Salix alba 'Tristis'
WEEPING GOLDEN WILLOW
- Upright open rounded crown with pendulous golden branchlets
- Young branches are golden-yellow, maturing to gray-brown and deeply furrowed
- Flowers emerge yellow-white after the leaves emerge
HEIGHT: 15-20 m · SPREAD: 15-20 m
Salix caprea 'Pendula'
WEEPING PUSSY WILLOW
- AKA Salix caprea 'Kilmarnock'
- Small weeping form, typically grafted on a stem
- Silky silver catkins
HEIGHT: 200-250 cm · SPREAD: 125-150 cm
Salix integra 'Hakuro-nishiki'
DAPPLED WILLOW
- AKA Salix integra 'Albo-maculata'
- Pendant yellowish catkins
- New foliage emerges pink in the spring, maturing to creamy-white and green
HEIGHT: 150-175 cm · SPREAD: 150-200 cm
Salix purpurea 'Pendula'
WEEPING PURPLE-OSIER WILLOW
- Wide spreading, somewhat pendulous form and typically grafted on a stem
- Gray-silver catkins
- Narrow leaves with blue-white undersides
HEIGHT: 175-200 cm · SPREAD: 100-125 cm
Salix x Scarlet Curls® ('Scarcuzam')
SCARLET CURLS® WILLOW
- Yellow catkins appear before the leaves
- Medium-green lance-shaped leaves are occasionally twisted
- Branches are orange to red when young, maturing to yellow
HEIGHT: 5-6 m · SPREAD: 5-6 m
Sambucus nigra Black Lace® ('Eva') (PP15575, CPBR2633)
BLACK LACE® ELDERBERRY
- Proven Winners® ColorChoice®
- Pink lemon-scented flowers in a flat-topped cluster
- Purple-black berries in clusters in July if a cross-pollinator is present
HEIGHT: 225-250 cm · SPREAD: 225-250 cm
Sassafras albidum
SASSAFRAS
- Shrubby when young, maturing to a dense, pyramidal crown
- Can spread by root suckers to form colonies
- Clusters of greenish-yellow flowers; dioecious, having separate male and female trees
HEIGHT: 10-15 m · SPREAD: 9-12 m
Sorbus alnifolia
KOREAN MOUNTAINASH
- Small densely-branched ornamental tree
- Creamy-white blooms
- Flowers are followed by pink to orange to scarlet berries
HEIGHT: 12-15 m · SPREAD: 6-8 m
Sorbus aucuparia
EUROPEAN MOUNTAINASH
- Narrow, upright to oval crown with ascending branches
- Green compound leaves in the summer turn reddish-purple in the fall
- Flat-topped clusters of small white flowers
HEIGHT: 10-12 m · SPREAD: 7-8 m
Sorbus aucuparia Cardinal Royal® ('Michred') (COPF)
CARDINAL ROYAL® MOUNTAINASH
- Narrow, upright to oval crown with ascending branches
- Dark green compound leaves in the summer turn reddish-purple in the fall
- Flat-topped clusters of small white flowers
HEIGHT: 10-12 m · SPREAD: 5-6 m
Sorbus aucuparia 'Rossica'
RUSSIAN MOUNTAINASH
- Narrow, upright to oval crown with ascending branches
- Green compound leaves in the summer turn orange-red in the fall
- Flat-topped clusters of small white flowers
HEIGHT: 9-10 m · SPREAD: 5-6 m
Sorbus decora
SHOWY MOUNTAINASH
- Upright, oval to rounded crown with ascending branches
- Blue-green compound leaves in the summer turn reddish-purple in the fall
- Flat-topped clusters of small white flowers
HEIGHT: 8-10 m · SPREAD: 6-8 m
Sorbus thuringiaca 'Fastigiata'
OAKLEAF MOUNTAINASH
- Broadly upright oval crown with ascending branches
- Elliptic to ovate deeply-lobed deep green leaves in the summer
- Foliage turns a yellow-brown in the fall
HEIGHT: 6-8 m · SPREAD: 3-4 m
Stewartia pseudocamellia
JAPANESE STEWARTIA
- Vase-shaped crown with a rounded to oval habit
- Bark exfoliates in strips of gray, orange, and reddish-brown
- Leaves emerge bronze-purple in the spring, turning dark green by summer
HEIGHT: 10-12 m · SPREAD: 5-6 m
Styrax japonicus
JAPANESE SNOWBELL
- Compact tree with horizontal branching
- Broad, flat-topped crown
- Pendulous clusters of bell-shaped mildly fragrant blooms
HEIGHT: 8-10 m · SPREAD: 8-10 m
Syringa meyeri 'Palibin'
DWARF KOREAN LILAC
- Dense, rounded to oval, non-suckering medium-dwarf lilac
- Sweetly fragrant single pale pink flowers
- Small glossy dark green leaves
HEIGHT: 100-125 cm · SPREAD: 125-150 cm
Syringa pekinensis Summer Charm® ('DTR 124')
SUMMER CHARM® TREE LILAC
- Upright, oval to round habit
- Fragrant creamy-white blooms mature to pale yellow
- Glossy dark-green foliage turns yellow in autumn
HEIGHT: 5-6 m · SPREAD: 4-5 m
Syringa pubescens subsp. julianae 'Hers'
WEEPING LILAC
- Typically top-grafted; weeping crown with arching branches
- Sweetly fragrant single pale pink flowers
- Glossy dark green leaves
HEIGHT: 125-175 cm · SPREAD: 100-125 cm
Syringa reticulata
JAPANESE TREE LILAC
- White panicles of sweetly fragrant single flowers
- Blooms later than other lilacs
- If flowers are not removed, seeds persist into the winter
HEIGHT: 9-10 m · SPREAD: 4-5 m
Syringa reticulata 'Ivory Silk' (COPF)
IVORY SILK TREE LILAC
- Upright, pyramidal to oval habit
- Large clusters of creamy-white flowers
- Elliptic to pointed-oval dark green leaves turn yellow in the fall
HEIGHT: 7-8 m · SPREAD: 5-6 m
Syringa x vulgaris 'Beauty of Moscow'
BEAUTY OF MOSCOW LILAC
- AKA Syringa x vulgaris 'Krasavitsa Moskvy'
- Lavender-rose buds open to creamy-white very fragrant double flowers
- Dark green leaves turn burgundy or bronze in the fall
HEIGHT: 200-250 cm · SPREAD: 175-200 cm
Syringa x vulgaris 'Charles Joly'
CHARLES JOLY LILAC
- Deep reddish-purple double flowers
- Dark green leaves turn burgundy or bronze in the fall
- Upright, oval habit
HEIGHT: 200-250 cm · SPREAD: 175-200 cm
Syringa x vulgaris 'Ludwig Spaeth'
LUDWIG SPAETH LILAC
- Deep purple single flowers
- Dark green leaves turn burgundy or bronze in the fall
- Upright, oval habit
HEIGHT: 200-250 cm · SPREAD: 175-200 m
Syringa x vulgaris 'Sensation'
SENSATION LILAC
- Single flowers have purple petals with pure white borders
- Dark green leaves turn burgundy or bronze in the fall
- Upright, oval habit
HEIGHT: 200-250 cm · SPREAD: 175-200 cm