(Crapemyrtle, Osage Crapemyrtle)

The colorful crapemyrtle 'Osage' is a heat-loving small tree with a slightly weeping crown. This popular hybrid has glossy green leaves that are bronze-hued when they emerge and turn shades of red in the fall. In summer it bears large, clusters of crinkled pink flowers at its branch tips. Mature plants have a vase-shaped habit and attractive exfoliating bark that reveals smooth inner bark in many colors.

Crapemyrtle is tolerant of a wide range of well-drained soils and grows best in hot sunny...

(Dwarf Crapemyrtle, Pecos Crapemyrtle)

This crapemyrtle cultivar is a tall, mildew- resistant, deciduous shrub that blooms with eye-catching clusters of fuchsia-pink flowers in summertime. Its lovely, multi-colored bark is smooth and mingles cinnamon brown, gray and tan colors. More color arrives in autumn, when the leaves of 'Pecos' turn maroon. If lower branches are removed, this cultivar forms a handsome small tree appropriate for small gardens or in a foundation planting.

Like most crapemyrtles, ‘Pecos’ should be planted in...

(Dwarf Crapemyrtle, Pokomoke Crapemyrtle)

Like many stellar crapemyrtle cultivars, ‘Pocomoke’ is a United States National Arboretum introduction. This hybrid cross between Lagerstroemia fauriei and L. indica was first selected in 1990 and introduced in 1998. It was chosen for its neat, dwarf habit, showy pink flowers and fine foliage.

The flowers of ‘Pocomoke’ appear from midsummer to frost and are borne in flattened clusters. Flower buds are tan and open to a pretty rose-pink. The neat, compact plants have spectacular...

(Hybrid Crapemyrtle, Sarah's Favorite Crapemyrtle)

This crapemyrtle (also marketed as 'Hybrid White' or 'Dodd's White') is a fast-growing, heat-loving, upright, deciduous, flowering tree. A hybrid from a cross like the one that yielded the similar and well-known cultivar 'Natchez,'it shows the same superb ornamental bark of pale gray, exfoliating to reveal an under layer of sienna and cinnamon tones. It has glossy, dark-green leaves that turn shades of orange-red in the fall. In summer ‘Sarah’s Favorite’ bears large, loose clusters of crinkly white...

(Hybrid Crapemyrtle, Sioux Crapemyrtle)

The pretty crapemyrtle 'Sioux' is a heat-loving small tree to with attractive arching branches and a vase-shaped habit. This hybrid has glossy dark green leaves that are bronze-hued when they first emerge and turn shades of red in the fall. In summer it bears large, clusters of crinkled pale pink flowers at its branch tips. Mature plants have attractive exfoliating bark of gray and tan.

Crapemyrtle is tolerant of a wide range of well drained soils and grows best in hot sunny locations. Foliar...

(Dwarf Crapemyrtle, Tonto Crapemyrtle)

The Tonto crapemyrtle is a mildew resistant hybrid shrub with bright magenta red flowers and dull red fall foliage. It is an upright shrub that can be used as an accent plant or as an informal hedge or screen. Its bark is beige and spring's emerging leaves are bronze. By trimming away the lower branches, 'Tonto' can be made into a very small, petite vase-shaped tree.

Tonto is a hybrid of Japanese crapemyrtle with the common crapemyrtle that was made at the United States National Arboretum.

Crapemyrtles...

(Hybrid Crapemyrtle)

The hybrid Tuscarora crapemyrtle is a fast-growing, mildew-resistant selection with a pleasant rounded canopy. In the heat of summer, the branch tips are filled with flower clusters of a magenta-kissed coral-pink. The bark of this tree is smooth and mottled, with blotches of cream, tan and olive green.

Crapemyrtle should be planted in a well-drained soil with a pH range of 5.5 to 7.5. Full sun is mandatory for best flowering and overall plant fullness and form. Like most crapemyrtles, 'Tuscarora'...

(Hybrid Crapemyrtle, Tuskegee Crapemyrtle)

A small, deciduous flowering tree, ‘Tuskegee’ blooms heavily with clusters of deep powdery-pink flowers in mid and late summer and adds more color in fall with orange-red leaves. It is most often multi-trunked and when in flower the branches arch downward under the weight of the large panicles, or flower clusters.

As for most crapemyrtles, plant ‘Tuskegee’ in well-drained average soil. Full sun is mandatory for best flowering and overall plant fullness and form. Once established, ‘Tuskegee’...

(Hybrid Crapemyrtle, Yuma Crapemyrtle)

The ‘Yuma’ crapemyrtle is a mildew-resistant hybrid with misty lavender flowers in summer, fall foliage of yellow to brownish red, and smooth gray and green bark. It is a small, multi-trunked tree (or large and broad shrub) that can be used as a focal accent.

Plant ‘Yuma’ in well-drained, more or less neutral soil. Full sun is mandatory for best flowering and overall plant fullness and form. Like most crapemyrtles, ‘Yuma’ is quite drought tolerant once established. You many tip-prune the spent...

(Dwarf Crapemyrtle, Zuni Crapemyrtle)

The mildew-resistant hybrid crapemyrtle 'Zuni' bursts forth in summer with strong-pink flowers that take on a lavender tint. More color arrives in fall as the leaves change from green to orange-red to dark red. The flowers do not fade with age as much as other boldly-colored cultivars. An upright, deciduous shrub, 'Zuni' displays attractive bark of ghostly gray and brown that is a highlight in fall and winter.

Like most crapemyrtles, 'Zuni' grows and flowers best in a well-drained, average soil....