Tall Shrubs/Small Trees

A.k.a. shadbush and Juneberry. A small, silver barked tree/bush that tolerates shade. White spring flowers make it a native alternative for the inv...

An unusual small understory tree with distinctive drooping white flowers and rattle-like seed pods! Does not tolerate full sun and prefers moist, r...

A.k.a. ironwood, musclewood, and blue beech. A small tree notable for its sinuous silver bark and shade tolerance, it can be trained into a large m...

A small tree with white spring flowers and edible fruit, American plum is a good replacement for the wildly invasive callery pear.  Plums vary in s...

A.k.a. southern arrowwood. A viburnum with distinct, prominently veined and coarsely toothed leaves. Fairly adaptable and tolerant, it provides lat...

A hardy, adaptable viburnum perfect for woodland edges, visual screens, and thicket plantings. White spring flowers attract a variety of small inse...

Excellent for shady borders and layering, bottlebrush buckeye had conspicuous blooms and retains its fall leaves longer than other buckeyes. Genera...

Wildlife value packed into a compact plant! With showy flowers, berries, and host insects paired with adaptability make chokeberry an easy way to a...

A.k.a. Canadian juniper. This highly variable evergreen is one of the world’s widest ranging conifers. Commonly grow as large shrubs (dimensions pr...

A delicate tree that grows slowly. It has a shelving habit in the shade but develops faster and fuller in sun. Produces large, sweet fleshed fruit ...

A.k.a. winterbloom. As the name implies, this small tree blooms from fall to early winter with distinctive, spidery yellow blooms. Generally adapta...

An adaptable flowering tree excellent for wildlife support! Has an aesthetically pleasing natural form, but is susceptible to leaf blights that mak...

A manageably sized oak tree that produces nuts at 3-5 years! A barrens species, they have a broad regional range that in Indiana is restricted to t...

 A native relative of the infamous, wildly invasive ‘burning bush’ (Euonymus alatus), eastern wahoo boasts similar fall color and showier flowers a...

A.k.a. winged sumac, dwarf sumac, and shining sumac. A generally smaller sumac that may runner less prolifically than other species and reliably tu...

The wild type of the common cultivar- boasts the same showy spring flowers and bright red fruits while supporting wildlife and blending in with nat...

A.k.a. snow flower tree and flowering ash. A fairly adaptable small tree or large shrub with unique and conspicuous late spring blooms! Late summer...

A small, hardy dogwood perfect for landscaping- it maxes out at 15’ but generally stays between 4’-8’ and can be trained as a bush! Suckering habit...

A.k.a. wafer ash. There are not very many plants that could be described as ‘bulletproof’, but this one is a contender. A pretty, small tree best k...

A large, hardy, multi-stemmed shrub that can be trained into a tree with a single trunk. Prefers part shade and moist soil but is generally adaptab...

A dogwood often planted as an ornamental- even young plants bloom well, and mature plants bloom densely and have a natural “shelving” form. Valuabl...

A.k.a. Iowa crabapple and western crabapple. This is another species of high value to wildlife that is on the decline due to development. The late ...

A fast growing, smaller willow that bears its famous fuzzy catkins in the spring! Can be trained as an erect shrub or a small tree. Perfect to plan...

Perhaps the showiest of native tree flowers, the fast growing venerable redbud adds more than a splash of pink to spring, and shade in the summer! ...