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Callicarpa americana

Callicarpa americana

Common Name: American Beautyberry
American Beautyberry has a loosely branched, open habit and clusters of tiny lilac spring flowers followed by bright fall fruits enjoyed by wildlife....

Callicarpa japonica

Callicarpa japonica

Common Name: Japanese Beautyberry
Japanese Beautyberry is similar to our native species, but has smaller leaves and berries, and the fruits tend to be paler in color as well. ...

Calycanthus floridus

Calycanthus floridus

Common Name: Sweet Shrub
Sweet Shrub or Carolina Allspice is a dense, rounded shrub. Excellent for naturalizing and erosion control. Rusty-red spring flowers followed by brown fruits....

Campsis radicans

Campsis radicans

Common Name: Trumpet Vine
Trumpet Vine is a large and vigorous woody vine noted for its showy, trumpet-shaped flowers. Native to woodlands of the southeastern United States, it is also a popular garden perennial across the country. Hummingbirds love the nectar....

Carex annectans

Carex annectans

Common Name: Yellow Fruited Sedge
Yellow Fruited Sedge is found in open, wet soil. The seed of Yellow-Fruited Sedge is important to waterfowl and songbirds. It provides food and nesting cover and for ducks; the grass tufts furnish cover to other small animals. ...

Carex crinita

Carex crinita

Common Name: Fringed Sedge
Fringed Sedge has clusters of dangling green flower heads from May to June. The flower heads persist as seed heads well into the summer. An attractive and eye catching clump-forming sedge for moist to wet soil, sun to partial shade....

Carex hirsutella

Carex hirsutella

Common Name: Fuzzy Wuzzy Sedge
Fuzzy Wuzzy Sedge has thin, long leaves. Leaves are hairy on both upper and lower surfaces, which gives the plant its common name. Fuzzy Wuzzy Sedge occurs in mesic to dry woods, savannas, upland prairies, disturbed sites, roadsides and railroads....

Carex hystericina

Carex hystericina

Common Name: Bottlebrush Sedge
Bottlebrush Sedge, or Porcupine Sedge, is native to much of North America including most of southern Canada and most of the United States. It grows in wetlands and on riverbanks. Produces dense or loose clumps of triangular stems from short rhizomes....

Carex muskingumensis

Carex muskingumensis

Common Name: Palm Sedge
Palm Sedge, or Muskingum Sedge, is a distinctive sedge with palm-shaped leaves and large slender flowering spikes. It is a good choice for ground cover in wet locations. Spreads by rhizomes along riverbanks, in floodplains and throug bottomland fores...

Carex praegracilis

Carex praegracilis

Common Name: Tollway Sedge
Tollway Sedge is a short, rich green sedge considered to be a possible alternative to turf grass. Tollway Sedge spreads by rhizomes to form a carpet that tolerates moderate foot traffic. ...

Carex shortiana

Carex shortiana

Common Name: Short's Sedge
Short's Sedge is a tufted perennial sedge.Its tall flowering stems are light green and smooth. The leaves grow from the base and alternately along the stems. The flowers are held in densely packed, cylindrical spikes that mature a dark brown. ...

Carex stricta

Carex stricta

Common Name: Tussock Sedge
Tussock Sedge is a handsome wetland native that forms dense, symmetrical tussocks of straw-colored leaves at its base with bright green new growth emerging from the top. Plants naturalize, spreading by rhizomes. Occurs in wet meadows and on pond edge...

Carex vulpinoidea

Carex vulpinoidea

Common Name: Fox Sedge
Fox Sedge grows on moist, open ground in swamps, wet prairies or near water. Fox Sedge is one of the most abundant sedges in the Midwest. Narrow grass-like leaf blades grow in round clumps. Seedheads spray out attractively from the center of the clu...

Carpinus caroliniana

Carpinus caroliniana

Common Name: American Hornbeam

American Hornbeam is a handsome small- to medium-sized tree with multiple stems that forms wide, horizontal canopy. Good fall color. Beautiful thin, blue-gray bark is ornamental.

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Carya  'Mixed'

Carya 'Mixed'

Common Name: Mixed Hickory

Hickory is a hardy, slow-growing native that does best on dry, upland sites. The leaves and fruits are an important food for many animals. The wood is used for fuel, and a variety of durable products.

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Carya aquatica

Carya aquatica

Common Name: Water Hickory
Water Hickory is found in wet, poorly-drained soils. Water Hickory withstands spring floods better than most trees because it breaks dormancy later....

Carya cordiformis

Carya cordiformis

Common Name: Bitternut Hickory

Bitternut Hickory provides wildlife food and cover. Great for wetlands and conservation projects.

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Carya glabra

Carya glabra

Common Name: Pignut Hickory
Pignut Hickory is a hardy, slow-growing native that does best on dry, upland sites. Pignut Hickory has similar bark to Shagbark Hickory on mature specimens....

Carya illinoinensis

Carya illinoinensis

Common Name: Pecan

The largest member of the hickory family is the Pecan. Prefers rich, moist soils. Tall straight trunk with symmetrical, broadly oval crown. The sweet edible nuts of Pecan are favored by wildlife and people.

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Carya illinoinensis 'Chetopa'

Carya illinoinensis 'Chetopa'

Common Name: Chetopa Pecan

'Chetopa' is a dependable and hardy selection that shows good resistance to scab. Tall straight trunk with symmetrical, broadly oval crown.

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Carya illinoinensis 'Colby'

Carya illinoinensis 'Colby'

Common Name: Colby Pecan
'Colby' is the best of Forrest Keeling's seed-grown, native cultivar pecans for understock, especially in northern climates. ...

Carya illinoinensis 'Colby Grafted'

Carya illinoinensis 'Colby Grafted'

Common Name: Grafted Colby Pecan

'Colby' is the best of Forrest Keeling's seed-grown, native cultivar pecans for understock, especially in northern climates. SOLD OUT NOW TAKING ORDERS FOR FALL 2011.

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Carya illinoinensis 'Kanza'

Carya illinoinensis 'Kanza'

Common Name: Kanza Pecan

Kanza is an early maturing native cultivar pecan with smaller pecans. Kanza was primarily released for the northern pecan belt because of its superior cold hardiness and early harvest date.

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Carya illinoinensis 'Kanza Grafted'

Carya illinoinensis 'Kanza Grafted'

Common Name: Grafted Kanza Pecan

Kanza is an early maturing native cultivar pecan with smaller pecans. Kanza was primarily released for the northern pecan belt because of it superior cold hardiness and early harvest date.  SOLD OUT NOW TAKING ORD...


Carya illinoinensis 'Lakota Grafted'

Carya illinoinensis 'Lakota Grafted'

Common Name: Lakota Pecan

'Lakota' cross-pollinates successfully with pecan cultivars, 'Pawnee', 'Osage', and 'Giles'. Time of nut maturity is early, similar to 'Giles', and about two weeks after 'Pawnee'. SOLD OUT NOW TAKING ORDERS FOR 2011.


Carya illinoinensis 'Major'

Carya illinoinensis 'Major'

Common Name: Major Pecan
There are many impressive features of the 'Major' pecan, particularly its heavy annual bearing characteristic. Flavorful nuts are medium-sized, thin shelled, easy to crack. ...

Carya illinoinensis 'Normal'

Carya illinoinensis 'Normal'

Common Name: Normal Pecan
'Normal' is a selection from Normal, Illinois. Tall straight trunk with symmetrical, broadly oval crown. ...

Carya illinoinensis 'Orchard Selections'

Carya illinoinensis 'Orchard Selections'

Common Name: Pecan

Improved seedling varieties such as Chetopa, Colby, Kanza, Major, Normal, Pawnee, Peruque, and Posey.  Named seedlings are grown from colected seed of clonal grafted varieties in isolated orchards  These half siblings are...


Carya illinoinensis 'Pawnee Grafted'

Carya illinoinensis 'Pawnee Grafted'

Common Name: Grafted Pawnee Pecan

The Pawnee variety of pecan has a smaller mature size than other cultivars. It is an excellent choice for people with limited space. Pawnee grows well from Georgia to Texas and is an exceptional pollinator. The nuts are large and s...


Carya illinoinensis 'Peruque'

Carya illinoinensis 'Peruque'

Common Name: Peruque Pecan
The 'Peruque' Pecan is an early-season producer derived from a selection of native seedlings near the Mississippi River. Average production is 81 nuts per pound, with 59% kernel. 'Peruque' kernels are golden, with tight dorsal grooves and a deep basa...

Carya illinoinensis 'Peruque Grafted'

Carya illinoinensis 'Peruque Grafted'

Common Name: Grafted Peruque Pecan

The Peruque Pecan is an early-season producer derived from a selection of native seedlings near the Mississippi River. 'Peruque' kernels are golden, with tight dorsal grooves and a deep basal cleft. SOLD OUT NOW TAKING ORDE...


Carya illinoinensis 'Posey'

Carya illinoinensis 'Posey'

Common Name: Posey Pecan
'Posey' is an excellent pecan cultivar. 'Posey' is resistant to scab and offers early nut maturation. Recommended (1990) for planting in Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee....

Carya illinoinensis X ovata 'Hican'

Carya illinoinensis X ovata 'Hican'

Common Name: Pecan

'Hican' is a natural hybrid of native Pecan and Shagbark Hickory overlap. Generally, the seedling trees are intermediate between these two species. Fast-growing with glossy, disease-resistant foliage. The nuts are like a r...


Carya laciniosa

Carya laciniosa

Common Name: Shellbark Hickory
Shellbark Hickory is the largest of the true hickories. The Shellbark Hickory's nut is also larger than others of the species. Bark is similar to Shagbark Hickory on mature specimens....

Carya ovata

Carya ovata

Common Name: Shagbark Hickory
Shagbark Hickory is a large tree of great character. Highly adaptable species for landscape use. The gray to brown bark peels off in thin sections. Shagbark Hickory's fall color is rich yellow and golden brown tones. Produces large, edible hickory nu...

Carya texana

Carya texana

Common Name: Black Hickory
Black Hickory is perhaps the smallest growing of all hickories. Black Hickory will grow on the poorest of sites and soils where few other trees will grow....

Carya tomentosa

Carya tomentosa

Common Name: Mockernut Hickory

The Mockernut Hickory is a medium to tall tree with rounded and open crown. Mockernut hickory grows in dry upland forests in Illinois, mostly in the southern two...


Castanea mollissima '*Amy'

Castanea mollissima '*Amy'

Common Name: Amy Bond Orchard Selection™
'Amy' Bond Orchard Chestnut offers excellent production and good-flavored nuts. Disease-resistant. Mother tree typically produces two nuts per bur....

Castanea mollissima '*Dunstan'

Castanea mollissima '*Dunstan'

Common Name: Dunstan Bond Orchard Selection™
'Dunstan' is a disease-resistant production selection with unusual vigor and uniformity. Superior nut production and above average nut size....

Castanea mollissima '*Eaton'

Castanea mollissima '*Eaton'

Common Name: Eaton Bond Orchard Selection™
Eaton Chestnut is a great production selection. Large, glossy, serrated foliage....

Castanea mollissima '*Homestead'

Castanea mollissima '*Homestead'

Common Name: Homestead Bond Orchard Selection™
Homestead Chestnut is a great production selection. Large, glossy, serrated foliage....

Castanea mollissima '*Peach'

Castanea mollissima '*Peach'

Common Name: Peach Bond Orchard Selection™
Peach Chestnut is a great production selection. Large, glossy, serrated foliage....

Castanea mollissima '*Qing'

Castanea mollissima '*Qing'

Common Name: Qing Bond Orchard Selection™
'Qing' Chestnut was developed by the Bond Chestnut Farm to produce prolific, quality nuts on disease-resistant trees....

Castanea mollissima '*Sleeping Giant'

Castanea mollissima '*Sleeping Giant'

Common Name: Sleeping Giant Bond Orchard Selection™
'Sleeping Giant' Chestnut is a great production selection. Large, glossy, serrated foliage....

Castanea mollissima 'Dunstan Grafted'

Castanea mollissima 'Dunstan Grafted'

Common Name: Dunstan Grafted Chestnut
The Dunstan Grafted Bond Orchard Chestnut is a great production selection. Displays unusual vigor, uniformity, and disease-resistance with superior nut production and above average nut size....

Castanea mollissima 'Eaton Grafted'

Castanea mollissima 'Eaton Grafted'

Common Name: Eaton Grafted Chestnut
Eaton Grafted Chestnut is a great production selection. Large, glossy, serrated foliage....

Castanea mollissima 'Gideon Grafted'

Castanea mollissima 'Gideon Grafted'

Common Name: Gideon Grafted Chinese Chestnut

'Gideon' is a disease- and cold-resistant hybrid Chinese Chestnut cultivar with excellent fruit production.

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Castanea mollissima 'Homestead Grafted'

Castanea mollissima 'Homestead Grafted'

Common Name: Homestead Grafted Chestnut
Homestead Grafted Chestnut is a great production selection. Large, glossy, serrated foliage....

Castanea mollissima 'Improved Chinese Chestnut'

Castanea mollissima 'Improved Chinese Chestnut'

Common Name: Improved Chinese Chestnut
Improved Chinese Chestnut is a production selection from a superior orchard strain. Unusual vigor, uniformity, and disease-resistance with superior nut production....

Castanea mollissima 'Peach Grafted'

Castanea mollissima 'Peach Grafted'

Common Name: Peach Grafted Chestnut
Peach Grafted Chestnut is a great production selection. Large, glossy, serrated foliage....

Castanea mollissima 'Qing Grafted'

Castanea mollissima 'Qing Grafted'

Common Name: Qing Grafted Chestnut
'Qing' Grafted Chestnut produces prolific, quality nuts on disease-resistant trees....

Castanea mollissima 'Sleeping Giant Grafted'

Castanea mollissima 'Sleeping Giant Grafted'

Common Name: Sleeping Giant Grafted Chestnut
'Sleeping Giant' Grafted Chestnut is a great production selection. Large, glossy, serrated foliage....

Castanea spp 'Colossal'

Castanea spp 'Colossal'

Common Name: Colossal Chestnut

This chestnut variety is a hybrid between the disease resistant Chinese Chestnut (Castanea mollissima) and the European Spanish Chestn...


Catalpa bignoniodes

Catalpa bignoniodes

Common Name: Southern Catalpa
Southern Catalpa is a medium to large tree that grows with an irregular oval crown. Southern Catalpa occurs along streams, bluff bases and in both low and upland woods. White, spring flower clusters can be a real showstopper. Flowers are followed by ...

Catalpa speciosa

Catalpa speciosa

Common Name: Northern Catalpa
Northern Catalpa is a medium- to large-sized tree with open-rounded to narrow-oval crown. Found along streams and in both low and upland woods.White, spring flower clusters can be a real showstopper. Flowers are followed by long, slender, green seedp...

Celastrus scandens

Celastrus scandens

Common Name: American Bittersweet
American Bittersweet is a native woody vine, often found growing over trees or fences. The characteristic fruit is a round, orange-yellow capsule which opens in autumn, disclosing the scarlet-colored seed pod. Seed provides food for wildlife in the w...

Celtis laevigata

Celtis laevigata

Common Name: Sugarberry

Sugarberry is a large overstory tree of bottomland forests. The small fruits are sweet, but barely edible. Fall color is a modest yellow.

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Celtis occidentalis

Celtis occidentalis

Common Name: Hackberry
Hackberry is a reliable, fast-growing, all-purpose shade tree. Hackberry's pyramidal shape when young then develops a broad crown with ascending branches. The leaves are medium green. Fall foliage is a soft yellow. Birds and wildlife relish the small...

Ceonanthus americanus

Ceonanthus americanus

Common Name: New Jersey Tea
New Jersey Tea is a compact native shrub with abundant, white spring flowers. Butterfly magnet!...

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Common Name: Buttonbush
Hundreds of ball-shaped, creamy white flowers dangle from Buttonbush in August. Butterflies and insects find the nectar of Buttonbush irresistable....

Cephalanthus occidentalis 'Sputnik'

Cephalanthus occidentalis 'Sputnik'

Common Name: Sputnik Buttonbush
Pale pink, late summer flower clusters explode from 'Sputnik' Buttonbush. Nectar of its "honeyball" flowers are a magnet for butterflies and other pollinators....

Cercidiphyllum japonicum

Cercidiphyllum japonicum

Common Name: Katsura Tree

Cercis canadensis

Cercis canadensis

Common Name: Redbud
Eastern Redbud is the native favorite and harbinger of spring that explodes with rosy pink flowers in April. Native Eastern Redbud does well in sun to dappled shade. Adapts to any average garden soil....

Cercis canadensis

Cercis canadensis

Common Name: Redbud, multi-stem

Eastern Redbud is the native favorite and harbinger of spring that explodes with rosy pink flowers in April. Our native Eastern Redbud does well in sun to dappled shade and will adapt to any average garden soil.

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Cercis canadensis 'Covey PP10328'

Cercis canadensis 'Covey PP10328'

Common Name: Lavender Twist Redbud

In spring, Lavender Twist Redbud offers clusters of magenta buds open to rosy-pink flowers born on branches that are both pendulous and weeping. Zigzaging branches form a cascading fall of rich green heart-shaped leaves. Fall folia...


Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy'

Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy'

Common Name: Forest Pansy Redbud

Forest Pansy Redbud has intensely colored reddish-purple heart-shaped leaves in the spring that become a deep reddish green in the summer. Spring flowers are a darker rose-purple color than the native species.

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Cercis canadensis 'Royal White'

Cercis canadensis 'Royal White'

Common Name: Royal White Redbud

Royal White, offers the best  of the redbud species with showy, large white flowers in early spring. More compact tree than Eastern Redbud, it is effective as a single specimen, in groupings, in a shrub border, or naturalized....


Cercis chinensis 'Avondale'

Cercis chinensis 'Avondale'

Common Name: Avondale Redbud

Avondale Redbud is a small show-stopper and considered the most showy of all the redbuds. Avondale Redbud has deep purple spring flowers along its branches and even on the main trunk. Grown as a single stem or multi-stemmed tree.


Chasmanthium latifolium

Chasmanthium latifolium

Common Name: Northern Sea Oats
Upright clumps of green leaves turn copper in fall and brown in winter. Attractive flat seed heads are good in fresh or dried arrangements. Prefers light shade and damp soil. Can self-sow prolifically. Good ground cover in moist areas....

Chelone obliqua

Chelone obliqua

Common Name: Rose Turtlehead
Dense spikes of rose-red flowers bloom in late summer and early fall. Butterflies are attracted to the nectar. The deep green, glossy foliage is handsome all season long. Rose Turtlehead grows best in full sun and moist soil....

Chionanthus virginicus

Chionanthus virginicus

Common Name: Fringetree
Shimmering, white fringed flowers cover Fringetree in May or June followed by small, round fall fruit on female trees. Fringetree leaves often turn bright yellow in fall. Grow in part sun to shade as a small tree or shrub. Beautiful as a single speci...

Chrysopsis camporum

Chrysopsis camporum

Common Name: Golden Aster
Golden Aster is a showy native wildflower with yellow flowers. It attracts butterflies. Golden Aster is drought tolerant and grows best in well drained average soil in full sun. Bright yellow flowers bloom late summer. Occurs in dry rocky prairies, ...

Cladrastis kentukea/lutea

Cladrastis kentukea/lutea

Common Name: Yellowwood
Yellowwood is an excellent, medium-sized specimen tree, with light green compound leaves turning gold in fall. Spectacular panicles of fragrant, creamy-white spring flowers. Yellowwood bark is very smooth and gray. This is an underused, beautiful na...

Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice'

Clethra alnifolia 'Ruby Spice'

Common Name: Ruby Spice Summersweet
'Ruby Spice' is noted for its fragrant rose-pink flowers that bloom in late summer. It is a densely-branched, rounded, suckering shrub. Flowers attract butterflies and bees....

Coreopsis lanceolata

Coreopsis lanceolata

Common Name: Lanceleaf Coreopsis
Lanceleaf Coreopsis is a native with showy, deep-yellow flowers on tough, drought-tolerant plants. Lanceleaf Coreopsis is great for naturalizing and establishes easily from seed....

Coreopsis palmata

Coreopsis palmata

Common Name: Prairie Coreopsis
Prairie Coreopsis has soft yellow, daisy-like flowers on stiff upright stems bloom from late spring to mid-summer. Prairie Coreopsis makes a good cut flower and seed source for birds. It spreads by rhizomes and self-seeding....

Coreopsis tinctoria

Coreopsis tinctoria

Common Name: Plains Coreopsis
Plains Coreopsis has lots of yellow flowers with red centers bloom from from June to September. Nicely textured leaves are deeply divided into narrow leaflets. This is a good cut flower and good seed source for birds....

Coreopsis tripteris

Coreopsis tripteris

Common Name: Stifftick Coreopsis
Stifftick Coreopsis is a tall, slender native wildflower found in prairies, dry open woods and along roadsides. Single, yellow, daisy-like flowers bloom atop slender, erect stems from mid to late summer into fall....

Cornus alba 'Argenteo Marginata'

Cornus alba 'Argenteo Marginata'

Common Name: Variegated Dogwood
Variegated Dogwood is a beautiful ornamental shrub with variegated cream and green foliage. Bright red branches add color to the winter scenery. A distinctive focal point in any setting....

Cornus alternifolia

Cornus alternifolia

Common Name: Pagoda Dogwood
Pagoda Dogwood has flat-topped clusters of fragrant, white spring flowers followed by blue-black berries on red stems. Spreading, low-branched tree with horizontal habit and burgundy fall foliage. Good alternative to cold-sensitive Flowering Dogwood...

Cornus amomum

Cornus amomum

Common Name: Silky Dogwood
Silky Dogwood is a hardy shrub or small tree that produces flat clusters of white spring flowers followed by blue berries, an important food source for birds and a number of mammals. Single trees will form thickets if the suckers are not pruned back....

Cornus drummondii

Cornus drummondii

Common Name: Roughleaf Dogwood
Roughleaf Dogwood is a hardy shrub or small tree. Flat clusters of tiny white spring flowers. White, summer fruit is important food source for wildlife. Leaves turn burgundy in early fall. ...

Cornus florida

Cornus florida

Common Name: Flowering Dogwood
Native Flowering Dogwood has distinctive white spring flowers on horizontal branches. Clusters of glossy red fruit in fall persist into winter and are relished by birds. Consistent deep red fall leaf color. Flowering Dogwood is best grown as an under...

Cornus florida 'Cherokee Princess'

Cornus florida 'Cherokee Princess'

Common Name: Cherokee Princess Flowering Dogwood
'Cherokee Princess' Flowering Dogwood has large white flowers in early spring. Bronze-green spring foliage turns dark green in summer and red in fall. Horizontal branching habit, usually with a flat topped crown, is often wider than high at maturity....

Cornus foemina (racemosa)

Cornus foemina (racemosa)

Common Name: Gray Dogwood

Stiff Dogwood is a shrub-form dogwood found on low, moist sites. Stiff, upright branches with ruddy stems and creamy white flowers. Blue drupe fruits mature in the fall.

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Cornus kousa var. chinensis

Cornus kousa var. chinensis

Common Name: Kousa Dogwood
Kousa, or Chinese, Dogwood is an attractive specimen tree with horizontal tiers of branches. Attractive spring flowers followed in fall by hanging red fruit and red foliage make this a desirable specimen tree. ...

Cornus kousa var. chinensis 'Milky Way'

Cornus kousa var. chinensis 'Milky Way'

Common Name: Milky Way Dogwood
Kousa, or Chinese, Dogwood is an attractive specimen tree with horizontal tiers of branches. The variety, 'Milky Way' is larger and has more prolific spring flowering than the native species. ...

Cornus mas 'Redstone'

Cornus mas 'Redstone'

Common Name: Redstone Cornelian Cherry
'Redstone' Cornelian Cherry is a low-branching shrub that is more erect in appearance and more vigorous than the species. Tiny, yellow flowers bloom in late winter to early spring before the foliage. Fall foliage is red. This cultivar of the native f...

Cornus obliqua

Cornus obliqua

Common Name: Swamp Dogwood
Swamp Dogwood is a hardy shrub or small tree that produces flat clusters of tiny white flowers in late spring. Its habit is similar to the two native species, Roughleaf and Gray Dogwood. The summer fruit is white and is an important food source for b...

Cornus officinalis

Cornus officinalis

Common Name: Japanese Cornelian Dogwood
Japanese Cornelian Dogwood is a low-branching shrub similar to Cornelian Cherry Dogwood, but with enhanced, exfoliating bark. Tiny, star-like, yellow flowers abundant late winter to early spring before foliage. Excellent deep red fall color....

Cornus stolonifera

Cornus stolonifera

Common Name: Redosier Dogwood
Redosier Dogwood is an open, spreading shrub with low, horizontal branches. Plants spread easily by stolons, or natural layering of lower stems. Dark, blood-red bark provides winter interest....

Cornus stolonifera (sericea) 'Flaviramea'

Cornus stolonifera (sericea) 'Flaviramea'

Common Name: Yellow Twig Dogwood

'Flaviramea' Yellow Twig Dogwood is a native selection. Young shoots are bright, yellow-green. Striking in winter where planted in groves or combined with Redosier Dogwood.

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Corylus americana

Corylus americana

Common Name: American Filbert
American Filbert is a shrub that forms rounded thickets. In spring, short, yellow-brown catkins bloom. Female flowers mature in summer into edible nuts that are eaten by wildlife. Fall color is beautiful and varied in color. ...

Corylus americana 'Sun Harvest'

Corylus americana 'Sun Harvest'

Common Name: Sun Harvest Filbert
'Sun Harvest' Filbert is an introduction of the USDA. ...

Corylus avellana

Corylus avellana

Common Name: European Filbert
European Filbert prefers a sunny, open location with any good soil. Will naturalize to form thickets with fibrous, suckering roots. Excellent for conservation plantings or to stabilize soil. ...

Corylus avellana 'Harry Lauder's Walkingstick'

Corylus avellana 'Harry Lauder's Walkingstick'

Common Name: Contorted Filbert
Contorted Filbert has contorted habit and leaves, golden catkins and gnarled branches. Eye-catching specimen plant!...

Cotinus coggygria

Cotinus coggygria

Common Name: Pink Smoketree
Pink Smoketree is a multi-stemmed small tree with open habit that turns a smoky pink color from June through August. Leaves, too, are showy, turning from medium blue-green to yellow-red-purple in the fall. Good choice for a shrub border or other grou...

Cotinus coggygria atropurpurea

Cotinus coggygria atropurpurea

Common Name: Purple Smoketree

Purple Smoketree offers stunning purple foliage that turns red in autumn. Dark green leaves turn a spectacular mix of yellow, orange, red and burgundy in fall. The "smoke" is not its flowers but the colorful stalks that remain afte...


Cotinus coggygria X obovatus 'Grace'

Cotinus coggygria X obovatus 'Grace'

Common Name: Grace Smoketree
'Grace' is an elegant hybrid of the European and North American Smoketree species. Great foliage color, brighter than species. Upright and spreading habit....

Cotinus obovatus

Cotinus obovatus

Common Name: American Smoke Tree

Very striking color in the fall that lasts three to four weeks.  Smoketree is best used in a shrub border or trained as a multiple trunked patio or accent tree.  A North American native, American Smoketree is tolerant of ...


Cotoneaster apiculatus

Cotoneaster apiculatus

Common Name: Cranberry Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster is a low, wide spreading shrub with stiff branching patterns.  Dark glossy green leaves changing to bronzy red or purplish tones in the fall.  Effective as a bank cover, foundation plant, shrub border, or as a...


Crataegus crusgalli

Crataegus crusgalli

Common Name: Cockspur Hawthorn
Cockspur Hawthorn is a small tree developing a flattened crown with long horizontal branches. Clusters of white flowers bloom followed by deep red berries that persist into late fall or winter. The fruit is great for wildlife; thorns provide great p...

Crataegus phaenopyrum

Crataegus phaenopyrum

Common Name: Washington Hawthorn
Washington Hawthorn is a broadly oval tree with lustrous dark green leaves. The young foliage is purple and fall color is orange, red or purple. This is the last hawthorn to flower with white flowers in early June. The glossy red fruit persists unti...

Crataegus viridis

Crataegus viridis

Common Name: Green Hawthorn
Green Hawthorn has clusters of white flowers followed by bright red fall berries. Green Hawthorn is a thornless hawthorn variety, and a true landscape beauty. Scarlet fall foliage. Fruit lasts almost all winter. On older trunks, the bark exfoliates...