Kenosha County Center – Prairie & Arboretum
Prairie & Arboretum Map (PDF Download)
Code No | Common Name | Scientific Name | Zone of cold hardiness | Height | Width | Features |
1 | Turkish Filbert | Corylus colurna | 4 | 40-50′ | 15-30′ |
Broad pyramidal growth habit, exfoliating bark, tolerate urban conditions
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2 | Chastity Pear | Pyrus x triploida‘NCPX2’ | 5 | 35′ | 25′ |
pyramidal growth habit with profuse white flowers in spring and doesn’t produce any fruits, red to purple fall color
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3 | Early Glow Buckeye | Aesculus glabra‘JN select’ | 4 | 35′ | 35′ |
Scorch resistant foliage with early bright red fall color
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4 | State Street Miyabei Maple | Acer miyabei‘Morton’ | 4 | 50′ | 40′ |
Tolerate urban condition, upright oval form with good branching structure
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4 | American Yellowwood | Cladrastis kentukea | 4 | 30-50′ | 40-55′ |
Smooth grey bark, pendulous fragrant white flowers, yellow fall color
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5 | Worplesdon Sweetgum | Liquidambar styraciflua‘Worplesdon’ | 5 | 40-45′ | 25-30′ |
Excellent fall color from orange to purple, broadly pyramidal to oval growth habit, produces very less spiny fruits than other cultivars and doesn’t have corky bark
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5 | Eye Stopper Cork Tree | Phellodendron lavallei‘Longenecker’ | 4 | 45′ | 50′ |
Male cork tree, with yellow fall color, upright spreading habit
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6 | Fall Fiesta Sugar Maple | Acer saccharum‘Bailsta’ | 4 | 50′ | 40′ |
Best sugar maple cultivar for urban landscape, excellent red fall color
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7 | Sienna Glen Maple | Acer x freemanii‘Sienna’ | 3 | 40-50′ | 35-40′ |
Pyramidal form with strong central leader, red-burgandy fall color
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8 | Swamp bicolor Oak | Quercus bicolor | 4 | 75′ | 65′ |
Tolerates dry and wet conditions, upright oval form, exfoliating branches, lower surface leaves are leathery and silvery white in color
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9 | Sterling Silver Linden | Tilia tomentosa‘Sterling’ | 4 | 40-50′ | 20-30′ |
Broad pyramidal growth habit, lower surface of the leaves are silver white in color, fragrant blossoms that are magnet to bees
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10 | Dawn Redwood | Metasequoia glyptostroboides | 5 | 70-100′ | 25′ |
Fast growing, decidious evergreen with feathery foliage, coppery brown fall color foliage, tolerates wet and dry soil
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11 | Debonair Pond Cypress | Taxodium ascendens‘Morris’ | 5 | 60′ | 20′ |
Pendulous, thread like green needles that turns coppery brown in fall, tolerates wet and dry condition
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12 | Exclamation! London Planetree | Platanus x acerfolia ‘Morton Circle’ | 4 | 60′ | 45′ |
Fast growing, strong central leader with upright spreading, , exfoliating colorful bark, resistance to anthracnose, tolerates urban conditions, hardier than Bloodgood cultivar
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14 | Shawnee Brave Bald Cypress | Taxodium distichum‘Mickelson’ | 4 | 50′ | 15-20′ |
Deciduous conifer, with pyramidal growth habit, tolerates urban conditions, fine textured needles, reddish brown needles in fall, bark exfoliates in stripes
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15 | Black Gum | Nyssa sylvatica | 4 | 30-50′ | 20′-30′ |
Brilliant fall color from yellow, organge and maroon, prefers moist, acid soil
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16 | Baumann Horse Chestnut | Aesculus hippocastanum‘Baumannii’ | 4 | 40′ | 40′ |
Double white flowers, fruitless, taller and narrow growth habit
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17 | Princeton Elm | Ulmus americana‘Princeton’ | 3 | 60-80′ | 40-60′ |
Broad upright growth habit, large dark green leaves, yellow fall color, tolerates urban conditions and highly resistant to dutch elm disease
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18 | Skyline Honeylocust | Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis ‘Skycole’ | 3 | 50-60′ | 35-45′ |
Good central leader with upright spreading branches, tolerates urban conditions
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19 | Gold Select Catalpa | Catalpa speciosa ’Gold Select’ | 5 | 30′ | 20′ |
Attractive heart shaped, yellow foliage with emerging leaves have coppery red tinge color
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20 | Chicagoland Hackberry | Celtis occidentalis‘Chicagoland’ | 2 | 40′ | 50′ |
Strong central leader with upright growth, tolerate urban condition
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21 | Firespire Musclewood | Carpinus caroliniana ‘J.N. Upright’ | 3 | 20′ | 10′ |
Narrow upright habit, bright orange -red fall color, tolerate sun and shade
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22 | Starburst Amur Maackia | Maackia amurensis‘Starburst’ | 4 | 25′ | 20′ |
Emerging leaves are silvery white, mature bark turns copper brown, white pendulous flowers around mid summer, tolerant to soil conditions
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23 | Black Hills Spruce | Picea glauca‘Densata’ | 2 | 20-40′ | 15-25′ |
Slow growing, dense, compact habit, provides excellent winter cover for wildlife, suitable for screening or wind break
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24 | Espresso Kentucky Coffee Tree | Gymnocladus dioicus‘Espresso’ | 4 | 50′ | 35′ |
Male cultivar, upright oval growth habit, tolerates urban conditions, better growth rate
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25 | Schuette Oak | Quercus x schuettei | 3 | 75′ | 70′ |
Hybrid of swamp white and bur oak, easy to transplant, vigorous in growth, tolerates urban conditions
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26 | Moraine Sweetgum | Liquidambar styraciflua‘Moraine’ | 5 | 40-45′ | 25-30′ |
Star shaped glossy dark green leaves with brilliant reddish maroon fall color, better cold hardy, develops chlorosis in high pH soil, prefers moist soil, produces spiny fruit
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27 | Chinkapin Oak | Quercus muehlenbergii | 4 | 75′ | 75′ |
Native to Wisconsin, prefers alkaline soil, tolerates urban conditions, wildlife are attracted to its acorn
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29 | European Beech | Fagus sylvatica | 5 | 50-60′ | 35-45′ |
Smooth grey bark, glossy dark green leaves, golden bronze fall color, slow growing, better tolerant to soil conditions than american beech
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30 | Concolor Fir | Abies concolor | 4 | 30-50′ | 15-30′ |
Soft, blue green needles, alternative to blue spruce
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31 | Prairie Sentinel Hackberry | Celtis occidentalis‘JFS-KSU1’ | 4 | 45′ | 12′ |
Columnar growth habit, tolerate urban condition
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32 | Triumph Elm | Ulmus ‘Morton Glossy’ | 4 | 55′ | 45′ |
Upright oval, with good branching structure, excellent drought tolerant, glossy, dark green foliage
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33 | Regal Prince Oak | Quercus x warei‘Long’ | 4 | 45′ | 18′ |
Columnar growth habit, vigorous in growth
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34 | Tulip Tree | Liriodendron tulipifera | 4 | 80′ | 45′ |
Greenish yellow tulip like flowers with orange interior, upright, pyramidal growth habit
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35 | Accolade Elm | Ulmus ‘Morton’ Accolade | 4 | 70′ | 40-50′ |
Arching branches with vase shaped growth habit, yellow fall color and good resistance to dutch elm disease
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36 | White Spruce | Picea glauca | 2 | 40-60′ | 10-20′ |
Broadly pyramidal, pale green to glaucous green, aromatic needles, prefers well drained soil, tolerates heat, drought conditions
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37 | Emerald Spire Flowering Crabapple | Malus x adstringens‘Jefgreen’ | 15′ | 6′ |
Columnar growth habit, dark green to purple leaves, pink flowers
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38 | Fringetree | Chionanthus virginicus | 4 | 12-20′ | 12-20′ |
large shurb with fleecy white flowers in summer, tolearates alkaline soil, female plants produce blue fruits
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39 | American Hophornbeam | Ostrya virginiana | 3 | 25′ | 15′ |
Upright pyramidal growth habit, fruits enclosed in a hops like bracts, sensitive to salt
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40 | Bladdernut | Staphylea trifolia | 4 | 10-15′ | 8-12′ |
large shrub with upright spreading growth habit, white bell shaped flower in spring that produces inflated capsule that rattles in fall
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41 | Pink Flair Cherry | Prunus sargentii‘JFS-KW58’ | 4 | 25′ | 15′ |
Upright vase shaped form, blooms little later than other cultivars in spring, maroon bark color
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42 | Javelin Pear | Pyrus ‘NCPX1’ | 5 | 35′ | 10′ |
Columnar pear tree with pink buds that turns to white flowers, may produce fruits, red fall color, fireblight resistant
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43 | Princeton Sentry Ginkgo | Ginkgo biloba‘Princeton Sentry’ | 4 | 40′ | 15′ |
Narrow pyramidal growth habit with bright yellow fall color, fruitless
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44 | Adirondack Crabapple | Malus‘Adirondack’ | 4 | 20′ | 12′ |
Dense upright branches, white flowers, persistent orange red fruits till mid winter, excellent scab resistant
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45 | Snowdance Japanese Tree lilac | Syringa reticulata | 4 | 18′ | 20′ |
Heavy blooming tree with creamy white flowers, sterlie seeds
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48 | Three-Flower Maple | Acer triflorum | 4 | 20-30′ | 20-30′ |
Exfoliating bark, trifoliate leaves, excellent fall color
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49 | Franklin Tree | Franklinia alatamaha | 6 | 10-20′ | 6-15′ |
Fragrant, creamy white flowers with yellow stamens, blooms in late summer, orange to red fall color
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50 | Hardy Rubber Tree | Eucommia ulmoides | 5 | 40-60′ | 30-50′ |
Broadly spreading growth habit, with dark green glossy leaves that exudes latex, tolerant to urban conditions
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51 | Snowcone Japanese Snowbell | Styrax japonicus‘JFS-D’ | 5 | 25′ | 20′ |
bell shaped creamy white flowers in early summer, small size tree for part shaded area
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52 | Golden Glory Cornelian Cherry Dogwood | Cornus mas‘Golden Glory’ | 4 | 20-25′ | 15′ |
large shrub with upright growth habit, bright yellow flowers in early spring, edible bright red cherry like fruit, purple fall color
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53 | European Tricolor Beech | Fagus sylvatica‘Tricolor’ | 5 | 40′ | 20-30′ |
Purple leaf with rosy pink border, prefers moist, part shade
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54 | Chinese Kousa Dogwood | Cornus kousa | 5 | 20-30′ | 20-30′ |
Creamy white flowers with four long pointed bracts, multicolored mosaic pattern on trunk, deep red fall color, prefers partial shade
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55 | Sunburt Magnolia | Magnolia‘Sunburst’ | 5 | 30′ | 20′ |
Pyramidal upright, fragrant yellow flowers, relatively fast growing
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56 | Seven Son Flower | Heptacodium miconioides | 5 | 15-20′ | 8-15′ |
Exfoliating bark, white fragrant flowers in fall and its sepals turn pink in mid to late fall
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58 | Rose Marie Magnolia | Magnolia ‘Rose Marie’ | 5 | 10-12′ | 8′ |
Late blooming, rosy pink color, blooms last longer than others
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59 | Katsura Tree | Cercidiphyllum japonicum | 4 | 40-60′ | 20-35′ |
Heart shaped leaves with yellow fall color, requires moist, rich soil.
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60 | Bloodgood London Planetree | Platanus x acerifolia‘Bloodgood’ | 4 | 50′ | 30′ | Fast growing, upright spreading, exfoliating colorful bark, leaves resembles like maples, anthracnose resistance, tolerates urban conditions |