(Paperbark Maple)

Paperbark maple is a small, oval to rounded deciduous tree native to central China. It has distinctive three-parted leaves of dark green that turn orange-red and bronze tones in fall. This tree is best known for its beautiful, peeling coppery cinnamon bark, which looks lovely year-round.

Paperbark maple does best in sites with moist, well-drained soil and full sun to partial shade. The winged fruits of this maple are usually sterile, so it is not weedy. Though slow growing, this highly attractive...

(Downy Japanese Maple, Fullmoon Maple, Japanese Maple)

Fullmoon maple is a small, often multi-stemmed, deciduous tree native to Northeast Asia. It has an elegant broad spreading canopy covered with rounded, lobed leaves of medium green that turn bright red, orange or yellow in the fall. Attractive red flowers appear with the emerging leaves; red winged fruits follow. This maple is most frequently grown in the form of its cultivar 'Aconitifolium', which has handsome, deeply incised foliage. Also noteworthy is 'Vitifolium', with large leaves and especially...

(Aconite-leaved Fullmoon Maple, Fullmoon Maple)

Fullmoon maple is a small, often multi-stemmed, deciduous tree native to Northeast Asia. The elegant, broad-spreading branches of the cultivar 'Aconitifolium' are clothed with handsome, deeply incised foliage that turns blood-red in fall. Attractive red flowers appear with the emerging leaves, followed by winged red fruits. The smooth gray bark provides winter interest.

Tolerant of most soils and sun or partial shade, fullmoon maple is a good tree for the lawn, shade garden, or mixed border,...

(Fullmoon Maple)

Fullmoon maple is a small, often multi-stemmed, deciduous tree native to Northeast Asia. It has an elegant broad spreading canopy covered with rounded, lobed leaves of medium green that turn bright red, orange or yellow in the fall. Attractive red flowers appear with the emerging leaves; red winged fruits follow. This maple is most frequently grown in the form of its cultivar 'Aconitifolium', which has handsome, deeply incised foliage. Also noteworthy is 'Vitifolium', with large leaves and especially...

(Fullmoon Maple, Green Cascade Fullmoon Maple)

The beautiful 'Green Cascade' is an elegant, weeping, deciduous shrub with finely lobed leaves and a compact, domed habit. This cultivar of Acer japonicum resembles the dissectum forms of another Northeast Asian species — Acer palmatum. In autumn, its foliage turns shades of red. The naked gray pendulous branches are beautiful in winter, particularly when outlined with snow.

Tolerant of most soils and sun or partial shade, this cultivar makes a lovely specimen plant for a lawn,...

(Fullmoon Maple, Lion's Headdress Fullmoon Maple, Shishigashira Fullmoon Maple)

Fullmoon maple is a small, often multi-stemmed, deciduous tree native to Northeast Asia. It has an elegant broad spreading canopy covered with rounded, lobed leaves of medium green that turn bright red, orange or yellow in the fall. Attractive red flowers appear with the emerging leaves; red winged fruits follow. This maple is most frequently grown in the form of its cultivar 'Aconitifolium', which has handsome, deeply incised foliage. Also noteworthy is 'Vitifolium', with large leaves and especially...

(Downy Japanese Maple, Fullmoon Maple, Grape-leaved Downy Japanese Maple)

Fullmoon maple is a small, often multi-stemmed, deciduous tree native to Northeast Asia. The elegant, broad-spreading branches of the cultivar 'Vitifolium' are clothed with bold, lobed leaves that recall those of grape. They turn brilliant shades in fall. Attractive red flowers appear with the emerging leaves, followed by winged red fruits. The smooth gray bark provides winter interest.

Tolerant of most soils and sun or partial shade, fullmoon maple is a good tree for the lawn, shade garden,...

(Chalk Maple, White-barked Maple)

In regions where the sugar maple falters because of intense summer heat or dry soils, the chalk maple may prove a worthy substitute. Native to the understory of the woods across the American Southeast, from eastern Texas and Oklahoma eastward to the Florida Panhandle and the Carolinas, the chalk oak can develop with a single trunk or multiple trunks. It always displays low branches and creates an upright, rounded silhouette.

Tiny yellow flower occur in spring, followed by green leaves with five...

(Ash-Leaved Maple, Boxelder)

Box elder is a medium-sized to large, fast growing, short-lived deciduous tree native to many regions in North America. Typically low-branched with furrowed light gray to gray-brown bark, it bears bright green, compound leaves with three or sometimes five leaflets. Inconspicuous greenish yellow flowers emerge with the leaves. Male and female flowers occur on separate trees. Box elder is rarely grown as a landscape tree due to its weedy, weak-wooded nature, but a few cultivars with unique ornamental...

(Ash-Leaved Maple, Boxelder)

Box elder is a short-lived deciduous tree native to many regions in North America. Although sometimes scorned as an ornamental plant because of its weak wood and its penchant for self-sowing, it has given rise to many attractive cultivars. Introduced in the late nineteenth century, 'Auratum' has three-parted, lemon-yellow leaves with contrasting red stems. The leaves hold their color through summer. Fall color is usually unremarkable. A female selection, it produces inconspicuous greenish yellow...