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Chalk maple (Acer leucoderme)

  • SCIENTIFIC NAME: Acer leucoderme
  • PLANT TYPE: Tree
  • SCIENTIFIC NAME PRONUNCIATION: (AY-ser loo-koh-DER-mee)
  • TAGS: Plant Tags: good fall color and specimen tree. Plant Types: Tree.

Sun to shade; moist to moderately dry well-drained soil; shallowly rooted; acid to slightly alkaline soil. Easy to recognize in winter because many leaves remain on the tree. Other Common Names: Whitebark maple Other Scientific Names: Acer saccharum, Saccharodendron leucoderme
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Downy serviceberry (Amelanchier arborea)

  • SCIENTIFIC NAME: Amelanchier arborea
  • PLANT TYPE: Tree
  • SCIENTIFIC NAME PRONUNCIATION: (am-uh-LAN-kee-er ar-BOR-ee-uh)
  • TAGS: Plant Tags: birds and edible. Plant Types: Tree.

Sun to shade; moist to dry well-drained soil; acid soil. The more sun the better the flowering and fruit potential.   Other Common Names: Common serviceberry, Juneberry, Junebush, shadbush, shadblow, sarvisberry.
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Pawpaw (Asimina triloba)

  • SCIENTIFIC NAME: Asimina triloba
  • PLANT TYPE: Tree
  • SCIENTIFIC NAME PRONUNCIATION: (a-SEE-mee-nuh try-LO-buh)
  • TAGS: Plant Tags: edible and host plant. Plant Types: Tree.

Easily grown in average, medium-wet to wet, well-drained soil; full sun to part shade, although if grown in full shade it will become leggy; in its natural habitat it often spreads by root suckers to form thickets; found throughout most of the eastern half of United States including parts of Texas but not in the upper New England states; should be planted in zones...
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Red buckeye (Aesculus pavia)

  • SCIENTIFIC NAME: Aesculus pavia
  • PLANT TYPE: Tree
  • SCIENTIFIC NAME PRONUNCIATION: (ES-kew-lus PAY-vee-uh)
  • TAGS: Plant Tags: Hummingbirds and pollinators. Plant Types: Tree.

Large showy flowers; makes an excellent naturalizing plant; nectar source for hummingbirds.  Grows best in rich, moist, but well-drained soil; if the usually red flowers are pale it might have hybridized with painted buckeye (Aesculus sylvatica).
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