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American Elm 6
Elms are loved for their graceful, stately shape, with branches like spreading fountains, and their green leaves that turn gold in fall.
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Common Bald Cypress 7
Unlike most cone-bearing trees, bald cypress loses its needles each winter and grows a new set in spring.
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Saucer Magnolia 8
The Saucer Magnolia tree has saucer-shaped white and pink blooms on bare branches in spring.
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Tulip Poplar 9
The Tulip Tree is one of the largest hardwood trees in North America.
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Kentucky Coffeetree 10
The Kentucky Coffeetree is a moderately fast-growing tree, reaching heights of 50 to 70 feet and flowers in June.
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Pecan 11
The Pecan is a large deciduous tree growing up to 131 feet with a typical spread of up to 75 feet.
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Purpleleaf Sand Cherry 12
The Purpleleaf Sand Cherry is most noted for its reddish-purple foliage that retains good color throughout the summer.
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Japanese Maple 14
The Japanese Maple is a deciduous shrub or small tree that can reach heights of up to 33 feet that often takes on a dome-like form when it matures in good conditions.
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Boxelder 16
The Boxelder is a species of maple native to North America.
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Eastern Red Cedar 22
The Eastern Redcedar is a dense slow-growing coniferous evergreen tree that can grow up to 66 feet tall.
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Chinese Elm 24
Commonly called Chinese Elm or Lacebark Elm is a medium-sized deciduous tree that typically grows up to 50 feet tall with a rounded crown and long pendulous branching.
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Burr Oak 26
The Burr Oak is a large, deciduous tree with a very wide, open crown.
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Sweetbay Magnolia 34
The sweetbay magnolia grows to a height of 20 feet and a spread of 10 to 20 feet at maturity.
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Rock Elm 42
Rock Elm trees are large deciduous tree that can grow up to heights of 100 feet and live 300 years.
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Paperbark Maple 43
The tree is a small, deciduous, oval to oval-rounded tree with slender upright branching.
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Cedar Elm 44
A Cedar Elm tree is a large, oval-rounded medium growing tree with heights of up to 70 feet high and 60 feet wide.
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Longleaf Pine 46
Longleaf pine is an evergreen conifer that got its common name for having the longest leaves of the eastern pine species.
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Formosan Sweetgum 49
The Formosan Sweetgum is a low-maintenance deciduous shade tree that is native to southern China and Taiwan.
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American Yellowwood 50
The American Yellowwood is a medium- to large-sized tree, 30 feet to 50 feet high, with smooth, beech-like gray to brown bark.
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Japanese Zelkova 51
The Japanese Zelkova is a good street and shade tree that has an appealing vase-shaped form with a rounded crown.
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Silver Maple 52
Silver maple is a tall, fast-growing, native tree of eastern North America with mature heights of over 70 feet and 50 feet wide.
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Northern Catalpa 53
Catalpa is a Midwest native tree grows 40 feet to 60 feet tall, with a narrow, open, irregularly rounded crown and spreading branches.
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Common Hackberry 54
The common hackberry is a medium-sized tree, 30 to 50 feet in height, with a slender trunk.
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Eastern Redbud 55
The Eastern Redbud is a small tree with a multiple trunk habit with heights of up to 30 feet tall, common in the understory and along roadsides.
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Chinese Fringe 56
Chinese Fringe is a beautiful multi-stemmed shrub to small tree, reaching heights of 25 feet, with exfoliating, gray-brown bark that comes off in strips.
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White Ash 57
The white ash is a handsome tree native to North America.
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Ginkgo 58
Ginkgo biloba is a deciduous slow growing conifer (a true gymnosperm) that matures to 100 feet tall.
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American Holly 59
The height of American holly or Christmas holly ranges from 25 feet to 60 feet in the warmer parts of its range.
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Sourwood 61
The Sourwood is one of the most beautiful natives and is ideal as a small specimen tree.
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Sycamore 62
An American sycamore tree can often be easily distinguished from other trees by its mottled bark which flakes off in great irregular masses, leaving the surface mottled, and greenish-white, gray and brown.