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Summer Woody 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: July 2013)

• Abelia X grandiflora LGBG 03s - habit
• Abelia X grandiflora LGBG 02s - leaves and flowers
• Abelia X grandiflora LGBG 05s - flower, close-up
• Acanthopanax sieboldii - see Eleutherococcus sieboldianus
  
• Aesculus parviflora LGBG01s - flowering racemes and palmately compound leaves
• Aesculus parviflora LGBG02s - close-up flower raceme
• Aesculus parviflora LGBG10s - habit
• Aesculus parviflora NBG01s - habit
• Aesculus parviflora LGBG 25s - fall color
• Ailanthus altissima GOOCHLAND_CO_VA_03s - habit, leaves, fruits - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• Ailanthus altissima GOOCHLAND_CO_VA_01s - leaves and fruits - CAUTION: extremely invasive
• 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 alatissima LGBG 05s - fruits - 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 AMER-INDIAN-MUS-WASH-DC 02s - flowers
  
• 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 DUTCH GAP VA 02s - flowers and leaves
  
• Bignonia capreolata LGBG01s - red flowered cultivar
• Buddleja davidii LGBG 06s - habit
  
• 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 E-THOMPSON_CT_01s - flowers, yellow cultivar
  
• Campsis radicans CITY POINT 02s - fruits
• Carpinus betulus SMITH COL 01s - leaves and fruiting catkin with lobed bracts
• Carpinus caroliniana LGBG 05s - 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)
• Carya sp. UR 19s - fall color
  
• 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 UR 01s - leaves and flowers
  
• Catalpa speciosa - leaves and fruits
• Celtis laevigata UR 01s - leaves
• Celtis occidentalis 5193 PNWR_01s - fall leaves and fruits
  
• Clethra alnifolia 611 QU - leaves and flower racemes
• Clethra alnifolia WHITIN-RES-DOUGLAS-MA 01s - leaves and flowers
  
• 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 08s - habit
• Diospyros kaki LGBG 01s - flowers
• Diospyros kaki 'Korean' LGBG 02s - flower, close-up
  
• 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 BELMEAD 01s - immature fruit
• Diospyros virginiana 4760-AN_17s - ripe fruit
  
• Diospyros virginiana LGBG 01s - trunk with bark
• Diospyros virginiana POWHATAN-VA02s - habit, fall color
• Eleutherococcus sieboldianus BLITHEWOLD_01s - flower buds in umbels and palmately compound leaves
• Eleutherococcus sieboldianus_BLITHEWOLD_02s - flower buds and leaves - close-up
• Eleutherococcus sieboldianus_BLITHEWOLD_04s - leaves and fruits
• Eleutherococcus sieboldianus_BLITHEWOLD_05s - habit
• Eleutherococcus sieboldianus 'Variegatus' TOWER-HILL 04s - leaves, variegated cultivar
  
• 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 'Purpurea' VA-TECH 01s - dark purple leaf cultivar
• Fagus sylvatica 'Purpurea Pendula' UBC 01s - purple leaf weeping beech
  
• Fagus sylvatica 'riversi' LGBG 02s - leaves
• Fagus sylvatica 'riversi' LGBG 04s - leaves and fruit
• Fraxinus americana LG 01s - habit
  
• Fraxinus americana TOWER-HILL 01s - early spring habit (staminate flower clusters emerging from buds)
• Fraxinus pensylvanica 'Summit' LGBG_01s - habit, young tree
• Fraxinus pensylvanica DUTCH_GAP_VA_02s - leaflets and fruits, close-up
  
• Fraxinus pensylvanica PNWR 02s - fruits
  
• Ginkgo biloba MILLSAPS 01s - habit
• Ginkgo biloba USNA 03s - habit (young tree), fall color
  
• Ginkgo biloba LGBG 01s - leaves
• Ginkgo biloba W-MA 02s - pollen-bearing organs (strobili)
• Ginkgo biloba LGBG 04s - leaves and seeds
• Gleditsia triacanthos SMITHCOL 02s - habit
• Gleditsia triacanthos var inermis LG 02s - habit, allee planting
  
• 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)
• Gymnocladus dioica - LG 02s - leaves and fruits
  
• 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 arborescens 'Invincibelle Spirit' LGBG 01s - habit
• Hydrangea arborescens 'Invincibelle Spirit' LGBG 03s - flowers
  
• 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 'Lemon Wave' NBG 01s - variegated leaves
  
• Hydrangea macrophylla 'Variegata 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 clusters
• Juglans nigra APPOMATTOX CH-NP 03s - habit
• Juglans nigra LITTLE_RIVER_PARK_HANOVER_CO_01s - habit in forest
  
• Juglans nigra IVY_CREK_C'VILLE-VA_02s - supernumerary lateral buds
  
• 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
• Lespedeza thunbergii 'Alba' LGBG 04s - habit
• Lespedeza thunbergii 'Alba' LGBG 02s - leaves and flowers
• Lespedeza thunbergii 'Alba' LGBG 05s - leaves, flowers, and fruits
• Lespedeza thunbergii 'Edo-Shibori' LGBG 01s -leaves and flowers
  
• 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 japonicum HAMPTON-U 01s - habit (pruned)
  
• Ligustrum japonicum HENRICO-CO 02s - habit (not pruned)
  
• Ligustrum japonicum HENRICO-CO 04s - leaves and flowers
• Ligustrum japonicum LGBG 01s - leaves and fruits
• Ligustrum japonicum 'Jack Frost' NBG 03s - variegated leaves
  
• Ligustrum lucidum RICHMOND-VA 01s - habit
  
• Ligustrum lucidum RICHMOND-VA 02s - habit
  
• Ligustrum lucidum RICHMOND-VA 04s - flowers
• Ligustrum lucidum LGBG 02s - immature fruits
  
• Ligustrum sinense 4760-AN 01s - leaf and flowers
  
• Ligustrum sinense PNWR 01s - leaves and fruits
  
• 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 macrophylla LGBG 03s - leaves and immature fruit
  
• 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
• Morus alba LGBG 08s - leaves and fruits
• Morus alba PIEDMONT-VA-CC 01s - habit, fall color
  
• Osmanthus heterophyllus UR01s - habit
• Osmanthus heterophyllus LGBG03s - juvenile foliage
• Osmanthus heterophyllus LGBG04s - juvenile foliage
• Osmanthus heterophyllus UR03s - leaves (adult) and flowers
• Osmanthus heterophyllus LGBG02s - leaves (adult) and flowers
• Osmanthus heterophyllus LGBG 10s - flowers, close-up
  
• Osmanthus heterophyllus LGBG05s - fruits
• Osmanthus heterophyllus NBG02s - fruits
• Osmanthus heterophyllus 'Goshiki' LGBG01s - variegated foliage
• 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 NBG 02s - habit
  
• Platanus occidentalis CITY POINT 03s - leaves
• Platanus occidentalis LGBG 01s - winter branches
• Platanus x acerifolia LGBG 05s - habit
  
• Platanus x acerifolia LGBG04s - leaves
• Platanus x acerifolia 'Columbia' LGBG 04s - leaf and flower clusters
  
• Platanus x acerifolia LGBG02s - bark
• Potentilla fruticosa VIETTE 01s - habit
• Potentilla fruticosa TGIV-PT-UT 04s - white flowers
• Potentilla fruticosa UINTAS-UT_01s - yellow flower
• Potentilla fruticosa UINTAS-UT_03s - yellow flower and leaves
• Prunus serotina - 1s - leaves and flowers
• Prunus serotina - 3s - flowers
• Pterostyrax hispida LGBG 01s - flowering panicles
• Pterostyrax hispida LGBG 02s - flowers
• Pterostyrax hispida LGBG 03s - leaves and immature fruits
• Quercus acutissima LGBG 03s - leaves
  
• Quercus acutissima UR 01s - acorn
• Quercus acutissima UR 02s - acorn
• Quercus alba USNA 01s - habit, fall color
  
• Quercus alba ASH-LAWN-ALBEMARLE-CO-VA 03s - habit in winter
  
• Quercus alba APPOMATTOX CH-NP 01s - leaves and acorns
• Quercus alba UR 01s - leaves, fall color
• Quercus coccinea USNA 01s - habit, 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 02s - leaves
• Quercus palustris SWEET-BRIAR-COL 02s - leaves and acorns
• Quercus phellos (with Pistacia chinensis in foreground) UR 01s - habit
• Quercus phellos LGBG_03s - leaves and acorns
  
• Quercus rubra LGBG 01s - habit
• Quercus rubra MT-VERNON 01s - habit
• Quercus rubra UR 01s - habit, fall color
  
• Quercus rubra E-KILLINGLY-CT 02s - newly expanding leaves and pollen-bearing catkins
• Quercus rubra 5188 UR 02s - leaves and acorns
• Quercus velutina UR 01s - leaves and acorns
  
• Sambucus canadensis LD129-LITTLE-RIVER-PARK-HANOVER 01s - leaves and flowers
  
• Sambucus canadensis 4760-AN_01s - fruits and leaves
• Schizophragma hydrangeoides NBG 01s - habit - climbing
• Schizophragma hydrangeoides PTLND-OR-CHIN 01s - flat-topped panicle, shortly after flowering
• Sophora japonica - see Styphnolobium japonicum
  
• Sorbus alnifolia TOWER-HILL 01s - flowers and leaves
• Stewartia gemma LGBG 03s - leaves and flower
  
• Stewartia monadelpha - USNA01s - habit
• Stewartia monadelpha -USNA02s - bark
  
• Stewartia pseudocamelia - LGBG 01s - leaves and flowers
• Stewartia pseudocamelia - LGBG 03s - leaves and flowers
• Stewartia pseudocamelia - UBC 01s - leaves and flowers
• Stewartia pseudocamelia - UBC 03s - trunk with exfoliating bark
• Stewartia sinensis - LGBG 01s - habit, fall color
• Stewartia sinensis - LGBG 05s - habit, fall color
• Styphnolobium japonicum 'Regent' RED-BUTTE-UT 02s - habit
• Styphnolobium japonicum 'Pendula' - BLITHEWOLD_01s -  habit, weeping cultivar
  
• Styphnolobium japonicum LGBG 08s - flowers
• Styphnolobium japonicum 'Regent' RED-BUTTE-UT 01s - immature fruits
• 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 UR_02s - habit, fall color
  
• Ulmus parvifolia NBG 07s - trunk, patterned bark
  
• Ulmus parvifolia LGBG 02s - leaves and fruits
• Ulmus parvifolia LGBG 06s - fall fruit and leaves
• Vitex agnus-castis LGBG 09s - leaves and flowers
  
• 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):

• American Indian Museum, Washington DC
  
• Appomattox Courthouse National Park, Appomattox, VA
• Ash Lawn, Albemarle Co, VA
  
• Belmead 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
• Dutch Gap Conservation Area, Chesterfield County, VA
  
• East Killingly, CT
• East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
• Hampton University, Hampton, VA
• Henrico Co, VA
• Ivy Creek Natural Area, Charlottesville, VA
  
• James Madison University Arboretum, Harrisonburg, VA
• Johnson City, TN
• Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, VA
• Little River Park, Hanover Co., VA
  
• Logee's Greenhouses, Dayville, CT
• 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
• Oregon
• Piedmont Virginia Community College, Albemarle Co, VA
  
• Portland, OR (Chinese Gardens)
• Powhatan Co, VA
• Presquile National Wildlife Refuge, Hopewell, VA
• Red Butte Botanical Garden, Salt Lake City, UT
• Richmond, VA
  
• Smith College, Northampton, MA
• Thanksgiving Point, UT
• Tower Hill Botanical Garden, West Boylston, MA
• United States National Arboretum, Washington, DC
  
• Uintas Mountains, UT
• University of British Columbia
  
• 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