Large Trees

One of Indiana’s few evergreens, and a favorite food of cedar waxwings! Young trees are bush like and pyramidal, while adult trees are branching an...

One of Indiana’s few native pines! White pines are evergreen with long needles and a naturally full form in full sun. Best grown in soil that lacks...

A good sized tree with fairly fast growth and excellent wildlife support. Hosts the hackberry emperor, tawny emperor, mourning cloak, and question ...

This is the wild type of the oft cultivated honey locust, meaning it will have a thorny trunk! An attractive large tree with small leaves that cast...

An easily grown tree with unique, showy seeds! Does best in full or part sun/shade and loamy soil, but young trees tolerate bright shade. Bark is f...

An evergreen tree with an open, pyramidal form and lighter build than its better known cousin, the eastern white pine. Trees begin producing cones ...

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...

Shagbark hickory’s slightly smaller sibling! These trees may reach 100’ in ideal conditions, but 50’-80’ is more common. Like other hickories, it h...

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 ...