{"id":12124,"date":"2020-09-11T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=12124"},"modified":"2020-06-17T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T22:50:23","slug":"13-native-trees-for-fall-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2020\/09\/11\/13-native-trees-for-fall-color\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Native Trees For Fall Color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

1. Sweet gum <\/strong>(Liquidambar styraciflua<\/em>) – large 60-80 feet tall tree whose fall color is a brilliant mixture of yellows, oranges, purples and reds. Zones (5b)6-9). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘October Glory’ red maple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2. Black gum, tupelo<\/strong> (Nyssa sylvatica<\/em>) \u2013 large 50-50 feet tall tree produces <\/strong>spectacular scarlet fall color. Lots of good cultivars including Green Gable\u00ae, \u2018Wildfire\u2019 and Red Rage\u00ae (Zones 3-9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Red maple <\/strong>(Acer rubrum<\/em>) – large 40 -60 feet tall shade maple known for fast growth rate. ‘October Glory’, ‘Red Sunset’, and others have superior red fall color. (Zones 3-9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Sugar maple (<\/strong>Acer saccharum<\/em>)<\/strong> \u2013 major contributor of fall color in the eastern and Midwest U.S. and Canada (Z<\/strong>ones 3-7). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Red oak (<\/strong>Quercus rubra<\/em>)<\/strong> \u2013 up to Up to 75 feet shade and forest tree Leaves turn crimson, orange, and russet in fall. <\/strong>(Zones 3-7).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. Quaking aspen (<\/strong>Populus tremuloides<\/em>)<\/strong> \u2013 30-50 foot tree that from central U.S., particularly the Rocky Mountain states; its circular-shaped glossy green leaves shimmer in the slightest breeze and turn gold to orange. (Zones 1-6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sweetgum fal color<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

7. Flowering dogwood (<\/strong>Cornus florida<\/em>)<\/strong> – this eastern U.S. native dogwood displays vivid fall colors; leaves turn red purple; birds are attracted by the glossy red berries. (<\/strong>Zones 6-9). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Vine maple<\/strong> (Acer circinatum<\/em>)<\/strong> – small 25-35 feet tall maple native to the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia. In fall the leaves turn orange scarlet or yellow. (Zones 6-9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Sassafras (<\/strong>Sassafras albidum<\/em>)<\/strong> – lobed or mitten-shaped leaves; 35-50 feet tall displays fall color (purple, red, orange and yellow), highly variable from one region to another. (Zones 4-9)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Mockernut hickory (<\/strong>Carya tomentosa<\/em>)<\/strong> – large tap-rooted 50-60 feet tall woodland tree in the eastern and Midwest U.S. exhibits above average golden yellow-brown fall color; not commonly sold at nurseries (Zones 4-9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11.<\/strong> Sourwood <\/b><\/span>(Oxydendrum arboreum<\/em>) – 25-50 feet tree that consistently excellent crimson red fall color; creamy 4-8 inch long finger-like white flower panicles remain through fall. (Zones 5-9) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sourwood (Oxydendrum)
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12. American persimmon (<\/strong>Diospyros virginiana<\/em>)<\/strong> \u2013 large 50- 60 feet tall tree with yellow green fall leaf color in northern U.S. and yellow to reddish purple in the South (Z<\/strong>ones 4-9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

13. Franklin tree (<\/strong>Franklinia alatamaha<\/em>)<\/strong> – native to southeast Georgia, this small 12-20 feet tall tree produces white camellia-like flowers in late summer; variable orange-red fall foliage. (Zones 6-8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Sweet gum (Liquidambar styraciflua) – large 60-80 feet tall tree whose fall color is a brilliant mixture of yellows, oranges, purples and reds. Zones (5b)6-9). 2. Black gum, tupelo (Nyssa sylvatica) \u2013 large 50-50 feet tall tree produces spectacular scarlet fall color. Lots of good cultivars including Green Gable\u00ae, \u2018Wildfire\u2019 and Red Rage\u00ae (Zones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,910,1082,1105,844,806,1357,618,1075,853,623,616,627,1476,1084,1231,858,1174,729,1335,945,1321,777,630,705,1002,706,646,781,7,1,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12124"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12575,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12124\/revisions\/12575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}