Every tree and shrub we grow at a glance: size, zones, sun, soil, bloom, fruit and first crop

How big does it get, where will it grow, and when does it flower? The table below answers those questions for every plant in the catalog, A to Z, from the facts each plant page prints. A name opens the page, where the facts sit with their sources, the growing guide and the photographs.

How to read the table

The figures are the ones Blue Whale Trees gives on each plant’s page, and nothing here is new. The size cell gives the form, the mature height and crown width of one plant in feet, and the coldest and warmest hardiness zones.

Sun and soil list every exposure and soil moisture the plant takes. Bloom and fruit give the months across the plant’s native range, with what ripens; a southern plant runs earlier in the far South and later in the North.

The first crop is the years from planting to the first fruit or seed, as the facts row states it, with a qualifier where the page gives one. To find a plant by one of these facts, the tree finder filters the same facts, and the growth rate table adds how fast each one grows.

Trees and shrubs, A to Z

The table holds the 199 trees and 215 shrubs we grow. A name opens the plant’s page.

Jump to a letter: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y

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The table as a file

Download the table as CSV or JSON: 414 rows, one for one tree or shrub the nursery grows, with the columns below. The figures are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence: use them with a credit to bluewhaletrees.com and a link to this page. Updated 2026-10-22.

What each column means

• slug: the plant page’s address, https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants//
• name: the common name the page uses
• botanical: the botanical name
• form: shrub, small-tree, medium-tree or large-tree, the page’s size class
• group: the shop group the plant is filed under, as its address word
• height_min_ft: the low end of the mature height the page gives, in feet
• height_max_ft: the high end of the mature height, in feet
• spread_ft: the mature crown width of one plant, in feet, as the page’s facts row gives it
• wall_ft: the distance from a wall the page’s growing guide gives, in feet
• zone_min: the coldest hardiness zone the page gives
• zone_max: the warmest hardiness zone the page gives
• sun: full, part or shade, every exposure the page gives, separated by semicolons
• moisture: dry, average or wet, every soil moisture the page gives, separated by semicolons
• traits: the trait words the page lists, such as wildlife, fall-color, edible or drought, separated by semicolons
• growth_class: slow, medium or fast, the page’s growth class
• bloom_first: the first month in flower, 1 to 12
• bloom_last: the last month in flower, 1 to 12
• fruit_first: the first month the fruit, nuts or seed ripen, 1 to 12
• fruit_last: the last month, 1 to 12
• fruit_kind: what ripens: acorns, nuts, berries, seed, cones and so on
• first_crop: the years from planting to the first crop, as the page’s facts row states them
• flowers: how the flowers are borne: monoecious, male and female flowers on one plant; dioecious, on separate plants; or perfect, each flower carrying both parts
• offered_as: what the nursery grows the plant as: saplings, and acorns, nuts or seed, separated by semicolons

How the table is made

Every column is the plant page’s own fact, read from the data files the pages are drawn from. The months are the calendar’s, the first crop the pollination planner’s and the spread the facts row’s, each from the sources the page names. The files are written from the records and checked at every release.

Cite this page

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<a href="https://bluewhaletrees.com/articles/plant-facts/">Plant facts: size, zones, sun, soil, bloom, fruit and first crop for every species</a>, Blue Whale Trees, updated October 22, 2026.

Blue Whale Trees. (2026, October 22). Plant facts: size, zones, sun, soil, bloom, fruit and first crop for every species. https://bluewhaletrees.com/articles/plant-facts/

Common questions

How tall do native trees and shrubs get?

The trees in the table mature at anything up to 125 feet, and the shrubs from 1 feet to 30. Each row gives the page’s range, low end to high end.

How long does a seed-grown tree take to bear?

The quickest in the table bear in their first year and the slowest take about 40. Most shrubs bear within a few years of planting, and most oaks and hickories take twenty years or more.

Which zone am I in?

The zone tool gives the hardiness zone for a ZIP code. A plant suits a yard when that zone falls inside the range in its row, which runs from zone 2 to zone 10 across the table.

Where do the facts come from?

Each plant page lists its sources, from the Woody Plant Seed Manual to state floras and extension pages. The table repeats the page’s figures and adds nothing.