American Beautyberry
Zones 3-8 or 6-11
With light lavender-pink flowers and violet to magenta fruit, this shrub is a favorite. Shrub 8' tall.
White American Beautyberry
This Beautyberry produces white berries along with its attractive foliage.
Sweetshrub
Zones 4-9
Rounded shrub with dark green foliage in the summer that turns yellowish in the fall. Perfect, dark reddish brown, maroon to almost red flowers bloom in May with a very fruity fragrance. Stems are also very aromatic when crushed. Shrub 8' tall and wide.
Yellow flowered cultivar of this native sweetshrub. This plant features dark green foliage and fragrant banana-yellow flowers.
Zones 4-9
The habit is dense, compact and rounded in outline. The reddish brown flowers are absolutely fruity with fragrance, the elliptical-ovate leaves are lustrous dark green, beautiful yellow to golden yellow fall color. Draws rave reviews in the Dirr Garden.
An Oak Grove Nursery selection for its dense, compact form. It sports beautiful, fragrant maroon flowers mid-May with stunning yellow-orange fall foliage.
Zone 5
An exciting new sweetshrub with large magnolia-like flowers in early summer and a powerful fragrance of strawberries, melons, and spices.
American Hornbeam
Zones 3-9
This native's fall color is an appealing mix of soft red, yellow, and orange. Its leaning or somewhat twisted main stem produces a natural clump to 30' tall. It is pest free and easily adapted to many conditions.
Shagbark Hickory
Zones 4-8
The bark is gray to brown and breaks up in thin plates which are free at the ends and attached in the middle; the overall effect is a "Shaggy" character. Is a large tree reaching 60-80' in height. The foliage is a deep yellow-green in summer and changes to a rich yellow and golden brown tones in fall.
Northern Catalpa
Zone 4
This medium sized deciduous tree or large shrub can reach 40-60' tall. Its summer foliage is heart shaped to arrowhead-like form. Kelly green color turns yellow-green in fall. Flowers are perfect, white, bell shaped and bloom in June. Its grayish-brown bark is ridged and furrowed.
New Jersery Tea
Zones 3-9
Loved by 13 species of butterflies, this compact and dense (2-3') shrub flowers with neat rounded white flower clusters.
Common Hackberry
Zones 3-9
This fast growing tree in youth is weakly pyramidal; in old age the crown is a broad top of ascending arching branches, often with drooping branchlets. The bark is grayish with characteristic corky warts or ridges, later somewhat scaly. Tree (50+ feet)
Buttonbush
Zone 5
Mid-summer this shrub provides us with attractive light pinkish-white spherical flower heads. It has a nice form and glossy foliage. Shrub (9' tall and wide)
Redbud
Zones 4-9
Known for its heart shaped leaves and its reddish purple buds which open to a rosy pink, this small tree is referred to by Dirr as "A native tree with a touch of class." Tree - single or multi-stemmed (25' tall)
Fringetree
Zones 4-9
Multi-stemmed large shrub reaching 25' tall and wide or small tree. Leaves turn a bright golden yellow in fall. Fleecy clusters of flowers appear in June. Fruit is dark blue and egg shaped.
American Yellowwood
Zones 4-8
This native low branching large flowering tree's most outstanding feature is its fragrant, creamy flowers that form in May-June. Its wood is indeed bright yellow. 50'
Cinnamon Clethra
Zones 5-8
Its distinct bark is beautiful, exfoliating cinnamon brown with a polished appearance below. Fall color is yellow and the flowers are white, fragrant, and five-petaled. Excellent to attract butterflies. Shrub or small tree.
Summersweet Clethra
Zone 4
Dense and compact, this popular, pest free, plant is great for shady, wet areas and its salt tolerant on the seashore. The white flowers are beautiful and fragrant July-August.
Pink Summersweet Clethra
Rich aromatic and abundant describes the pink flower spikes of this compact plant. Shiny foliage gives the appearance of evergreen before turning yellow in the fall.
Low-mounding dwarf selection of Clethra that boasts heavy blooms and heavy perfume from late July through August. Glossy foliage remains attractive throughout the growing season.
Deep reddish-pink flowers that do not fade to white. Fragrance and yellow fall color add to its beauty.
Zones 4-9
Compared to species this shrub is more dense and shorter. Its white flowers are very fragrant and has yellow-orange fall color.
Pagoda Dogwood
Zones 3-7
Excellent textural effects because of the strong horizontal branches which are almost parallel with the ground. Young stem color is often lustrous brown to purple turning gray. Fall color is reddish purple and flowers are yellowish white in the spring. Much cold hardier than the flowering dogwood and is resistant to anthracnose.
Silky Dogwood
Zones 4-8
An excellent shrub that turns shades of purple and red in autumn has white flowers in June and porcelain-blue fruit. Shrub (10' tall and wide)
Gray Dogwood
Zones 3-8
This dogwood shrub turns shades of purple and red in autumn, has small, white flower clusters, and round fruit borne on bright red stalks. Shrub (10' tall and wide)
Variegated Gold Stem Dogwood
Zone 3
Brightly variegated green foliage with creamy white/yellow irregular margins. Small white flowers. Bright gold winter stems. Upright and rounded.
Zone 3
Superior stem color - changing from coral in fall to deep cherry red in winter. Fairly disease resistant. Shrub (6-10' tall and equal or greater spread)
Smoketree
Zones 4-8
Fall colors of orange, yellow, red, and purple. Bark becomes scaly and dark. 25'
A hybrid with C. obovatus, this cultivar has purple leaves that mature to blue-green and very large, 12-14" panicles of pink blooms. The fall color is also excellent.