RECOMMENDED TREES FOR ARDMORE

SMALL TREES

Common Name Botanical Name Evergreen/ Height/
Deciduous Width Soil Water Exposure
Amur Maple Acer ginnala D 20’x15’ MD/PD L S,PSH
Autumn Olive Elaeagnus unbellata D 15’x10’ MD L S
Crape Myrtle Lagerstromia indica D 15’x10’ MD L S,PSH
Flowering Dogwood Comus florida D 25’x25’ MD M PSH
Holly, Possumhaw Ilex decidua D 15’x10’ PD M S,PSH
Panicled Golden Raintree Koelreuteria paniculata D 25’x20’ MD L S
Callery Pear Pyrus calleryana D 35’x25’ MD M S
Purpleleaf Plum Prunus cerasifera D 20’x10’ MD M S
Redbud* Cercis canadensis D 20’x15’ MD L S,PSH
Smoke tree Cotinus eoggygria D 15’x10’ MD L S
Saucer Magnolia Magnolia soulangiana D 20’x10’ WD M PSH
*State Tree (of Oklahoma)

MEDIUMTREES

Common Name Botanical Name Evergreen/ Height/
Deciduous Width Soil Water Exposure
Ash, Green Fraxinus pennsylvanica D 60’x40’ MD M S
Austrian Pine Pinus nigra E 50’x30’ MD L S
Bald Cypress Taxodium distichum D 60’x30’ MD,PD L S
Caddo Sugar Maple Acer saccharum D 50’x40’ MD L S
Chinese Pistachio Pistacia chinensis D 40’x30’ MD L S
Honeylocust (thornless) Gleditsia triancanthos D 50’x30’ MD M S
Kentucky Coffee-tree, Male Gymnocladous dioica D 50’x30’ MD M S
Lacebark Ellm Ulmus parvifolia D 50’x35’ MD,PD L S,PSH
Loblolly Pine Pinus taeda E 50’x20’ MD M S
Sawtooth Oak Quercus acutissima D 60’x40’ MD M S
Scotch Pine Pinus sylvestris E 50’x30’ MD L S
Southern Magnolia Magnolia grandiflora E 50’x35’ MD M S,PSH
KEY: Soil: MD=Moderately Drained PD=Tolerates Poor Drainage WD=Well-drained
Water: L=Low M=Moderate
Exposure: S=Sun PSH=Part Shade

LARGE TREES

Common Name Botanical Name Evergreen/ Height/
Deciduous Width Soil Water Exposure
American Sycamore Plantanus occidentalis D 80’x60’ MD M S
Bur Oak Quercus macrocarpa D 70’x70’ MD M S
Pecan Cara illinoensis D 80’x40’ MD L S
Shumard Red Oak Quercus shumardii D 80’x50’ MD L S
Sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua D 80’x50’ MD M S
Water Oak Quercus nigra D 70’x80’ MD M S
Trees not recommended for planting:
1) Black Locust 5) Osage Orange (female) 9) Pomegranate 13) Willow
2) Box Elder 6) Cottonwood (female) 10) Silver Maple
3) Buckeye 7) Russian Olive 11) Hawthorn
4) Catalpa 8) Tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus) 12) Poplar

Chinese pistache

Medium-sized tree about 30 to 45 feet high, with a spread of 25 to 35 feet. Known for its brilliant fall color.

Water oak

Large-sized tree about 70 feet high with a spread of 80 feet wide and a rounded crown.

Bald Cypress

Medium to large-sized tree,between 60-90 feet high; deciduous, cone-bearing tree. Enlarged and buttressed at base, often angled and with cone-shaped "knees" from submerged roots.

Red bud

Small to medium sized tree, about 35 feet high with a short trunk 10 inches in diameter and rounded crown of spreading branches and shiny green leaves. Showy blooms in early spring before leaves appear.

Sugar maple

Large tree, about 80 feet high and 2 feet in diameter, with spreading dense crown.

Shumard oak

Medium-sized to large tree 80 feet high with straight trunk and broad round crown; widthcan be 50 feet in diameter..





Dogwood

Smallsized to tree, about25 feet high with irregular crown of spreading or nearly horizontal branches.








Graphics courtesy Forest Trees of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture and Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, Dirr

 * Always examine the soil moisture beneath the mulch before watering.  If the soil is damp 4" below the surface, the soil is probably moist enough to skip that watering.

Mulching Guidelines

               ----Oklahoma Department of Agriculture
Forestry Services