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Revised June 2008

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Contents

• How to choose trees
• American sycamore or plane tree (Platanus occidentalis)
• Amur maple (Acer ginnala)
• Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum)
• Black gum (Nyssa sylvatica)
• Bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa)
• English oak (Quercus robur)
• Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)
• Golden-rain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata)
• Green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
• Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis)
• Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
• Japanese pagoda tree (Sophora japonica)
• Linden (Tilia spp.)
• Norway maple (Acer platanoides)
• Pin oak (Quercus palustris)
• Red maple (Acer rubrum)
• Red oak (Quercus borealis)
• Scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea)
• River birch (Betula nigra)
• Siberian elm (Ulmus pumila)
• Silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
• Sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
• Swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor)
• Sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua)
• Trident maple (Acer buergeranum)
• Tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera)
• White ash (Fraxinus americana)
• White oak (Quercus alba)
• Yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea)

Related publications

• G6805, Selecting Landscape Plants: Flowering Trees
• G6810, Selecting Landscape Plants: Uncommon Trees for Specimen Plantings
• G6815, Selecting Landscape Plants: Needled Evergreens
• G6820, Selecting Landscape Plants: Broad-leaved Evergreens
• G6830, Selecting Landscape Plants: Deciduous Shrubs
• G6840, Selecting Landscape Plants: Ornamental Vines
• G6900, Tree Placement on Home Grounds
• G6955, Improving Lawn and Landscape Soils

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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees

Yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea)

Medium-sized trees

• Maximum height
  40 feet
• Relative growth rate
  Poor
• Freedom from insect pests
  Excellent
• Freedom from disease problems
  Excellent
• Resistance to storm damage
  Good
• Will grow on poorly drained soil
  Poor
• Will grow in hot, dry areas
  Good
• Easy to transplant
  Poor
• Withstands city conditions
  Good

The most distinctive feature of the yellowwood is its pendulous clusters of white, fragrant, wisteria-like flowers. The tree may not bloom every year, but the clean foliage and rounded form of this tree would make it worthwhile to plant if it never bloomed. The yellowwood has no serious disease or insect problems.

G6800, revised June 2008

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