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Summer Woody Plants - 2008

This page was created for students in the University of Richmond Landscape Design Program. The images are for educational purposes and not intended for commercial use. (Last update: March 2009)

• Abelia X grandiflora LGBG 03s - habit
• Abelia X grandiflora LGBG 02s - leaves and flowers
• Abelia X grandiflora LGBG 05s - flower, close-up
• Acanthopanax sieboldii BLITHEWOLD01s - flower buds in umbels and palmately compound leaves
• Acanthopanax sieboldii BLITHEWOLD02s - flower buds and leaves - close-up
• Aesculus parviflora LGBG01s - flowering racemes and palmately compound leaves
• Aesculus parviflora LGBG02s - close-up flower raceme
• Aesculus parviflora LGBG10s - habit
• Aesculus parviflora NBG01s - habit
• Ailanthus altissima UR02s - young leaves - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Ailanthus altissima UR03s - young leaf - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Ailanthus altissima JOHNSONCITY-TN02s - habit, fall color - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Ailanthus altissima PRESQUILE01s - leaves and immature fruits - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Ailanthus altissima PRESQUILE02s - immature fruits, closeup - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Ailanthus altissima - grove, winter condition - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Albizzia julibrissen LGBG02s - flowers, leaves - CAUTION: shows potential to become invasive
• Albizzia julibrissen UR02s - flowers, fruits, compound leaves (twice pinnate, and even-pinnate) - CAUTION: shows potential to become invasive
• Albizzia julibrissen UR04s - fruits, compound leaves - CAUTION: shows potential to become invasive
• Asimina triloba PNWR 01s - leaves (oblanceolate)
• Asimina triloba PNWR 04s - leaves fall
• Asimina triloba PRESQUILE07s - cluster of fruits
• Bignonia capreolata PNWR01s - leaves (opposite, each with two leaflets and tendrils)
• Bignonia capreolata 5324CHESTERFIELD04s - flowers and leaves
• Bignonia capreolata LGBG01s - red flowered cultivar
• Buddleja davidii_LGBG_02s - flowers and leaves
• Campsis radicans 01s - flowers
• Campsis radicans CITY POINT 03s - flower close-up
• Campsis radicans CITY POINT 01s - flowers, fruits
• Campsis radicans CITY POINT 02s - fruits
• Carpinus betulus SMITH COL 01s - leaves and fruiting catkin with lobed bracts
• Carpinus caroliniana LGBG 04s - leaves and fruiting catkin with lobed bracts
• Carpinus caroliniana LGBG 03s - trunk, bark
• Carpinus caroliniana PNWR 01s - fall leaves and fruiting catkin with lobed bracts
• Carya glabra LGBG 01s - compound leaves and fruits (thick-husked nuts)
• Carya ovata TOWER-HILL02s - compound leaves, flowers emerging from winter buds
• Carya sp.UR 01s - compound leaves (once-pinnate, odd pinnate)
• Castanea mollissima JMU-ARB 01s - leaves and staminate flower buds
• Castanea mollissima JMU-ARB 02s - leaves and staminate flower buds
• Castanea mollissima NBG03s - fruits (enclosed in spiny burs) and leaves
• Castanea mollissima JMU-ARB 03s - habit (young tree)
• Catalpa speciosa - leaves and fruits
• Celtis laevigata UR 01s - leaves
• Celtis occidentalis 5193 PNWR - fall leaves and fruits
• Clethra alnifolia 611 QU - leaves and flower racemes
• Clethra alnifolia E-KILLINGLY-CT01s - habit, flowering
• Clethra alnifolia cv 2s - flower racemes, pink-flowered cultivar
• Cotinus coggygria LG 01s - habit, purple-leaf cultivar
• Cotinus coggygria TGIV-PT-UT 02s - habit, flowering panicles
• Cotinus coggygria LG 02s - leaves, purple-leaf cultivar
• Cotinus coggygria MAD-ARB 01s - flowering panicles, green-leaf form
• Cotinus coggygria TGIV-PT-UT 01s - flowering panicle close-up
• Cotinus coggygria 'Golden Spirit' NBG01s - habit, young plant
• Cotinus obovatus NBG 01s - habit
• Diospyros kaki LGBG 04s - leaves and young fruits
• Diospyros kaki LGBG 03s - leaves and mature fruits
• Diospyros virginiana 4760AN 01s - leaves and flowers (staminate above and white, pistillate below, brown, senescent)
• Diospyros virginiana BELMEADS 01s - immature fruit
• Diospyros virginiana LGBG 01s - trunk with bark
• Diospyros virginiana POWHATAN-VA02s - habit, fall color
• Fagus grandifolia PWMA 01s - leaves and fruits (beech nuts)
• Fagus grandifolia UR 02s - autumn leaves
• Fagus grandifolia UR 04s - fruits (beech nuts)
• Fagus sylvatica 01s - leaves and fruit
• Fagus sylvatica 'asplenifolia' BLITHEWOLD 01s - lobed leaves
• Fagus sylvatica 'asplenifolia' W-MA 01s - staminate flowers emerging from winter buds
• Fagus sylvatica 'pendula' BLITHEWOLD 01s - habit
• Fagus sylvatica 'riversi' LGBG 02s - leaves
• Fagus sylvatica 'riversi' LGBG 04s - leaves and fruit
• Fraxinus americana TOWER-HILL 01s - early spring habit (staminate flower clusters emerging from buds)
• Fraxinus pensylvanica PNWR 02s - fruits
• Ginkgo biloba MILLSAPS 01s - habit
• Ginkgo biloba LGBG 01s - leaves
• Ginkgo biloba W-MA 02s - pollen-bearing organs (strobili)
• Ginkgo biloba MILLSAPS 03s - leaves and seeds
• Gleditsia triacanthos SMITHCOL 02s - habit
• Gleditsia triacanthos 5316PNWR08s - leaves and flower buds
• Gleditsia triacanthos 'sunburst' NBG 03s - flowers close-up
• Gleditsia triacanthos 'sunburst' NBG 02s - flowers and compound leaves (once-pinnate, even pinnate)
• Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis 'haka' LGBG 04s - immature green fruits
• Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis 'haka' LGBG 02s - immature fruits, senescing irregularly from green to brown
• Gleditsia triacanthos 'sunburst' NBG 05s - trunk with bark
• Gleditsia triacanthos 5316PNWR03s - trunk with branched thorns
• Gymnocladus dioica VATECH 01s - habit (young trees)
• Gymnocladus dioica VATECH 04s - flowers close-up
• Gymnocladus dioica VATECH 05s - huge compound leaves! (twice compound)
• Hibiscus syriacus 4760AND 01s - flower
• Hibiscus syriacus PRESQUILE01s - flower and leaves
• Hydrangea anomala ssp petiolaris NBG 03s -habit - climbing
• Hydrangea anomala ssp petiolaris NBG 01s - flowers and leaves (not the lobed ones, those are sweet gum!)
• Hydrangea anomala ssp petiolaris NBG 02s - leaves
• Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' LGBG 01s - leaves and flowers
• Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' UT 01s - flower heads, past flower stage
• Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' VIETTE 02s - habit
• Hydrangea macrophylla 'All Summer Beauty' LGBG 01s - habit
• Hydrangea macrophylla 'Blue Wave' LGBG 08s - habit, lace-cap type
• Hydrangea macrophylla 'Blue Wave' LGBG 02s - flowers, close-up, lace cap type
• Hydrangea macrophylla OR 01s - flowers, lace cap type, close-up, pink and blue
• Hydrangea macrophylla 'Lemon Wave' NBG 02s - habit, variegated
• Hydrangea macrophylla 'Variegated Mariesii' LGBG 01s - leaves
• Hydrangea macrophylla 'Nigra' NBG 02s - with black stems
• Hydrangea paniculata 'Grandiflora' LGBG_01s - leaves and flowers
• Hydrangea paniculata 'Grandiflora' LGBG_03s - habit
• Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight' LGBG 03s - habit
• Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight' LGBG 04s - close-up flower panicle
• Hydrangea quercifolia LGBG 06s - habit
• Hydrangea quercifolia LGBG 02s - leaves with flower buds
• Hydrangea quercifolia LGBG 04s - flower panicles, leaves, flower buds
• Hydrangea quercifolia NBG01s - habit
• Hydrangea quercifolia LGBG 05s - leaves with dried flower panicles
• Hydrangea quercifolia 'Sikes Dwarf' LGBG 01s - fall foliage color
• Hydrangea serrata 'Blue Billow' LGBG 03s - habit
• Hydrangea serrata 'Bluebird' LGBG 01s - lace- cap type flower umbels
• Juglans nigra APPOMATTOX CH-NP 03s - habit
• Juglans nigra APPOMATTOX CH-NP01s - compound leaves and fruits
• Juglans nigra PRESQUILE01s - leaves and fruits
• Koelreuteria paniculata LGBG 03s - habit
• Koelreuteria paniculata LGBG 04s - flowers, close-up
• Koelreuteria paniculata LGBG 01s - compound leaves and fruiting panicles
• Koelreuteria paniculata LGBG 02s - fruits
• Lagerstroemia indica LGBG07s - habit, flowering
• Lagerstroemia indica UR 01s - habit, fall color
• Lagerstroemia indica LGBG 01s - flower panicle
• Lagerstroemia indica LGBG 02s - flower, close-up
• Lagerstroemia indica LGBG 03s - trunks and bark (probably cultivar 'Natchez')
• Ligustrum lucidum LGBG 01s - leaves and fruiting panicle
• Ligustrum lucidum LGBG 02s - immature fruiting panicle
• Ligustrum lucidum - HAMPTON-U01s - habit
• Magnolia grandiflora UR 01s - habit
• Magnolia grandiflora LGBG 02s - flower
• Magnolia grandiflora LGBG 01s - immature fruit
• Magnolia macrophylla JMU-ARB 02s - habit, young tree
• Magnolia macrophylla JMU-ARB 03s - leaves
• Magnolia virginiana LGBG 08s - leaves and flower
• Magnolia virginiana LGBG 07s - flower, close-up
• Magnolia virginiana LGBG 04s - leaves and fruits
• Morus alba 'Chaparral' BLITHEWOLD 01s - leaves and flowering racemes
• Morus alba 'Chaparral' BLITHEWOLD 02s - habit -weeping
• Oxydendrum arboreum LGBG 01s - habit
• Oxydendrum arboreum TOWERHILL 01s - habit
• Oxydendrum arboreum UR 01s - immature fruiting panicles
• Photinia X fraseri UR 01s - young leaves
• Platanus occidentalis UR 01s - habit
• Platanus occidentalis CITY POINT 03s - leaves
• Platanus occidentalis LGBG 01s - winter branches
• Platanus X acerifolia LGBG04s - leaves
• Platanus X acerifolia LGBG02s - bark
• Potentilla fruticosa VIETTE 01s - habit
• Potentilla fruticosa TGIV-PT-UT 04s - white flowers
• Potentilla fruticosa UINTAS-UT- yellow flower and leaves
• Pterostyrax hispida LGBG 01s - flowering panicles
• Pterostyrax hispida LGBG 02s - flowers
• Pterostyrax hispida LGBG 03s - leaves and immature fruits
• Quercus acutissima UR 01s - acorn
• Quercus acutissima UR 02s - acorn
• Quercus alba APPOMATTOX CH-NP 01s - leaves and acorns
• Quercus alba UR 01s - leaves, fall color
• Quercus coccinea 5183 UR 02s - leaves
• Quercus coccinea 5183 UR 03s - acorns
• Quercus palustris CHIPPOKES 01s - habit
• Quercus palustris - ETSU02s - habit
• Quercus palustris CHIPPOKES 01s - leaves
• Quercus rubra LGBG 01s - habit
• Quercus rubra E-KILLINGLY-CT 02s - newly expanding leaves and pollen-bearing catkins
• Quercus rubra 5188 UR 02s - leaves and acorns
• Sambucus canadensis 4760-AN - fruits and leaves
• Schizophragma hydrangeoides NBG 01s - habit - climbing
• Schizophragma hydrangeoides PTLND-OR-CHIN 01s - flat-topped panicle, shortly after flowering
• Sophora japonica 'Regent' RED-BUTTE-UT 02s - habit
• Sophora japonica 'Regent' RED-BUTTE-UT 01s - immature fruits
• Sorbus alnifolia TOWER-HILL 01s - flowers and leaves
• Ulmus americana VATECH 01s - habit
• Ulmus americana UR 01s - leaves with stipules
• Ulmus americana UR 04s - immature fruits
• Ulmus americana LOGEE 01s - branching pattern (dead tree killed by Dutch Elm Disease)
• Ulmus parvifolia LGBG 03s - habit
• Ulmus parvifolia LGBG 02s - leaves and fruits
• Ulmus parvifolia LGBG 06s - fall fruit and leaves
• Vitex agnus-castis 'Shoal Creek' LGBG01s - leaves and flowers
• Vitex agnus-castis 'Shoal Creek' LGBG03s - flowers, closeup
• Yucca filamentosa U-WISC-MAD 02s - habit
• Yucca filamentosa VIETTE04s - flowers
• Yucca filamentosa 'Golden Sword' NBG 01s - habit
• Yucca filamentosa 'Golden Sword' LGBG 01s - close-up of leaves
• Yucca filamentosa LGBG 02s - variegated
• Yucca gloriosa 'Variegata' - NBG01s - habit
• Zelkova serrata VATECH 03s - habit
• Zelkova serrata VATECH 01s - leaves and flowers

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

• Appomattox Courthouse National Park, Appomattox, VA
• Belmeade Plantation, Powhatan, VA
• Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum, Bristol, RI
• City Point, Hopewell, VA
• Chesterfield Co., VA
• Chippokes Farm and Forestry Museum at Chippokes Plantation State Park, Surry, VA
• East Killingly, CT
• East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
• Hampton University, Hampton, VA
• James Madison University Arboretum, Harrisonburg, VA
• Johnson City, TN
• Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, VA
• Logee's Greenhouses, Dayville, CT
• Longwood Gardens, Kennet Square, PA
• Madison Arboretum (Univ of Wisconsin Madison Arboretum), Madison, WI
• Millsaps College, Jackson, MI
• Norfolk Botanical Garden, Norfolk, VA
• Oregon
• Portland, OR (Chinese Gardens)
• Powhatan Co, VA
• Presquile National Wildlife Refuge, Hopewell, VA
• Red Butte Botanical Garden, Salt Lake City, UT
• Smith College, Northampton, MA
• Thanksgiving Point, UT
• Tower Hill Botanical Garden, West Boylston, MA
• Uintas Mountains, UT
• University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
• University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
• Viette's Nursery, Fishersville, VA
• Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
• Whitinsville, MA
• 611 Qu, a residence in Chesterfield Co, VA
• 4760 An, a residence in Powhatan, VA