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Alibizia julibrissin
Mimosa
Flattish layered tree, summer cottonball fluff pinkish flower, fairly xeric, flat pods, really messy. Grows 20-30' high and wide.
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Caryopteris x cladonenesis
Blue Mist Spirea
Zone 5
Foliage similar to spirea as well as flowers, blue flower comes out in summer, some heavily serrated some not, does well with heavy pruning, heavy smell attracts butterflies. Grows 4-5' high and wide.
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Fothergilla gardenii
Dwarf Fothergilla
Zone 5
Really red-red orange fall color, really shiny leaf, female part of flower only, specimin flower/fall color, needs acidity and humidity. Grows 2-3' high and wide.
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Itea virginica
Sweet Spire
Zone 5
Long narrow blossom that smells like honey, red-red orange fall color, massed in, more common in humid areas. Grows 6-10' high and wide.
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Celtis occidentalis
Hackberry
Zone 3
Background tree, oblong heart shaped leaf, fruit small black (nasty- even birds won't eat them), narrow bark ridges,-really distinct. Grows 50-70' high and wide.
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Gymnocladus dioicus
Kentucky Coffeetree
Zone 4
Fast tree, grow better in humid areas, bipinnate leaf- massive 3' long, substituse for coffee, large flat pods. Grows 50-70' high and 30-40' wide.
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Carya illinoinensis
Pecan
Zone 5
Related to walnuts, edible landscape. Grows 60-70' high and 40-60' wide.
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Humulus lupulus
Hops
Zone 4
Twining vine, fast growing, controlling, hardy, 3 lobes on leaf, stiff pubescence, hops-fruit papery leaf, fruit made up of bracts. Grows 20-30' long.
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Weigela florida
Weigela
Blooms in summer, trumpet blossoms, pinks, reds, whites, flowering. Hairs run straight down the stem, massing, long arching arms. Grows 5-10' high and wide.
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Jacaranda mimisifolia
Jacaranda
Zone 9
Bipinnate foliage, beautiful sillhoettes, purple blossoms, - slightly trumpet shaped, pods like snake head when opened up, blooms april-september.
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Hypericum spp.
St. Johnswort
Zone 5
Weed varieties, flower, blooms in summer (all summer), yellow flower. Grows 2-3' high and wide.
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Amelanchier canadensis
Serviceberry/ Juneberry/ Saskatoon berry
Zone 3
fall color can be started as plant, goes into stress, orange-red fall color, rough serrations, lots of white flowers in spring, red-purple edible berries. Grows 10-20 high and wide.
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Ampelopsis brevipendunculata
Porcelain Berry
Zone 5
Really pretty blue(multicolored) fruit, deep synusus on leaf, makes really lacey/ snowflakey, twining vines. Grows 20-30' long.
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Buddleia davidii
Butterfly Bush
Zone 5
Attracts butterflies, sometimes called summer lilac, xeric, blooms all summer, squarish, stem greyish cast to pubescence, bloom on new wood.
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Pistache chinensis
Pistache
Zone 6
Really rounded, good street tree, reddish orangish fall color (most outstanding characteristic), shiny green leaves, flowers panicle (not shiny), little round berry in fall comes out in red and goes to purpley blue, stems change color when defoliated in winter. Specimin color changing basic pinnate leaf. Grows 20-35' high and wide.
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Nyssa sylvatica
Black Gum
Zone 4
Good street tree, native to S/SE, tugulo tree in the south, super red fall color, shiny green leaves, small purple fruit. Grows 30-50' high and 20-30' wide.
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Styrax japonicus
Japanese Snowbell
Zone 5
Only find where it is humid and acidic, tiny white blossoms, tons of flowers, dangle down under branches in spring, open flattish canopy, leaf narrow to wide to narrow, little egg shaped fruit. Grows 20-30 high and wide.
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Deutzia gracilis
Slender deutzia
Zone 2
Ruffley white flowers, vasal bush, great flower show, fragrant, blooms in spring, tiny serration, stripey at most cane like stems, stiff pubescence on stem. Grows 4-5' high and wide.
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