LATIN NAME
COMMON NAME

ACER
maple
Acer buergeranum
trident maple
Zone: 6
Height: 20'
Spread: 20'
Shape: Round
Foliage: Glossy green
Fall Color: Red-orange
Back to List This small adaptive tree is an excellent choice for confined spaces such as patios and urban sites.
Acer campestre
hedge maple
Zone: 5
Height: 25-30'
Spread: 25'
Shape: Dense, rounded
Foliage: Dark green
Fall Color: Yellow
Back to List A good small maple that performs well in dry, alkaline soil. Its low height and slow growth make it an excellent residential or street tree. Attractive corky bark in the winter.
Acer campestre 'Queen Elizabeth'
hedge maple
Zone: 6
Height: 35'
Spread: 30'
Shape: Upright branching, oval
Foliage: Dark green
Fall Color: Yellow
Back to List A medium sized tree that is more vigorous than the species. Known for its more upright growth habit and ability to tolerate dry alkaline soils.
Acer circinatum
vine maple
Zone: 6
Height: 15'
Spread: 10'
multi-stem Shape: Multi-stemmed, upright, spreading
Foliage: Medium to dark green
Fall Color: Early orange, scarlet and yellow
Back to List A multi-stemmed, open tree or shrub. The new growth is tinged red, turning green. Fall color can be spectacular. Oregon native.
Acer x freemanii 'Armstrong'
freeman maple
Zone: 3
Height: 45'
Spread: 20'
Shape: Fastigiate, upright
Foliage: Light green
Fall Color: Orange-yellow to red
Back to List 'Armstrong' has a full, dense canopy. It becomes a very tall, fastigiate tree with ascending branches. Excellent street tree or building accent.
Acer x freemanii 'Jeffersred'
Autumn Blaze
Zone: 3
Height: 50'
Spread: 40'
Shape: Upright branching, broadly oval
Foliage: Medium green
Fall Color: Brilliant orange-red
Back to List A red and silver maple cross known for its drought tolerance and brilliant, long lasting fall color. It is an upright, oval form with strong, ascending branching. Fast growing.
Acer ginnala 'Flame'
amur maple
Zone: 2
Height: 20'
Spread: 20'
Shape: Small, rounded with spreading branches
Foliage: Medium green, fine textured
Fall Color: Orange-red to fiery red
Back to List One of the hardiest trees availiable. An improved seed selection of the species. Specimens are especially interesting in form because of their spreading branch pattern.
Acer griseum
paperbark maple
Zone: 5
Height: 25'
Spread: 20'
Shape: Upright, spreading, rounded crown
Foliage: Trifoliate leaves, dark green
Fall Color: Red
Back to List An excellent specimen type tree with paper thin sheets of cinnamon colored, exfoliating bark. Leaflets are silvery underneath. Brilliant fall color.
Acer macrophyllum
bigleaf maple
Zone: 6
Height: 80'
Spread: 50'
Shape: Broadly oval to rounded
Foliage: Dark green
Fall Color: Yellow
Back to List A vigorous native of the west coast especially valuable in large spaces and natural settings. It establishes its canopy quickly and has leaves that can measure up to a foot across.
Acer palmatum 'Bloodgood'
Japanese maple
Zone: 5
Height: 20'
Spread: 15'
Shape: Upright, with a graceful spread
Foliage: Purple-red
Fall Color: Scarlet
Back to List 'Bloodgood' is a well known and reliable Japanese maple. It retains excellent purple-red color spring and summer. Valuable as a specimen or in mass.
Acer platanoides 'Columnare'
Norway maple
Zone: 3
Height: 40'
Spread: 15'
Shape: Narrow, upright
Foliage: Dark green
Fall Color: Yellow
Back to List Ideal in areas where sidewalks, roads, and buildings demand a narrow tree. Also useful as a screen. This tree develops stout, sharply ascending branches and has a bold winter appearance.
Acer platanoides 'Crimson King'
Norway maple
Zone: 4
Height: 40'
Spread: 35'
Shape: Oval, becoming rounded
Foliage: Deep purple
Fall Color: Maroon to reddish-bronze
Back to List A dense, rounded form with deep purple foliage all summer. Although it is the most commonly used of the purple-leaved Norways, it is effective when placed properly. It has small yellow flowers in spring.
Acer platanoides 'Crimson Sentry'
Norway maple
Zone: 4
Height: 20-25'
Spread: 15'
Shape: Compact, narrow, upright
Foliage: Deep purple
Fall Color: Maroon to reddish-bronze
Back to List This tree is a bud sport of 'Crimson King' and becomes a very compact, heavily branched, upright tree. Its deep purple foliage contrasts with other plants nicely.
Acer platanoides 'Emerald Queen'
Norway maple
Zone: 4
Height: 65'
Spread: 45'
Shape: Dense, oval
Foliage: Deep green
Fall Color: Bright yellow
Back to List A fast growing tree with consistent, glossy, dark green foliage. One of the finest Norway cultivars for urban landscape conditions. Young spring leaves have a red tint.
Acer rubrum 'Bowhall'
red maple
Zone: 4
Height: 40'
Spread: 15'
Shape: Narrow, upright
Foliage: Green
Fall Color: Scarlet-red to orange-yellow
Back to List An excellent tree for street plantings. 'Bowhall' is an upright, pyramidal form with reliable fall color.
Acer rubrum 'Karpick'
red maple
Zone: 3
Height: 40'
Spread: 20'
Shape: Narrow, upright oval
Foliage: Green
Fall Color: Yellow to orange
Back to List A rapid growing selection, excellent for street tree plantings. It is and upright, narrow form with distinct red twigs and green foliage.
Acer rubrum 'October Glory'
red maple
Zone: 4
Height: 45'
Spread: 35'
Shape: Broadly oval to round
Foliage: Medium green, glossy
Fall Color: Brilliant orange to deep red
Back to List An attractive red maple cultivar that forms a rounded head. It holds its' leaves late, giving a brilliant fall color display.
Acer rubrum 'Franksred'
Red Sunset maple
Zone: 4
Height: 45'
Spread: 35'
Shape: Upright branching, oval
Foliage: Dark green
Fall Color: Red to orange-red
Back to List The dense canopy and perfect branch structure make this an ideal industry selection. Its fall colors precede October Glory in the fall.
Acer tataricum
tartarian maple
Zone: 3
Height: 25'
Spread: 20'
Shape: Oval, upright
Foliage: Medium to dark green
Fall Color: Yellow to red
Back to List Beautiful red samaras against dark green foliage give this tree a distinctive summer characteristic. It tolerates cold, dry climates and alkaline soil conditions.
Acer tataricum 'Pattern Perfect'
tartarian maple
Zone: 3
Height: 20'
Spread: 15'
Shape: Oval to rounded
Foliage: Thick, green
Fall Color: Red-orange
Back to List A wonderfully small tree ideal for residential sites. This tree proves to be adaptable to cold winters and dry soils.
Acer truncatum x platanoides 'Keithsform'
Norwegian Sunset maple
Zone: 4
Height: 35'
Spread: 25'
Shape: Oval, somewhat upright
Foliage: Dark green, glossy
Fall Color: Orange-red
Back to List This is an upright, oval tree with a uniform canopy. Growth habit is similar to the Norway maple. It is a fast growing, small maple with excellent fall color.
Acer truncatum x platanoides 'Warrenred'
Pacific Sunset maple
Zone: 4
Height: 30'
Spread: 25'
Shape: Upright, spreading, rounded
Foliage: Dark green, very glossy
Fall Color: Yellow-orange to bright red
Back to List 'Pacific Sunset' has very glossy, dark green summer foliage that becomes brilliant in the fall. It has a finer textured branching structure and colors earlier than the 'Norwegian Sunset'.

AESCULUS
horsechestnut
Aesculus x carnea 'Briotii'
red horsechestnut
Zone: 5
Height: 35-40'
Spread: 30'
Shape: Round to broad oval
Foliage: Lustrous, dark green
Fall Color: Yellow
Back to List A smaller tree than some of the other horsechestnuts, 'Briotii' flowers in the late spring with dark, rose-red, 10" panicles. It originated in 1858 from seed grown at the Trianon in France.

ALNUS
alder
Alnus rubra (oregona)
red alder
Zone: 5
Height: 40'
Spread: 25'
Shape: Upright to pyramidal
Foliage: Dark green
Fall Color: Yellow
Back to List A native to stream banks and marshy areas, this tree is hardy and adaptable in the western states. It has beautiful, light gray bark.
Alnus rhomabifolia
white alder
Zone: 4
Height: 75'
Spread: 20'
Shape: Upright
Foliage: Dark green
Fall Color: Yellow
Back to List This tree is an excellent choice for landscape in moist soils. The roots of this tree will compact and help keep stream beds intact. A great tree to withstand drought conditions.

AMELANCIER
serviceberry
Amelanchier x grandiflora 'Autumn Brilliance'
serviceberry
Zone: 4
Height: 20'
Spread: 15'
Shape: Upright, with some spreading
Foliage: Green
Fall Color: Bright red
Back to List A good tree for smaller places, this serviceberry has a multitude of white blossoms in the spring. Its strong branching resists storm damage and carries edible dark blue fruits in late spring.