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Articles tagged Large Deciduous Shrubs

• Common Lilac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs, Lilac
  Botanical Name: Syringa vulgarisCommon Name: Common Lilac Click on an image to enlarge Syringa vulgaris 'Charlotte Morgan' flowers Height: 8-15' Spread: 6-12' Habit/Form: Upright Rate: Medium Zone: 3-7Cultural...

• Showy Cotoneaster

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Cotoneaster multifloraCommon Name: Showy Cotoneaster Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form leaves flowers fruit Height: 8-12'  Spread: 10-15'  Habit/Form: Upright, mounded...

• Variegated Angelica Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Aralia elata 'Variegata'Common Name: Variegated Angelica Tree Reviewed 2/2012 Height: 10-15' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Upright, colony-forming Growth Rate: Slow  Zone: 4-9Cultural Requirements: Full sun to shade; moist soil;...

• Blackhaw Viburnum

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Viburnum prunifoliumCommon Name: Blackhaw Viburnum Click on an image to enlarge form flower fruits fall color Height: 12-15' Spread: 8-12' Habit/Form: Rounded Growth Rate: Slow to medium ...

• Arnold Promise Hybrid Witch-hazel

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Hamamelis x intermedia 'Arnold Promise'Common Name: Arnold Promise Hybrid Witch-hazel Updated 4/2012 Height: 12-15' Spread: 12-15' Habit/Form: Vase-shaped Growth Rate: Medium  Zone: 5-8Cultural Requirements: Full sun to part...

• Large Deciduous Shrubs (over 8 feet)

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: shrubs, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Large Deciduous Shrubs for the Home Landscape Generally grow 8 feet and taller Plants with multiple stems arising from a common crown at ground level, or single-stemmed plants that begin branching at a point near the ground Lose their leaves in...

• Flowering Almond

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
   Botanical Name: Prunus triloba Common Name: Flowering Almond Form Branch Flower Height: 12-15' Spread: 12-15' Habit/Form: Rounded tree-like shrub Growth Rate: Medium (6-12 inches per year) Zone: 3-6Cultural...

• Northern BurgundyTM Southern Arrowwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Chicagoland Grows, birds, Large Deciduous Shrubs
   Botanical Name: Viburnum dentatum 'Morton'Common Name: Northern BurgundyTM Southern Arrowwood Height: 10-12' Spread: 6-8' Habit/Form: Upright to vase-shaped Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 3-8Cultural Requirements: Sun or shade; adaptable to...

• Autumn JazzTM Southern Arrowwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs, Chicagoland Grows, Viburnum
  Botanical Name: Viburnum dentatum 'Ralph Senior'Common Name: Autumn JazzTM Southern Arrowwood Height: 8-10' Spread: 6-8' Habit/Form: Compact, vase-shaped Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 3-8Fruit: Red to purple*Fall Color: Yellow orange to red...

• Bottlebrush Buckeye

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees & Shrubs with Fabulous Fall Color, Summer-Flowering Trees & Shrubs, Plants for Shady Sites, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Aesculus parviflora Common Name: Bottlebrush Buckeye Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fall color Height: 8-12' Spread: 12-15' Habit/Form: Broad, spreading Growth Rate: Slow ...

• Fringe Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Chionanthus virginicusCommon Name: Fringe Tree Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flower fruit Height: 12-20' Spread: 10-20' Habit/Form: Oval to wide spreading shrub or small...

• Seven-Son Flower

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Heptacodium miconioides Common Name: Seven-Son Flower Updated 4/2012 form bark flowers sepals Height: 15-20' Spread: 8-12' Habit/Form: Upright, irregular, loose  Growth Rate: Medium /Fast...

• Wayfaring Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs, Viburnums
  Botanical Name: Viburnum lantanaCommon Name: Wayfaring Tree Click on an image to enlarge. form flowers Height: 10-15' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Upright-rounded Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 4-7Cultural Requirements: Full sun...

• Mohican Wayfaring Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Viburnum lantana 'Mohican' Common Name: Mohican Wayfaring Tree Click on an image to enlarge form flowers Height: 8-10' Spread: 6-9' Habit/Form: Upright Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 4-7Cultural Requirements:...

• Devil's Walking Stick

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Aralia spinosaCommon Name: Devil's Walking Stick Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form trunk flowers leaves Height: 10-20' Spread: 10-20'+  Habit/Form: Erect colony-forming...

• Bailey Red-Osier Dogwood, Red-twig Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Cornus sericea var. baileyiCommon Name: Bailey Red-Osier Dogwood, Red-twig DogwoodHeight: 6-9' Spread: 6-9' Habit/Form: Spreading Growth Rate: Fast (More thant 12 inches per year) Zone: 2-7Cultural Requirements: Full sun to part...

• Midwinter Fire Blood-twigged Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Cornus sanguinea 'Midwinter Fire' Common Name: Midwinter Fire Blood-twigged Dogwood Updated 3/2012 Click on the image to enlarge   Height: 8-10' Spread: 8- 10'  Habit/Form: Spreading, rounded Growth Rate:...

• Cardinal Red-Osier Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Cornus sericea ssp. sericea 'Cardinal' Common Name: Cardinal Red-Osier Dogwood Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge   winter summer   Height: 6-9' Spread: 6-9' Habit/Form: Broad...

• Shining Sumac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Rhus, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Sumac
  Botanical Name: Rhus copallina Common Name: Shining Sumac Click on an image to enlarge form fall color Height: 5-7' Spread: 4-6' Habit/Form: Compact and spreading Growth Rate: Slow to medium Zone: 4-8Cultural Requirements: A...

• Gray Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Large Deciduous Shrubs, native, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Cornus racemosa Common Name: Gray Dogwood Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fall color Height: 10-15' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Multi-stemmed, upright spreading Growth Rate: Slow...

• Daydream Eurasian Smoke Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Cotinus coggygria 'Daydream'Common Name: Daydream Eurasian Smoke Tree Updated 3/2012 Height: 10-15' Spread: 10-15'  Habit/Form: Upright Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 5-8Cultural Requirements: Best in well-drained soil in full...

• Pagoda Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants for Shady Sites, Native Trees, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Butterflies, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Cornus alternifoliaCommon Name: Pagoda Dogwood Upated 3/2012   Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fall color Height: 15-25' Spread: 20-25' Habit/Form: Oval, most commonly found as...

• Southern Arrowwood Viburnum

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Butterflies, Viburnums
  Botanical Name: Viburnum dentatum Common Name: Southern Arrowwood Viburnum Click on an image to enlarge form leaves flowers fruits Height: 8-10 (15)' Spread: 6-15' Habit/Form: Rounded to vase shaped with...

• Chicago Lustre Southern Arrowwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs, Chicagoland Grows, birds, Viburnum
  Botanical Name: Viburnum dentatum 'Synnestvedt'Common Name: Chicago LustreTM Southern Arrowwood Height: 8-10' Spread: 8-10' Habit/Form: Uniform upright rounded shrub Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 3-8Fruit: Red to purpleFall Color: BurgundyCultural...

• Smooth Sumac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
   Botanical Name: Rhus glabraCommon Name: Smooth Sumac Click on am image to enlarge form fruit fall color Height: 10-15' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Large, suckering, colonizing shrub. Growth Rate: Fast Zone:...

• Staghorn Sumac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Four Season Landscape
  Rhus typhinaCommon Name: Staghorn Sumac Click on an image to enlarge form fruit fall color Height: 15-25' Spread: 15-30' Habit/Form: Large, suckering, colonizing shrub. Growth Rate: Fast Zone: 4-8Cultural Requirements:...

• Cut-leaved Sumac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
   Botanical Name: Rhus typhina 'Laciniata'Common Name: Cut-leaved Sumac Height: 15-20' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Large, upright suckering, colonizing shrub Growth Rate: Fast Zone: 4-8Cultural Requirements: Best in full sun in most soils...

• Panicled Hydrangea

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Butterflies, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Hydrangea paniculataCommon Name: Panicled Hydrangea Updated 5/2012 Height: 10-20' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Upright to spreading Growth Rate: Fast Zone: 3-8Cultural Requirements: Full sun to part shade; prefers moist,...

• Peegee Hydrangea

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs, hydrangeas
  Botanical Name: Hydrangea paniculata 'Grandiflora'Common Name: Peegee Hydrangea Updated 5/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flower Height: 10-20' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Rounded to spreading Growth Rate: Fast ...

• Unique Panicled Hydrangea

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: hydrangeas, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Hydrangea paniculata 'Unique'Common Name: Unique Panicled Hydrangea Height: 6-10' Spread: 6-10' Habit/Form: Rounded to spreading Growth Rate: Fast (More than 12 inches per year)  Zone: 3-8Cultural Requirements: Best in...

• Common Witch-Hazel

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Butterflies, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Midwest, native, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Hamamelis virginiana Common Name: Common Witch-hazel Updated 4/2012 Click on a photo to enlarge form fall color flowers Height: 15-25' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Upright to rounded Growth Rate:...

• Vernal Witch-Hazel

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Hamamelis vernalisCommon Name: Vernal Witch-Hazel Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge fall color flowers Height: 6-10' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Rounded to upright Growth Rate: Medium  Zone:...

• Eurasian Smoke Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Summer-Flowering Trees & Shrubs, not favored by deer, Large Deciduous Shrubs, f
  Botanical Name: Cotinus coggygriaCommon Name: Eurasian Smoke Tree Updated 3/2012 Height: 10-15' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Multi-stemmed shrub or single trunk tree, often upright in habit   Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 5-8 Cultural...

• Nordine Eurasian Smoke Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Cotinus coggygria ' Nordine' Common Name: Nordine Eurasian Smoke Tree Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge flowers leaves Height: 8-10' Spread: 10-12' Habit/Form: Upright-spreading. Growth Rate: Medium...

• Royal Purple Eurasian Smoke Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
   Botanical Name: Cotinus coggygria 'Royal Purple'Common Name: Royal Purple Eurasian Smoke Tree Updated 3/2012   Form Leaf Smoke Click image to enlarge   Height: 8-10' Spread: 10-12' Habit/Form: Open...

• Velvet Cloak Eurasian Smoke Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Cotinus coggygria 'Velvet Cloak'Common Name: Velvet Cloak Eurasian Smoke Tree Updated 3/2012 Height: 8-10' Spread: 10-12' Habit/Form: Open, upright spreading Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 5-8 Cultural Requirements: Best planted in...

• Red-Osier Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Butterflies, Large Deciduous Shrubs, native, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Cornus sericea ssp. sericeaCommon Name: Red-Osier Dogwood Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge leaves winter form Height: 7-9' Spread: 8-10' Habit/Form: Broad spreading, rounded, multi-stemmed Growth...

• Wahoo

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name:  Euonymus atropurpureusCommonName:  Wahoo Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Form Leaf in fall Fruit Bark   Height: 12-20' Spread: 10-20'...

• Possum-haw

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, native, Midwest, Large Deciduous Shrubs, birds, Four Season Landscape
  Bonatical name:  Ilex deciduaCommon Name:  Possum-haw Click on image to enlarge. Form Leaf Fruit Height: 10-15'+ Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Rounded Rate: Medium (6-12 inches per year) Zone:...

• Spicebush

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, not favored by deer, native, Midwest, Large Deciduous Shrubs, butterfly, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name:  Lindera benzoin *Common Name:  Spicebush   Click on image to enlarge Winter form Fall form Fall leaf   Fruit Bark Height: 6-12' Spread: 6-12' ...

• American Bladdernut

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Midwest
  Botanical Name:  Staphylea trifolia*Common Name:  American Bladdernut Click on an image to enlarge Form Leaf Fruit Bark Height: 10-15' Spread: 6-12' Habit/Form: Upright,...

• Nannyberry Viburnum

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Butterflies, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanic Name: Viburnum lentagoCommon Name:  Nannyberry Viburnum Click on an image to enlarge form Height:  15-20' Spread:  10-15' Form:  Upright Rate:  Medium (6-12 inches per year)Zone:  3-7...

• Redwing American Cranberry-Bush

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Viburnum, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Chicagoland Grows
  Botanic Name:  Viburnum trilobum 'J.N. Select'Common Name:  Redwing American Cranberry-Bush Click on images to enlarge form fruits Height:  6-8' Spread:  6-8' Form:  Upright to rounded Rate: ...

• Brevipetala Chinese Witch-hazel

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Hamamelis 'Brevipetala'Common Name: Brevipetala Chinese Witch-hazel Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flower fruits Height: 8-10' Spread 8-10' Habit/Form: Upright in youth; rounded to...

• Spindle Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Euonymus europaeusCommon Name: Spindle Tree Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge flowers fruits Height: 12-25' Spread: 10-20' Habit/Form: Upright Rate: Medium/Fast  Zone: 4-7Cultural Requirements:...

• Redcap Spindle Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Euonymus europaeus 'Redcap'Common Name: Redcap Spindle Tree Updated 4/2012 Height: 12-25' Spread: 10-20' Habit/Form: Upright to Rounded Rate: Medium Zone: 4-7Cultural Requirements: Full sun to part shade; moist, well-drained soil;...

• Beauty-Bush

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Kolkwitzia amabilisCommon Name: Beauty-Bush Click on an image to enlarge form flowers Height: 6-10+' Spread: 5-10' Habit/Form: Upright arching to Vase-shaped Rate: Fast (More than 12 inches per...

• Nanking Cherry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Prunus tomentosaCommon Name: Nanking cherry Height: 6-10' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Rounded to broad-spreading Rate: Medium (6-12 inches per yera)/Fast (More than 12 inches per year) Zone: 3-6Cultural Requirements: Best in full...

• Chinese Lilac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Syringa x chinensisCommon Name: Chinese Lilac   Height: 8-15' Spread: 8-15' Habit/Form: Upright, rounded to oval Rate: S/M Zone: 3-7Cultural Requirements: Best in full sun; well-drained soil; tolerates dry, alkaline soils;...

• Hahs Cranberrybush

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs, Viburnums
  Botanical Name: Viburnum trilobum 'Hahs'Common Name: Hahs Cranberrybush Height: 6-8' Spread: 6-8' Form: Upright to rounded Rate: M Zone: 2-7 Cultural Requirements: Full sun to part shade; moist, well-drained soils with consistent moisture;...