the flower is 5-lobed.Īverage Size at Maturity: 60-80 ft tall and 30-70 ft wide The American Smoke Tree is native to Kentucky, Tennessee, and Northern Alabama. It has an upright branching habit and is usually multi-trunked, with an open crown and spreading branches. It’s a short trunked tree and features blue-green leaves that turn an eye-catching shade of fire red and orange in the fall. Six to ten-inch flower pannicles develop red or purple petioles that amidst crowded flower clusters, give a smoky appearance when fluttering in a breeze of wind. The actual flower itself is small and not showy. The gnarled bark is another ornamental feature of this tree, as is the flaking bark. The American Smoke Tree is disease-resistant, drought-tolerant, and adapted to the stony soils of its native range. Other Common Names: Texas Smoke Tree, Wild Smoke Tree, Smoke Tree, Smoke Bush, ChittamwoodĪverage Size at Maturity: 15-20 ft tall and 15-25 ft wide Don’t over-water or over-fertilize for best results. The Sweetgum is a large, open-crowned aromatic tree with a straight trunk and a conical crown that becomes round and spreads with age. It features deep, glossy green deciduous leaves that are five-lobed, making a star shape. The fall foliage is purple and red and doesn’t require very cold temperatures to change color. The fruit are small, globular, horny, woody balls 1” in diameter that hang on the stem and persists through January. The Sweetgum is an important hardwood timber tree. Flowers emerge in the spring, and whilst they are fairly large, are hard to spot as they appear high up in the tree. Occasional low-hanging branches reveal clusters of flowers and emerging leaves. Sweetgums are monoecious, with different sexes being found in different flowers. Other Common Names: Sweet Gum Tree, Redgum, Red Sweet GumĪverage Size at Maturity: 50-70 ft tall and 10-20 ft wide Trees won’t flower until reaching maturity, at 20-30 years old. The Two-winged Silverbell is a small rounded tree or shrub that is usually multi-stemmed and low-branched. Leaves are alternate, 2-7” long and about half as wide.
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