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Late Spring Woody Landscape Plants

This page was created for students of botany and landscape horticulture. The images are for educational purposes and not intended for commercial use.  (Last update: March 2013)

• Aesculus hippocastanum-MAD-ARB01s - leaves
• Aesculus hippocastanum - SmithCol01s - flowers
• Aesculus hippocastanum - SmithCol03s - flowers close-up
• Aesculus pavia - SmithCol01s - flowers and leaves
• Aesculus pavia - JMU-ARB01s - flowers and leaves
• Aesculus pavia - SmithCol02s - flower close-up
• Aesculus pavia - SmithCol03s - flower close-up
• Aesculus pavia - SmithCol04s - habit
• Aesculus pavia - USNA01s - fruit
• Aesculus X carnea - LGBG01s - flowers and leaves
• Aesculus X carnea 'Briotii' - SmithCol01s - habit
• Aesculus X carnea 'Briotii' - TOWER-HILL01S - flowers and leaves
• Aesculus X carnea 'Briotii' - TGIV-PT-UT02EDITs - fruits
• Amelanchier arborea 'Autumn Brilliance' - LGBG_01s - habit
• Amelanchier arborea 'Autumn Brilliance' - LGBG_02s - habit, fall color
• Amelanchier laevis LGBG_01s - habit, spring bloom
• Amelanchier x grandiflora - TOWERHILL02s - leaves and flowers
• Amelanchier x grandiflora - UR01s - leaves and fruits
• Amelanchier laevis LGBG_02s - flowers
• Betula nigra 'Heritage' LGBG02s - habit in winter
• Betula nigra 'Heritage' LGBG04s - habit in winter
• Betula nigra 'Heritage' LGBG10s - habit in summer
• Betula nigra 'Heritage' BG01s - habit in summer
• Betula nigra 'Heritage' LGBG12s - leaves
•  Betula nigra 'Heritage'  LGBG06s - leaves, staminate catkins and pistillate catkins
• Betula nigra 'Heritage' LGBG05s - leaves and immature fruiting catkins
• Betula nigra 'Heritage' LGBG01s - exfoliating bark
• Betula papyrifera W-MA06s - large limb
• Betula papyrifera W-MA04s - leaves
• Betula papyrifera W-MA02s - staminate (pollen) catkins
• Betula pendula 'Laciniata' W-MA01s - habit
• Betula pendula 'Laciniata' W-MA02s - large limbs
• Betula platyphylla UR1s - leaves and immature fruiting catkin
• Betula platyphylla UR3s - trunk with white bark
• Betula platyphylla 'Whitespire' LGBG01s - trunk with white bark
• Betula platyphylla 'Whitespire' LGBG02s - trunk with white bark, close-up
• Calycanthus floridus - TOWER-HILL02s - flowers and leaves
• Calycanthus floridus - 611_QU_01s - flower
• Calycanthus floridus - LGBG01s - white flower form
• Calycanthus floridus 'Athens' - LGBG03s - yellow flower form
• Cercis canadensis 'Appalachian Red' - LGBG01s - habit, flowering
• Cercis canadensis 'Tennessee Pink' - LGBG01s - habit, flowering
• Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy' - JMU-ARB01s - habit, foliage
• Cercis canadensis - UR01s - leaves and fruits
• Cercis canadensis - UR02s - flowers on trunk
• Cercis canadensis - UR04s - fall color
• Cercis chinensis 'Avondale' LGBG02s - habit
• Cercis chinensis 'Avondale' LGBG04s - flowers
• Chionanthus virginicus - LGBG14s - habit
• Chionanthus virginicus - 611QU01s - flowers
• Cladrastis kentuckea -LG02s - habit
• Cladrastis kentuckea - LG01s - flowers
• Cladrastis kentuckea- USNA01s - fruits
• Cornus florida - UR01s - habit, flowering
• Cornus florida - UR08s - habit, flowering
• Cornus florida - UR07s - habit, fall color
• Cornus florida - barkUR01s - bark
• Cornus florida - UR02s - flowers
• Cornus florida - UR03s - flowers close-up
• Cornus florida 'Rubra' - UR01s - flowers
• Cornus florida 'Rubra' - UR02s - flowers close-up
• Cornus florida - LGBG01s - fall color and flower buds
• Cornus florida - UR05s - fall color and flower buds
• Cornus kousa - LG01s - habit
• Cornus kousa - UR02s - bark
• Cornus kousa - VATECH01s - flowers and leaves
• Cornus kousa - UR03s - fruits
• Cornus kousa - UR01s - fruit and leaves
• Cornus kousa - UR03s - fruits, close-up
• Cytissus scoparius - 03s - stems, leaves, flowers - CAUTION: shows potential to become invasive
• Cytissus scoparius - 02s - habit - CAUTION: shows potential to become invasive
• Cytissus scoparius - 04s - flowers - CAUTION: shows potential to become invasive
• Cytissus scoparius - 05s - close-up of flower - CAUTION: shows potential to become invasive
• Daphne odora LGBG_08s - habit
• Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata' LGBG02s - habit
• Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata' LGBG03s - leaves and flower buds
• Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata' LGBG06s - flowers, closeup
• Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata' PORTLAND-OR 01s - flowers
• Daphne odora 'Geisha Girl' USNA01s- variegated leaves
• Daphne odora 'Ringmaster' USNA 03s - variegated leaves
• Daphne x burkwoodii 'Carol Mackie' LGBG01s - branches with leaves and flowers
• Daphne x burkwoodii 'Carol Mackie' LGBG02s - branches with leaves and flowers
• Daphne x burkwoodii 'Carol Mackie' LGBG03s - branches with leaves and flowers
• Daphne x burkwoodii 'Somerset' LGBG04s - habit, with flowers
• Daphne x burkwoodii 'Somerset' LGBG06s -  flowers
• Davidia involucrata - VAN-DUSEN-BOT-GARD01s - multiple trunk specimen
• Davidia involucrata - LGBG01s - leaves
• Davidia involucrata - LGBG06s - leaves and flowers
• Davidia involucrata - USNA01s - flowers
• Davidia involucrata - LGBG08s - flower cluster, close-up
• Davidia involucrata - LGBG15s - leaves and fruits
• Deutzia gracilis 'Nikko' - LGBG01s - habit
• Deutzia scabra 'Punctata' - LGBG01s - leaves and flowers
• Deutzia scabra 'Punctata' - LGBG02s - leaves and flowers
• Enkianthus campanulatus - 611QU02s - flowers
• Enkianthus campanulatus - TOWER-HILL02s - flowers and leaves
• Enkianthus campanulatus 'Showy Lantern' - TOWER-HILL03s - habit
• Enkianthus campanulatus 'Showy Lantern' - TOWER-HILL01s - flowers
• Enkianthus campanulatus 'Showy Lantern' - TOWER-HILL04s - flowers with raindrops
• Fothergilla gardenii - LGBG01s - flowers
• Fothergilla gardenii - TOWER-HILL01s - flower clusters
• Fothergilla gardenii - TOWER-HILL02s - flower cluster
• Fothergilla major - NBG01s - habit
• Fothergilla major 'Mt Airy' - NGB01s - habit
• Fothergilla major - LGBG01s - flowers and leaves
• Fothergilla major - TOWER-HILL03S - leaves, flowers and young fruits
• Fothergilla major - MILLSAPS02s - fall color
• Gelsemium sempervirens - NBG03s - habit, cascading over wall
• Gelsemium sempervirens - LGBG21s - habit, on trellis
• Gelsemium sempervirens - LGBG06s - leaves and flower
• Gelsemium sempervirens - NBG01s - leaves and flowers
• Halesia carolina - BOT-GARD-WASH-DC01s - habit
• Halesia diptera - MT-VERNON01s - leaves and fruits
• Halesia tetraptera - LGBG01s - leaves and flowers
• Halesia tetraptera - LGBG03s - leaves
• Halesia tetraptera - UBC01s - leaves and fruits
• Illicium_'Woodland_Ruby'_BOT-GARD-WASH-DC - leaves and flowers
• Illicium_'Woodland_Ruby' - NBG05s - flower closeup
• Illicium_'Woodland_Ruby' - NBG13s - habit
• Illicium_floridanum_'Athens' - LGBG03as - flower closeup
• Illicium_floridanum - NBG02s - flower closeup
• Illicium_floridanum - NBG14s - leaves and flowers
• Illicium_floridanum - NBG22s - flower and flower bud closeup
• Illicium_floridanum - NBG23s - habit
• Kalmia latifolia UR04s - habit, young plant
• Kalmia latifolia SMITH-COL03S - habit, mature plants
• Kalmia latifolia UR02s - flowers and leaves
• Kalmia latifolia UR03s - flowers
• Kalmia latifolia 'Kalaidescope' - NBG01s - flowers
• Kerria japonica 'Pleniflora' - LGBG03s - habit
• Kerria japonica 'Pleniflora' - LGBG01s - double flowers
• Kerria japonica 'Pleniflora' - LGBG02s - double flowers
• Kerria japonica - LGBG01s - typical single flowers
• Kerria japonica 'Golden Guinea' - LGBG03s - single flowers
• Kerria japonica 'Variegata' - LGBG01s - single flowers (variegated leaves)
• Ligustrum_japonicum - HAMPTON-U01s - habit (pruned specimen) with flowers
• Ligustrum_japonicum - LGBG01s - leaves and mature fruits
• Ligustrum japonicum 'Jack Frost' - NBG03s - leaves (variegated cultivar)
• Ligustrum lucidum - RICHMOND-VA01s - habit
• Ligustrum lucidum - RICHMOND-VA02s - habit
• Ligustrum lucidum - RICHMOND-VA04s - leaves and flowers
• Ligustrum lucidum - LGBG02s - leaves and immature fruits
• Ligustrum_sinense - 4760-AN01s - leaf and flower cluster - CAUTION: invasive
• Ligustrum_sinense - PNWR01s - leaves and immature fruits - CAUTION: invasive
• Lonicera japonica - UR03s - vine habit with flowers - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Lonicera japonica - UR04s - leaves - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Lonicera japonica - UR02s - flowers and leaves - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Lonicera japonica - TGIVPT-UT01s - flowers and leaves - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Lonicera japonica - USNA01s - leaves and fruits - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Lonicera japonica - USNA02s - leaves and fruits - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Lonicera sempervirens - LGBG01s - leaves and flowers
• Lonicera sempervirens - LGBG03s - leaves and flowers
• Lonicera sempervirens 'Sulphurea' - LGG01s - leaves and flowers
• Loropetalum chinense - NBG02s - habit
• Loropetalum chinense - LGBG08s - habit
• Loropetalum chinense 'Pizzaz' - NBG01s - habit
• Loropetalum chinense - NBG01s - flowers
• Loropetalum chinense - LGBG07s - habit (white flowers)
• Loropetalum chinense - LGBG01s - flowers (white)
• Malus 'Red Jade' NBG02s - tree habit
• Malus 'Red Jade' NBG01s - fruits
• Malus sp LGBG01s - tree habit
• Paulownia tomentosa - BLITHEWOLD03s - habit
• Paulownia tomentosa - BLITHEWOLD01s - flowers - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Paulownia tomentosa - BLITHEWOLD02s - flower, close-up - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Paulownia tomentosa - RICE-HOUSE-RICHMOND-VA02s - leaves and fruits
• Philadelphus 'Buckley's Quill' - LGBG01s - leaves and flowers (double-flower cultivar)
• Philadelphus coronarius' Aurea' - LGBG05s - habit (yellow-leaf cultivar)
• Philadelphus coronarius' Aurea' - LGBG01s -leaves and flowers (yellow-leaf cultivar)
• Philadelphus 'Snowflake' - LGBG02s - flower
• Prunus laurocersus 'Schipkaensis' LBGB03s - habit
• Prunus laurocersus 'Schipkaensis' LBGB04s - flowers and leaves
• Prunus laurocersus 'Otto Luyken' -NBG02s - flowers
• Prunus laurocersus - NBG03s - branch with flowers and leaves
• Prunus laurocersus - UR02s - flowers, close-up
• Prunus sargentii LGBG01s - flowers and leaves
• Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan' - UR03s - habit, in flower
• Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan' - UR04s - habit, fall color
• Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan' - UR06s - habit, fall color
• Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan' - UR01s - flowers
• Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis' - LGBG03s -flowers, close-up
• Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis' - LGBG07s - flowers, close-up
• Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula' - LGBG01s - habit, in flowering
• Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula' - LGBG02s - habit, in flower
• Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula' - NBG02s - habit, in summer
• Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula' - LGBG06s - leaf bases, glands, stipule
• Prunus x yedoensis - LGBG02s - habit
• Prunus x yedoensis - UR03s - bark
• Prunus x yedoensis - UR08s - flowering branches
• Prunus x yedoensis - UR07s - flowers, close-up
• Pyrus calleryana 'Bradford' - UR05s - habit - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Pyrus calleryana 'Bradford' - HENRICO02s - habit, after loss of central branches - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Pyrus calleryana 'Bradford' - UR01s - flowers - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Pyrus calleryana 'Bradford' - UR02s - flower close-up - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Rhododendron atlanticum - JMU-arb01s - flowers and leaves
• Rhododendron atlanticum - JMU-arb02s - flowers and leaves
• Rhododendron calendulaceum - JMU-arb01s - flowers and leaves
• Rhododendron calendulaceum - JMU-arb02s - flowers and leaves
• Rhododendron canescens 'Varnado Pink' - NBG01s - habit
• Rhododendron canescens 'Varnado Pink'- NBG02s - flowers and leaves
• Rhododendron canescens 'Varnado Pink'- NBG03s - flowers and leaves
• Rhododendron X Exbury - 611QU01s - flowers and leaves
• Rhododendron X Exbury - 611QU03s - flowers and leaves
• Rhododendron 'Gibraltar' - LGBG01s - flowers and leaves
• Rhododendron 'Gibraltar' - SMITHCOL01s - flowers and leaves
• Rhododendron maximum (purple) - W-MA01s - habit
• Rhododendron maximum (purple) - JMU-ARB02s - flower cluster
• Rhododendron maximum (white) - LGBG01s - flowers
• Rhododendron maximum (white) - LGBG02s - flower, close-up
• Rhododendron periclymenoides - 5MI-R05s - flowers and leaves
• Rhododendron periclymenoides - 5MI-R01s - flowers and leaves
• Robinia pseudoacacia - CHESTERFIELD02s - habit (young tree)
• Robinia pseudoacacia - VAN-DUSEN-BOT-GARD01s - habit (mature tree)
• Robinia pseudoacacia 'Frisia' - VAN-DUSEN-BOT-GARD01s - habit (mature tree), yellow-leaf cultivar
• Robinia pseudoacacia - CHESTERFIELD01s - leaves and flowers
• Robinia pseudoacacia - UR01s - leaves
• Robinia pseudoacacia - UR03s - leaves
• Spiraea japonica 'Candlelight' - LGBG01s - habit
• Spiraea japonica 'Candlelight' - LGBG02s - flowers and leaves
• Spiraea japonica 'Lemon Princess' - NBG02s - flowers
• Spiraea prunifolia 'Plena' - 5238GOOCHLAND06s - habit
• Spiraea prunifolia 'Plena' - 5238GOOCHLAND02s - flowers
• Spiraea prunifolia 'Plena' - 5238GOOCHLAND04s - flowers, close-up
• Spiraea thunbergii 'Ogon' -LGBG02s - habit
• Spiraea thunbergii 'Ogon' -LGBG04s - flowers, close-up
• Spiraea thunbergii 'Tor' -JMU-ARB02s - flowers and leaves
• Spiraea x bumalda 'Dolchica' -LGBG01s - flowers and leaves
• Spiraea x bumalda 'Gold Flame' - LGBG02s - leaves
• Spiraea X vanhouttei - SMITHCOL01s - habit
• Spiraea X vanhouttei - TOWER-HILL01s - habit
• Styrax japonicus - LG01s - habit
• Styrax japonicus - LG02s - flowers
• Styrax japonicus - LG04s - flowers, viewed from below
• Styrax japonicus - LGBG01s - leaves and fruits
• Styrax japonicus 'Pendula' - LGBG04s - habit
• Styrax obassia - SMITHCOL04s - habit
• Styrax obassia - SMITHCOL02s - flowers and leaves
• Styrax obassia - SMITHCOL01s - flowers and leaves
• Styrax obassia - SMITHCOL03s - flowers
• Syringa meyeri 'Palibin' - LGBG01s - flowers and leaves
• Syringa reticulata 'Ivory Silk' - NBG01s - habit
• Syringa vulgaris 'Ludwig von Spaeth' - TOWER-HILL01s - habit
• Syringa vulgaris 'Ludwig von Spaeth' - TOWER-HILL02s - flowers
• Viburnum carlesii 'Aurora' - LGBG02s - flowers and leaves
• Viburnum carlesii - LGBG01s - flowers and flower buds
• Viburnum carlesii - RED-BUTTE-UT01s - leaves
• Viburnum carlesii - TOWER-HILL01s - leaves and young fruits
• Viburnum opulus - BLITHEWOLD01s - flowers and leaves
• Viburnum opulus - BLITHEWOLD02s - flowers and leaves
• Viburnum opulus - LGBG01s - leaves and fruits (red)
• Viburnum opulus - RED-BUTTE-UT01s - leaves and fruits (yellow)
• Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum - TOWER-HILL02s - habit
• Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum - TOWER-HILL01s - flowering branchlets
• Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum - TOWER-HILL03s - one flower cluster
• Viburnum plicatum 'Mariesii' - LGBG02s - flowering branchlets
• Viburnum plicatum 'Mariesii' - LGBG03s - leaves and fruits
• Viburnum plicatum 'Shasta' - LGBG03s - habit
• Viburnum plicatum 'Shasta' - LGBG05s - flowering branches
• Viburnum plicatum 'Shasta' - LGBG02s - flowers
• Viburnum X rhytidophylloides - LGBG02s - leaves
• Viburnum X rhytidophylloides - LGBG01s - flowers
• Viburnum utile 'Chesapeake' - LGBG01s - flowering branches
• Viburnum utile 'Eskimo' - LGBG06s - habit
• Viburnum utile 'Eskimo' - LGBG02s - flowers
• Viburnum X burkwoodii - LGBG02s - flowers and leaves
• Viburnum X burkwoodii - LGBG01s - fruits
• Viburnum X burkwoodii 'Mohawk' - NBG01s - flowers
• Viburnum x juddii - LGBG02s - habit
• Viburnum X juddii - LGBG01s - flowers
• Viburnum X pragense - LGBG01s - flowers and leaves
• Viburnum X pragense - LGBG02s - flowers and leaves
• Viburnum X pragense - LGBG03s - flowers and leaves
• Viburnum X pragense - LGBG05s - leaves
• Weigela florida - BLITHEWOLD01s - flowers and leaves
• Weigela florida - BLITHEWOLD02s - flowers
• Weigela florida - s - flowers
• Wisteria frutescens -LG03s- habit
• Wisteria frutescens 'Amethyst Falls' - LGBG08s- flower buds
• Wisteria frutescens 'Amethyst Falls' - LGBG09s - leaves and flowers
• Wisteria frutescens 'Amethyst Falls' - GREATBIGGREENHOUSE01s- leaves and flowers
• Wisteria frutescens 'Amethyst Falls' - LGBG11s - flowers close-up

Locations where photos were taken (codes embedded in photo file names):

• Blithewold Mansion, Gardens, and Arboretum, Bristol, RI
• Chesterfield Co, VA
• Goochland Co, VA
• Great Big Greenhouse and Nursery, Richmond, VA
• Hampton University, Hampton, VA
• Henrico Co, VA
• James Madison University Arboretum, Harrisonburg, VA
• Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, VA
• Longwood Gardens, Kennet Square, PA
• Madison Arboretum (Univ of Wisconsin Madison Arboretum), Madison, WI
• Millsaps College, Jackson, MI
• Mt, Vernon, VA
• Norfolk Botanical Garden, Norfolk, VA
• Portland, OR
• Presquille National Wildlife Refuge, Hopewell, VA
• Red Butte Botanical Garden, Salt Lake City, UT
• Rice House, Richmond, VA
• Richmond, Va
• Smith College, Northampton, MA
• Thanksgiving Point, UT
• Tower Hill Botanical Garden, West Boylston, MA
• University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
• US Botanical Gardens, Washington, DC
• US National Arboretum, Washington, DC
• Van Dusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, BC
• Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• Whitinsville, MA
• 5-Mile River, above Ballouville, CT
• 611 Qu, a residence in Chesterfield Co, VA
• 4760-AN, a residence in Powhatan Co. VA