Large Trees

A healthy tree that is fairly fast growing when young! Female produce large, moderately showy seedpods, and mature trees provide bright shade that ...

A lovely, unique tree with showy fragrant white flowers! Blooms heavily only one or two times in a decade, but has consistent fall color and young ...

A.k.a. shellbark hickory. One of the largest hickories with the largest hickory nut, kingnut hickories earn their name! Prefers rich bottomland soi...

The northernmost species in a largely tropical family, catalpa shows it with it’s large, orchid-like fragrant flowers, broad leaves, and conspicuou...

With commercial pecan agriculture based in the southern states, its easy to forget their range extends as far north as Chicago! But not all Carya i...

A.k.a. American arborvitae. A dense growing evergreen often planted in place of arborvitae! Can be easily trimmed/shaped in the same manner as arbo...

A handsome medium to large tree with obvious spring flower spikes and showy leaves. Produces the glossy and iconic buckeye nut in the fall. Dense f...

This midsized white oak is at home in bottomlands and floodplains! Easily identified by their acorns, which are more than half covered by the acorn...

A fast growing willow with a distinctive smooth (peach leaf-like) leaf. Can grow with a single trunk or multiple trunks. As one of the taller nativ...

This sturdy hickory is adaptable and drought hardy once established! Large, thin-hulled were once valued as livestock feed, hence the common name, ...

Fast growing for an oak, pin oaks also have small acorns and so are a good choice for an oak with a minimal ‘mess’. Young trees tolerate part shade...

An adaptable oak with widely variable rounded leaves. Like all oaks, it is an ecosystem cornerstone and an excellent choice for adding wildlife val...

Named for the way their leaves wave in even light breezes, quaking aspen can be planted ornamentally for its pale bark and bright yellow fall color...

Named for its generally bright red fall foliage, the red maple is a hardy and adaptable shade tree! Young plants tolerate bright shade, male plants...

A long lived, dry soil oak lovely in both form and fall color. Also provides fairly dense shade, and so is often planted decoratively. Pollination:...

A.k.a. paperbark birch. One of the most adaptable and southerly of the birches, it hosts the mourning cloak butterfly and two spectacular moths: th...

A tree with endearing rounded, sometimes lobed "mitten" leaves that turn bright yellow, orange, and red in the fall. Hosts a number of charismatic ...

A dry soil oak best known for its red fall foliage. Growth is reasonably fast for an oak, and drought tolerance is good. Prefers well drained soils...

A standout among hickories! As a host for a wide array of insects and with large, sweet nuts, shagbark is a cornerstone of healthy forests. Trees t...

An adaptable, easily identified oak- shingle oak leaves have smooth or shallowly lobed edges. A good, drought tolerant, hardy oak to add diversity ...

This adaptable, comparatively fast growing oak is valued for its large acorns and bright red fall color. Young trees are pyrimidal and become sprea...

A fast growing maple that is easily grown in essentially any average to wet soil and excellent for quick wildlife support! A staple as a fast growi...

 A well known species for good reason, sugar maples are a staple and climax species of the eastern woodlands! Best grown in moist soil containing s...

A.k.a. cow oak. A white oak whose large acorns are particularly appealing to wildlife! Their nuts lack most of the tannins that make most acorns bi...