# Tree finder

> Find the right native tree or shrub for your site: filter by USDA hardiness zone, mature size, sun, soil moisture, and what you want from each species.

Blue Whale Trees, a native tree nursery in the United States. Web version: https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/tree-finder/?height=60

Find the right native tree or shrub for your site by filtering on USDA hardiness zone, mature size, sun, soil moisture and what you want from each species. The list narrows as you set each filter. Every result is a tree or shrub we grow from seed, so anything it shows can be requested now and ordered once it is priced.

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Without JavaScript the list here does not follow the form: it is the list for the choices in the address, or the finder's own example. The [shop](https://bluewhaletrees.com/shop/index.html.md) lists the same trees and shrubs with its own filters and works without it. Set your choices below and press "Show these in the shop".

305 of our 364 trees and shrubs match

Matching: Up to 60 ft.

- [Alabama Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/alabama-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron alabamense*): Shrub, Zones 6–9, 4–6 ft, Price on request. White flowers with a lemon-yellow blotch and a lemon scent in April and May, on what may be the most fragrant of the wild azaleas.
- [Alabama Croton](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/alabama-croton/index.html.md) (*Croton alabamensis*): Shrub, Zones 6–8, 5–10 ft, Price on request. One of the rarest shrubs in the country, its apple-scented leaves silver beneath and its oldest leaves pumpkin orange in fall.
- [Alabama Snow-wreath](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/alabama-snow-wreath/index.html.md) (*Neviusia alabamensis*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 3–10 ft, Price on request. A rare southern shrub whose arching stems carry puffs of white flowers with no petals in spring, for a shady border or woodland edge.
- [Alderleaf Buckthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/alderleaf-buckthorn/index.html.md) (*Rhamnus alnifolia*): Shrub, Zones 3–7, 2–5 ft, Price on request. A low native buckthorn of fens, swamps and wet thickets, with alder-like leaves and black fruit for birds, at home in cold, limy wetlands.
- [Allegheny Chinquapin](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/allegheny-chinquapin/index.html.md) (*Castanea pumila*): Small tree, Zones 5–9, 10–25 ft, Price on request. A shrubby native cousin of the American chestnut, Allegheny chinquapin ripens one sweet nut per small bur and bears within a few years of planting.
- [Allegheny Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/allegheny-plum/index.html.md) (*Prunus alleghaniensis*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 3–20 ft, Price on request. A rare thicket plum of the Appalachians, with white flowers that fade to pink and small dark purple plums under a blue bloom.
- [Allegheny Serviceberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/allegheny-serviceberry/index.html.md) (*Amelanchier laevis*): Small tree, Zones 4–8, 15–25 ft, Price on request. Bronze-purple new leaves under white flowers, and the sweetest fruit of the serviceberries.
- [American Beautyberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-beautyberry/index.html.md) (*Callicarpa americana*): Shrub, Zones 6–10, 3–6 ft, Price on request. Glossy violet berries ring every stem in fall and feed mockingbirds and thrushes into winter. A fast, easy native shrub for sun or light shade.
- [American Chestnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-chestnut/index.html.md) (*Castanea dentata*): Small tree, Zones 4–8, 15–30 ft, Price on request. Once a dominant tree of the eastern forests, with sweet nuts for people and wildlife, now held to sprouts by a blight that kills its stems but not its roots.
- [American Crabapple](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-crabapple/index.html.md) (*Malus coronaria*): Small tree, Zones 4–8, 15–30 ft, Price on request. Fragrant pink-white blossoms in May and hard green fruit that makes exceptional jelly.
- [American Fly Honeysuckle](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-fly-honeysuckle/index.html.md) (*Lonicera canadensis*): Shrub, Zones 3–7, 3–6 ft, Price on request. A native woodland honeysuckle of moist northern and mountain forests, with yellow flowers in pairs and twin red berries for birds.
- [American Hazelnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-hazelnut/index.html.md) (*Corylus americana*): Shrub, Zones 4–9, 8–12 ft, Price on request. Sweet native filberts in late summer on a dense, easy hedgerow shrub.
- [American Holly, select line](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-holly/index.html.md) (*Ilex opaca*): Medium tree, Zones 5–9, 20–50 ft, Price on request. Broadleaf evergreen screening and winter berries, from a specimen chosen for dense foliage and heavy fruit.
- [American Hornbeam (Musclewood)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-hornbeam/index.html.md) (*Carpinus caroliniana*): Small tree, Zones 3–9, 20–35 ft, Price on request. Smooth, sinewy gray trunks, orange-red fall color and complete comfort in shade and damp soil.
- [American Mountain Ash](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-mountain-ash/index.html.md) (*Sorbus americana*): Small tree, Zones 2–7, 15–30 ft, Price on request. Flat white flower clusters, orange-red berries and brilliant fall color for cold, cool-summer regions.
- [American Persimmon](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-persimmon/index.html.md) (*Diospyros virginiana*): Medium tree, Zones 4–9, 35–60 ft, Price on request. Sweet orange fruit after frost, blocky alligator bark and a tree that grows nearly anywhere.
- [American Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-plum/index.html.md) (*Prunus americana*): Small tree, Zones 3–8, 15–25 ft, Price on request. A thicket-forming wild plum for dry banks and wet ground alike, with fragrant white spring bloom and tart red-yellow fruit for jelly and wildlife.
- [American Smoketree](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-smoketree/index.html.md) (*Cotinus obovatus*): Small tree, Zones 4–8, 20–30 ft, Price on request. Perhaps the best fall color of any native tree, on a small, drought-proof limestone specialist.
- [American Snowbell](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-snowbell/index.html.md) (*Styrax americanus*): Shrub, Zones 6–10, 6–15 ft, Price on request. Fragrant white bells with swept-back petals cover a slender native shrub in spring, for wet woods, pond edges and shady, acid ground.
- [Arkansas Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/arkansas-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus arkansana*): Medium tree, Zones 5–9, 20–60 ft, Price on request. A rare red oak of the Gulf Coastal Plain, a slender tree with broad, round-tipped leaves, and one that Florida lists as threatened.
- [Arrowwood Viburnum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/arrowwood-viburnum/index.html.md) (*Viburnum dentatum*): Shrub, Zones 2–8, 5–10 ft, Price on request. Blue-black berries nearly half fat by dry weight ripen from August for robins, bluebirds and catbirds, after flat white flower heads in May for the bees.
- [Ashe's Magnolia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/ashe-magnolia/index.html.md) (*Magnolia ashei*): Small tree, Zones 5–9, 10–30 ft, Price on request. Fragrant white flowers up to a foot across and leaves up to 2 feet long, on a small, rare magnolia from the Florida panhandle.
- [Atlantic White Cedar](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/atlantic-white-cedar/index.html.md) (*Chamaecyparis thyoides*): Medium tree, Zones 3–9, 40–60 ft, Price on request. The only false cypress native to the eastern states, a narrow blue-green evergreen of coastal bogs that makes a year-round screen on wet, acid ground.
- [Bartram's Serviceberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bartram-serviceberry/index.html.md) (*Amelanchier bartramiana*): Shrub, Zones 2–7, 2–8 ft, Price on request. The most northern of the eastern serviceberries, a low shrub of cool bogs and mountain woods with white flowers and pear-shaped purple fruit.
- [Beach Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/beach-plum/index.html.md) (*Prunus maritima*): Shrub, Zones 3–8, 4–8 ft, Price on request. The dune plum of the Atlantic coast: salt-proof, drought-proof and covered in white bloom each May.
- [Beaked Hazelnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/beaked-hazelnut/index.html.md) (*Corylus cornuta*): Shrub, Zones 3–8, 4–10 ft, Price on request. A small, suckering native hazel of northern and mountain woods, whose tasty nuts ripen inside bristly husks drawn out into a long beak.
- [Bear Huckleberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bear-huckleberry/index.html.md) (*Gaylussacia ursina*): Shrub, Zones 7–8, 1–5 ft, Price on request. A colony-forming huckleberry of southern Appalachian oak and pine woods, with greenish bells in May, glossy black berries and fall color.
- [Bear Oak (Scrub Oak)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bear-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus ilicifolia*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 6–20 ft, Price on request. The scrub oak of pine barrens and ridgetops: tough, fire-adapted and a powerhouse host for moths and butterflies.
- [Bigleaf Magnolia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bigleaf-magnolia/index.html.md) (*Magnolia macrophylla*): Medium tree, Zones 5–9, 30–40 ft, Price on request. The largest simple leaves and flowers of any tree native to North America, with leaves up to 3 feet long and fragrant white flowers up to 14 inches across.
- [Bigleaf Snowbell](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bigleaf-snowbell/index.html.md) (*Styrax grandifolius*): Shrub, Zones 6–9, 8–20 ft, Price on request. Leaves up to 8 inches long and sprays of fragrant white bells in April and May, on a native shrub for shady, well-drained woods.
- [Bigleaf Witch Hazel](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bigleaf-witch-hazel/index.html.md) (*Hamamelis ovalis*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 8–16 ft, Price on request. Wine-red, scarlet or rose flowers from late December into February, on a colony-forming witch hazel with the largest leaves of any, first described in 2006.
- [Black Chokeberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-chokeberry/index.html.md) (*Aronia melanocarpa*): Shrub, Zones 3–8, 3–6 ft, Price on request. White spring flowers, glossy black antioxidant-rich berries and some of the best red fall color of any shrub.
- [Black Elderberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-elderberry/index.html.md) (*Sambucus canadensis*): Shrub, Zones 3–9, 6–12 ft, Price on request. Broad white flower plates in June, purple-black berries in August, and a magnet for dozens of bird species.
- [Black Huckleberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-huckleberry/index.html.md) (*Gaylussacia baccata*): Shrub, Zones 3–7, 1–3 ft, Price on request. A low, colony-forming shrub of dry acid woods with sweet, seedy black berries and crimson fall leaves.
- [Blackhaw Viburnum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/blackhaw/index.html.md) (*Viburnum prunifolium*): Shrub, Zones 3–9, 12–15 ft, Price on request. A tough, tree-like viburnum with white spring flowers, purple-red fall color and sweet blue fruit.
- [Blackjack Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/blackjack-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus marilandica*): Small tree, Zones 6–9, 20–40 ft, Price on request. A tough red oak for poor, dry sand and clay, with leathery, bell-shaped leaves and near-black bark broken into blocks like alligator hide.
- [Bladdernut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bladdernut/index.html.md) (*Staphylea trifolia*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 8–15 ft, Price on request. Drooping white bell flowers in May and papery inflated seed pods that rattle in the fall wind.
- [Blue Ridge St. John's-wort](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/blue-ridge-st-johns-wort/index.html.md) (*Hypericum buckleyi*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 1–2 ft, Price on request. A low mat of small leaves and inch-wide golden flowers for a sunny rock garden, from the high peaks of the southern Blue Ridge.
- [Blueberry Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/blueberry-hawthorn/index.html.md) (*Crataegus brachyacantha*): Small tree, Zones 4–9, 20–50 ft, Price on request. A tall southern hawthorn whose fruit wears a waxy blue bloom in late summer, with white spring flowers and brilliant orange and red fall color.
- [Bluejack Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bluejack-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus incana*): Small tree, Zones 6–9, 20–40 ft, Price on request. A small red oak of southern sandhills with narrow blue-green leaves, gray-felted beneath, that often hang on into winter.
- [Bluff Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bluff-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus austrina*): Medium tree, Zones 5–9, 40–60 ft, Price on request. A southern white oak of river bluffs and bottomland edges that grows into a straight-trunked shade tree, and one most nurseries still do not carry.
- [Bog Spicebush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bog-spicebush/index.html.md) (*Lindera subcoriacea*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 6–13 ft, Price on request. A rare spicebush of southern seepage bogs, with thick leaves, pale yellow flowers before the leaves and bright red fruit on female plants.
- [Bottlebrush Buckeye](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bottlebrush-buckeye/index.html.md) (*Aesculus parviflora*): Shrub, Zones 4–9, 8–12 ft, Price on request. A shade shrub that spreads into a broad mound and lifts white flower spikes up to a foot long in early summer, when few other shrubs bloom.
- [Box Huckleberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/box-huckleberry/index.html.md) (*Gaylussacia brachycera*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 1–2 ft, Price on request. A foot-high evergreen ground cover with glossy leaves, pink-white bells in May and sweet blue berries, from a shrub whose wild patches live for centuries.
- [Boynton Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/boynton-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus boyntonii*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 6–20 ft, Price on request. A critically endangered white oak that stays low and shrubby, spreading from underground stems into colonies on sandstone and deep sand.
- [Bracted Arrowwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bracted-arrowwood/index.html.md) (*Viburnum bracteatum*): Shrub, Zones 6–8, 6–10 ft, Price on request. A rare arrowwood of southern limestone bluffs, with flat clusters of white flowers in spring and oval blue-black fruit for birds.
- [Bristly Locust (Rose Locust)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/rose-locust/index.html.md) (*Robinia hispida*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 3–8 ft, Price on request. Rose-pink wisteria-like flowers in May on a suckering, nitrogen-fixing shrub for dry banks.
- [Broom Crowberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/broom-crowberry/index.html.md) (*Corema conradii*): Shrub, Zones 5–7, 1–2 ft, Price on request. A low evergreen heath of sand barrens and rocky summits, with needle-fine leaves and tufts of purple flowers at the shoot tips in spring.
- [Buckthorn Bully](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/buckthorn-bully/index.html.md) (*Sideroxylon lycioides*): Small tree, Zones 7–9, 10–45 ft, Price on request. A thorny small tree of stream banks and limestone bluffs, with clusters of tiny white flowers in summer and black fruit that birds and squirrels eat.
- [Buckwheat Tree](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/buckwheat-tree/index.html.md) (*Cliftonia monophylla*): Small tree, Zones 7–10, 12–18 ft, Price on request. An evergreen of southern bogs whose fragrant spring flowers feed honeybees, followed by winged fruits shaped like buckwheat grains.
- [Butternut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/butternut/index.html.md) (*Juglans cinerea*): Medium tree, Zones 3–7, 40–60 ft, Price on request. The native white walnut, with sweet, oily nuts and ash-gray bark, now dying across its range from butternut canker.
- [Buttonbush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/buttonbush/index.html.md) (*Cephalanthus occidentalis*): Shrub, Zones 4–10, 5–12 ft, Price on request. A wetland shrub for pond edges and rain gardens, with round white pincushion flowers in summer that draw bees, butterflies and hummingbirds.
- [Canada Buffaloberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/canada-buffaloberry/index.html.md) (*Shepherdia canadensis*): Shrub, Zones 2–8, 3–8 ft, Price on request. A slow, thornless northern shrub that fixes its own nitrogen, with silvery, rust-flecked leaves and bitter red berries that bears and birds eat.
- [Canada Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/canada-plum/index.html.md) (*Prunus nigra*): Small tree, Zones 2–6, 10–30 ft, Price on request. The northernmost native plum, a hardy small tree with fragrant white flowers that blush pink as they age and red to yellow plums for jam.
- [Canada Yew](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/canada-yew/index.html.md) (*Taxus canadensis*): Shrub, Zones 2–7, 3–6 ft, Price on request. A low, sprawling evergreen for deep shade whose branches root as they spread, with bright red, berry-like fruit that birds eat.
- [Carolina Bog Laurel](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/carolina-bog-laurel/index.html.md) (*Kalmia carolina*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 1–5 ft, Price on request. Clusters of small pink cups ringed in red in April and May, on a low evergreen laurel of Southern bogs and wet pine savannas.
- [Carolina Buckthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/carolina-buckthorn/index.html.md) (*Frangula caroliniana*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 10–20 ft, Price on request. Glossy leaves, red-to-black berries and yellow fall color on a native buckthorn that is nothing like the invasive ones.
- [Carolina Hemlock](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/carolina-hemlock/index.html.md) (*Tsuga caroliniana*): Medium tree, Zones 6–7, 40–60 ft, Price on request. A rare hemlock of Appalachian cliffs, its glossy dark needles set all around each twig like a bottlebrush, for shade and cool, moist soil.
- [Carolina Laurelcherry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/carolina-laurelcherry/index.html.md) (*Prunus caroliniana*): Small tree, Zones 7–10, 15–40 ft, Price on request. A fast native evergreen for screens and hedges, with glossy leaves, fragrant late-winter flowers and black fruit for birds.
- [Carolina Silverbell](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/carolina-silverbell/index.html.md) (*Halesia tetraptera*): Medium tree, Zones 4–8, 30–40 ft, Price on request. Rows of white bell flowers hang beneath the branches in April on this graceful Appalachian understory tree.
- [Catawba Rhododendron](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/catawba-rhododendron/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron catawbiense*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 6–10 ft, Price on request. Lilac-purple trusses of 15 to 20 flowers open in late spring on an evergreen shrub of Appalachian ridges, parent of the hardy garden rhododendrons.
- [Catberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/catberry/index.html.md) (*Ilex mucronata*): Shrub, Zones 3–7, 3–10 ft, Price on request. A deciduous holly of northern bogs and lakeshores, with red summer berries on thread-like stalks and leaves that feed Columbia silkmoth caterpillars.
- [Chalk Maple](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chalk-maple/index.html.md) (*Acer leucoderme*): Small tree, Zones 5–9, 25–30 ft, Price on request. A small maple with chalky white bark and fall color from yellow to deep red, at home in sun or deep shade and on dry, rocky ground.
- [Chapman Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chapman-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus chapmanii*): Small tree, Zones 7–10, 10–25 ft, Price on request. A small white oak of the southern coast with glossy leaves that turn red and yellow into winter, and acorns low in tannin.
- [Chickasaw Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chickasaw-plum/index.html.md) (*Prunus angustifolia*): Small tree, Zones 5–9, 4–20 ft, Price on request. A thicket-forming wild plum that flowers white in late winter, before its leaves, and ripens tart red or yellow plums for jelly in early summer.
- [Chinese Chestnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chinese-chestnut/index.html.md) (*Castanea mollissima*): Medium tree, Zones 4–8, 40–60 ft, Price on request. Blight-resistant chestnuts for the home orchard: large sweet nuts on a spreading, drought-tolerant tree.
- [Chinquapin Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chinquapin-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus muehlenbergii*): Medium tree, Zones 3–8, 40–60 ft, Price on request. The white oak of limestone bluffs and glades, at home in alkaline soil, with glossy chestnut-like leaves and sweet acorns that wildlife and people eat.
- [Chokecherry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chokecherry/index.html.md) (*Prunus virginiana*): Small tree, Zones 2–10, 20–30 ft, Price on request. A tough, thicket-forming native cherry with fragrant white flower spikes in spring and dark red to black cherries for jelly, syrup and birds.
- [Cinnamon Clethra](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/cinnamon-clethra/index.html.md) (*Clethra acuminata*): Shrub, Zones 6–7, 8–20 ft, Price on request. Peeling cinnamon-red bark and drooping spikes of spicy, fragrant white flowers in summer, on a tall shrub of Appalachian mountain slopes.
- [Clammy Locust](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/clammy-locust/index.html.md) (*Robinia viscosa*): Small tree, Zones 3–8, 30–40 ft, Price on request. A rare southern Appalachian locust with clusters of pale rose flowers in spring and sticky glands on its twigs, leaf stalks and pods.
- [Climbing Fetterbush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/climbing-fetterbush/index.html.md) (*Pieris phillyreifolia*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 1–3 ft, Price on request. The only climbing heath in the country, an evergreen that runs up inside cypress bark and hangs white bells from winter into spring.
- [Climbing Prairie Rose](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/climbing-prairie-rose/index.html.md) (*Rosa setigera*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 3–15 ft, Price on request. A native rose with long arching canes, rose-pink flowers that fade toward white in early summer, red hips for birds and bright fall leaves.
- [Clusterspike Indigobush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/clusterspike-indigobush/index.html.md) (*Amorpha herbacea*): Shrub, Zones 7–10, 2–4 ft, Price on request. A low indigobush of southern sandhills whose clustered white to violet flower spikes feed native bees in early summer.
- [Coastal Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/coastal-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron atlanticum*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 2–6 ft, Price on request. Sweet, musky white flowers flushed pink open on knee-high stems in April and May, on a wild azalea that spreads by runners into drifts.
- [Cockspur Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/cockspur-hawthorn/index.html.md) (*Crataegus crus-galli*): Small tree, Zones 3–8, 20–30 ft, Price on request. A flat-topped native hawthorn with thorns 2 to 3 inches long, white flowers in May and June, and dull red haws that often hang on until January.
- [Common Hackberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/common-hackberry/index.html.md) (*Celtis occidentalis*): Large tree, Zones 3–9, 40–60 ft, Price on request. Sole host of the hackberry emperor and American snout, with sweet fruit held for waxwings and bluebirds until March. A tough tree for dry or city ground.
- [Common Hoptree (Wafer Ash)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/common-hoptree/index.html.md) (*Ptelea trifoliata*): Small tree, Zones 4–9, 10–20 ft, Price on request. A small citrus-family tree for shade or dry rock, one of only two native giant swallowtail hosts in the Northeast. Papery wafer fruit hangs all winter.
- [Common Prickly Ash (Toothache Tree)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/common-prickly-ash/index.html.md) (*Zanthoxylum americanum*): Shrub, Zones 3–8, 10–20 ft, Price on request. A thorny citrus-family thicket shrub, the giant swallowtail's other native host, with lemon-scented leaves and red capsules of shiny black seed.
- [Corkwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/corkwood/index.html.md) (*Leitneria floridana*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 5–20 ft, Price on request. A rare swamp shrub whose wood is lighter than cork, forming thickets of slender stems in ground that stays wet or floods.
- [Creeping Blueberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/creeping-blueberry/index.html.md) (*Vaccinium crassifolium*): Shrub, Zones 6–9, 1–2 ft, Price on request. An evergreen blueberry that creeps into a mat under a foot or so tall, with pink bells in April, black berries in summer and bronze new growth.
- [Creeping Juniper](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/creeping-juniper/index.html.md) (*Juniperus horizontalis*): Shrub, Zones 2–9, 1–2 ft, Price on request. A slow, mat-forming evergreen of northern dunes, rocky shores and prairie slopes, with blue-green scale leaves that turn purplish in winter.
- [Cumberland Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/cumberland-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron cumberlandense*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 3–7 ft, Price on request. Red to orange flowers in June and July, after the leaves are out, from a low wild azalea of the Cumberland Plateau and nearby mountains.
- [Cumberland Rosemary](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/cumberland-rosemary/index.html.md) (*Conradina verticillata*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 1–2 ft, Price on request. A federally threatened mint of Cumberland Plateau river bars, a low evergreen mat with rosemary-scented leaves and lavender-pink spring flowers.
- [Dahoon](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/dahoon/index.html.md) (*Ilex cassine*): Small tree, Zones 7–10, 20–30 ft, Price on request. An evergreen holly of southern swamps with glossy, nearly spineless leaves and, on female trees, bright red berries through fall and winter.
- [Dangleberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/dangleberry/index.html.md) (*Gaylussacia frondosa*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 2–6 ft, Price on request. A huckleberry for sandy, acid ground, damp or dry, that spreads into thickets hung with sweet blue berries in summer and turns orange in fall.
- [Deerberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/deerberry/index.html.md) (*Vaccinium stamineum*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 5–15 ft, Price on request. Open white bells with yellow stamens in May, then dangling green to purple berries for grouse, turkeys and bears. The blueberry of dry sandy woods.
- [Devil's Walking Stick](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/devils-walking-stick/index.html.md) (*Aralia spinosa*): Small tree, Zones 4–9, 10–20 ft, Price on request. Two-foot heads of white flowers in August when little else blooms, then purple-black fruit for thrushes and waxwings, on a stem with leaves up to 5 feet long.
- [Devilwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/devilwood/index.html.md) (*Cartrema americana*): Small tree, Zones 5–10, 15–30 ft, Price on request. A native evergreen of the olive family for screens in sun or shade, with fragrant spring flowers and, on female trees, dark blue fruit for birds.
- [Downy Arrowwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/downy-arrowwood/index.html.md) (*Viburnum rafinesqueanum*): Shrub, Zones 3–8, 3–10 ft, Price on request. A small arrowwood for dry, shady woods, with flat white flower clusters in late spring, dark fruit for birds and purplish red fall leaves.
- [Downy Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/downy-hawthorn/index.html.md) (*Crataegus mollis*): Small tree, Zones 3–8, 20–40 ft, Price on request. Missouri's state flower, a broad native hawthorn that blooms early in spring, with soft, downy leaves and red haws up to an inch across.
- [Downy Serviceberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/downy-serviceberry/index.html.md) (*Amelanchier arborea*): Small tree, Zones 4–9, 15–25 ft, Price on request. First to bloom in the woods, first fruit of summer, and orange-red fall color. A four-season small tree.
- [Dwarf Chinquapin Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/dwarf-chinquapin-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus prinoides*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 6–15 ft, Price on request. A true shrub oak that starts dropping sweet, low-tannin acorns within a few years of planting.
- [Dwarf Hackberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/dwarf-hackberry/index.html.md) (*Celtis tenuifolia*): Small tree, Zones 4–9, 15–30 ft, Price on request. A small, twisting hackberry for dry, rocky ground, with sweet orange fruit for birds and leaves that feed hackberry emperor caterpillars.
- [Dwarf Live Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/dwarf-live-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus minima*): Shrub, Zones 7–10, 1–3 ft, Price on request. A knee-high live oak that spreads from underground stems into evergreen patches and can bear acorns just three years from seed.
- [Dwarf Pawpaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/dwarf-pawpaw/index.html.md) (*Asimina parviflora*): Shrub, Zones 7–10, 3–12 ft, Price on request. A pawpaw in miniature for dry southern woods, with maroon spring flowers, small sweet fruit and leaves that feed zebra swallowtail caterpillars.
- [Dwarf Witch Alder](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/dwarf-witch-alder/index.html.md) (*Fothergilla gardenii*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 2–3 ft, Price on request. A small shrub of coastal plain bogs with honey-scented white bottlebrush flowers before the leaves in spring, and red, orange and yellow fall color.
- [Eastern Leatherwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/eastern-leatherwood/index.html.md) (*Dirca palustris*): Shrub, Zones 4–9, 3–6 ft, Price on request. Tiny yellow flowers in the first week of spring, on a rare, slow shade shrub with bark you can tie in knots.
- [Eastern Red Cedar](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/eastern-red-cedar/index.html.md) (*Juniperus virginiana*): Medium tree, Zones 2–9, 30–50 ft, Price on request. A tough evergreen for windbreaks and screens on dry, poor ground, whose frosted blue cones on female trees feed cedar waxwings and other birds all winter.
- [Eastern Redbud](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/eastern-redbud/index.html.md) (*Cercis canadensis*): Small tree, Zones 4–9, 20–30 ft, Price on request. Magenta flowers on bare branches in early spring, heart-shaped leaves and a graceful spreading crown.
- [Eastern Wahoo](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/eastern-wahoo/index.html.md) (*Euonymus atropurpureus*): Shrub, Zones 3–9, 6–20 ft, Price on request. A native shrub or small tree of rich woods and stream banks, with dark purple flowers, yellow to red fall leaves and pink capsules that open on scarlet seeds.
- [Elliott's Blueberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/elliott-blueberry/index.html.md) (*Vaccinium elliottii*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 4–10 ft, Price on request. A wild southern blueberry that hangs white bells on bare twigs before its leaves, ripens sweet black berries by early summer and turns scarlet in fall.
- [Farkleberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/farkleberry/index.html.md) (*Vaccinium arboreum*): Small tree, Zones 6–10, 10–25 ft, Price on request. The tree of the blueberry genus, with fragrant white bells in spring, glossy leaves that redden in fall and black berries that hang into winter.
- [Fevertree](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/fevertree/index.html.md) (*Pinckneya bracteata*): Small tree, Zones 7–9, 10–20 ft, Price on request. Sepals of pink, rose or white, as showy as a poinsettia's, light up this small tree of southern swamp edges for weeks in early summer.
- [Flag Pawpaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/flag-pawpaw/index.html.md) (*Asimina obovata*): Shrub, Zones 8–10, 6–15 ft, Price on request. A Florida pawpaw of sand ridges and scrub, with large lemon-scented white flowers from late winter and green fruit that people and wildlife eat.
- [Flame Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/flame-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron calendulaceum*): Shrub, Zones 5–7, 4–12 ft, Price on request. Clusters of yellow, orange or scarlet funnels with long stamens in May and June, from one of the showiest shrubs of the southern Appalachians.
- [Flatwoods Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/flatwoods-plum/index.html.md) (*Prunus umbellata*): Small tree, Zones 4–10, 12–20 ft, Price on request. A small, single-trunked southern plum that clouds over with white bloom before its leaves, then ripens tart to sweet purple plums for jelly and wildlife.
- [Florida Anise](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/florida-anise/index.html.md) (*Illicium floridanum*): Shrub, Zones 6–10, 6–10 ft, Price on request. A fast-growing evergreen for shade and wet ground, with leaves that smell of anise when crushed and nodding, dark red spring flowers.
- [Florida Bully](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/florida-bully/index.html.md) (*Sideroxylon reclinatum*): Shrub, Zones 8–10, 5–15 ft, Price on request. A thorny shrub of floodplain woods and wet pinelands in the Deep South, with tiny white spring flowers and small black berries that birds eat.
- [Florida Flame Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/florida-flame-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron austrinum*): Shrub, Zones 6–9, 6–10 ft, Price on request. Yellow to orange flowers with long stamens in March and April, from a rare wild azalea of the Florida Panhandle.
- [Florida Leucothoe](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/florida-leucothoe/index.html.md) (*Agarista populifolia*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 8–12 ft, Price on request. A tall evergreen for shady stream banks, with arching stems, red new leaves and fragrant white bells hanging beneath the branches in spring.
- [Florida Maple](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/florida-maple/index.html.md) (*Acer floridanum*): Medium tree, Zones 5–9, 20–60 ft, Price on request. A southern cousin of sugar maple, at home in heat and humidity, with yellow to orange fall color and a rounded crown for shade.
- [Florida Swamp Privet](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/florida-swamp-privet/index.html.md) (*Forestiera segregata*): Shrub, Zones 8–10, 5–15 ft, Price on request. A tough native shrub of southeastern coasts that shrugs off salt wind and drought, with blue-black fruit that ripens early for songbirds.
- [Florida Torreya](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/florida-torreya/index.html.md) (*Torreya taxifolia*): Small tree, Zones 5–9, 30–50 ft, Price on request. A critically endangered evergreen of the yew family from the Apalachicola River bluffs, with glossy, sharp-tipped needles and purple-streaked seed.
- [Florida Yew](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/florida-yew/index.html.md) (*Taxus floridana*): Small tree, Zones 6–10, 12–25 ft, Price on request. A rare yew of the Apalachicola River ravines, a bushy evergreen small tree for shade in warm Southern gardens, with red fruit on female trees.
- [Flowering Dogwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/flowering-dogwood/index.html.md) (*Cornus florida*): Small tree, Zones 5–9, 15–30 ft, Price on request. The classic spring understory tree: white bracts in April, red berries and burgundy leaves in fall.
- [Four-petal Pawpaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/four-petal-pawpaw/index.html.md) (*Asimina tetramera*): Shrub, Zones 9–10, 3–15 ft, Price on request. A rare pawpaw of Florida's coastal sand pine scrub, with nodding flowers that open cream and turn maroon, and fruit that smells of bananas.
- [Fragrant Sumac](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/fragrant-sumac/index.html.md) (*Rhus aromatica*): Shrub, Zones 3–9, 2–6 ft, Price on request. A low, thicket-forming sumac for dry banks, with lemon-scented leaves, fuzzy red fruit for birds and orange to red fall color.
- [Franklin Tree](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/franklin-tree/index.html.md) (*Franklinia alatamaha*): Small tree, Zones 5–9, 10–25 ft, Price on request. Extinct in the wild since 1803, the Franklin tree opens fragrant white flowers from July until frost among leaves that turn red in fall.
- [Fraser Fir](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/fraser-fir/index.html.md) (*Abies fraseri*): Medium tree, Zones 4–7, 30–55 ft, Price on request. The fragrant Christmas-tree fir of the southern Appalachian peaks, a narrow, spire-shaped evergreen now rare in the wild.
- [Fraser Magnolia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/fraser-magnolia/index.html.md) (*Magnolia fraseri*): Medium tree, Zones 5–9, 30–50 ft, Price on request. An Appalachian magnolia with creamy flowers 8 to 10 inches across set in whorls of big, ear-lobed leaves, and rosy red cones in late summer.
- [Georgia Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/georgia-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus georgiana*): Small tree, Zones 5–8, 25–50 ft, Price on request. A rare red oak from the granite outcrops of Georgia and Alabama, with glossy lobed leaves that turn red in fall and hang on into winter.
- [Georgia Plume](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/georgia-plume/index.html.md) (*Elliottia racemosa*): Small tree, Zones 6–9, 10–16 ft, Price on request. Upright plumes of white flowers in midsummer and bright red leaves in fall, on a rare small tree found wild only in Georgia.
- [Golden Heather](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/golden-heather/index.html.md) (*Hudsonia ericoides*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 1–2 ft, Price on request. A low evergreen mat of needle-fine leaves that turns bright yellow with flowers in late spring, on the sand barrens of the Northeast.
- [Golden St. John's-wort](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/golden-st-johns-wort/index.html.md) (*Hypericum frondosum*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 2–10 ft, Price on request. A rounded shrub of limestone glades with blue-green leaves and golden flowers up to 1.75 inches across, each a brush of stamens, in June and July.
- [Granite Gooseberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/granite-gooseberry/index.html.md) (*Ribes curvatum*): Shrub, Zones 7–9, 2–10 ft, Price on request. A rare gooseberry of rocky Southern woods, a low spiny shrub whose arching stems root into a patch, with hanging white flowers in spring.
- [Gray Birch](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/gray-birch/index.html.md) (*Betula populifolia*): Small tree, Zones 3–8, 20–40 ft, Price on request. A fast, small birch with chalky white bark that does not peel, often growing as a clump of slender trunks on poor, sandy ground.
- [Gray Dogwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/gray-dogwood/index.html.md) (*Cornus racemosa*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 4–10 ft, Price on request. White berries on red stalks, about a third fat, feed migrating warblers and sparrows in September. A thicket shrub for dry or wet ground, sun or shade.
- [Green Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/green-hawthorn/index.html.md) (*Crataegus viridis*): Small tree, Zones 4–8, 20–35 ft, Price on request. A southern bottomland hawthorn, often with few thorns, that bears white flowers in spring and small red fruit that holds on well into winter.
- [Gum Bumelia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/gum-bumelia/index.html.md) (*Sideroxylon lanuginosum*): Small tree, Zones 5–10, 15–45 ft, Price on request. A thorny native tree for dry, rocky ground, with fragrant white flowers in early summer and shiny black fruit that birds eat into winter.
- [Hairy Blueberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/hairy-blueberry/index.html.md) (*Vaccinium hirsutum*): Shrub, Zones 7–8, 1–3 ft, Price on request. A low, colony-forming blueberry of the southern Appalachians, hairy in every part, down to its sweet, fuzzy, blue-black berries.
- [Hairy Laurel](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/hairy-laurel/index.html.md) (*Kalmia hirsuta*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 1–2 ft, Price on request. A knee-high evergreen laurel of Southern sandhills, bristly in every part, with pink saucers spotted in red from May into July.
- [Harbison's Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/harbison-hawthorn/index.html.md) (*Crataegus harbisonii*): Small tree, Zones 5–8, 10–26 ft, Price on request. One of the rarest trees in the United States, a Tennessee hawthorn with white flowers about an inch across in May and orange-red haws in fall.
- [Hercules' Club](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/hercules-club/index.html.md) (*Zanthoxylum clava-herculis*): Small tree, Zones 6–10, 15–40 ft, Price on request. A spiny little tree of the southern coastal plain, its trunk studded with corky knobs, its leaves able to numb the tongue and feed giant swallowtails.
- [Hillside Blueberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/hillside-blueberry/index.html.md) (*Vaccinium pallidum*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 1–3 ft, Price on request. A low wild blueberry of dry, rocky hillsides that spreads into colonies, with sweet blue berries in summer and scarlet leaves in fall.
- [Hobblebush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/hobblebush/index.html.md) (*Viburnum lantanoides*): Shrub, Zones 3–6, 3–12 ft, Price on request. A shade shrub of cool northern woods with lacy white flower heads in spring and big heart-shaped leaves that turn bronze-red and purple in fall.
- [Honeycup](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/honeycup/index.html.md) (*Zenobia pulverulenta*): Shrub, Zones 6–9, 3–6 ft, Price on request. Anise-scented white bells, like an oversized lily of the valley, hang in May and June from a rare shrub of southern coastal plain bogs.
- [Hop Hornbeam](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/hop-hornbeam/index.html.md) (*Ostrya virginiana*): Medium tree, Zones 3–9, 25–40 ft, Price on request. A tough, shade-tolerant tree of dry upland woods with shreddy bark and hop-like seed clusters.
- [Hortulan Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/hortulan-plum/index.html.md) (*Prunus hortulana*): Small tree, Zones 5–7, 20–30 ft, Price on request. A wild plum that grows as a single small tree rather than a thicket, with white spring flowers and red or yellow plums about an inch across in late summer.
- [Indigobush (False Indigo)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/indigobush/index.html.md) (*Amorpha fruticosa*): Shrub, Zones 4–9, 6–12 ft, Price on request. Purple flower spikes with orange stamens in June, on a nitrogen-fixing shrub for streambanks and hot dry edges.
- [Inkberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/inkberry/index.html.md) (*Ilex glabra*): Shrub, Zones 4–10, 5–10 ft, Price on request. An evergreen holly with glossy, spineless leaves for hedges and screens on damp, acid ground, and black berries all winter on female plants.
- [Laurel Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/laurel-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus hemisphaerica*): Medium tree, Zones 6–10, 40–60 ft, Price on request. A fast, nearly evergreen red oak of southern sandhills and stream banks, whose glossy leaves hang on until the new ones open in spring.
- [Leadplant](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/leadplant/index.html.md) (*Amorpha canescens*): Shrub, Zones 2–8, 1–3 ft, Price on request. A prairie sub-shrub with silver leaves and purple summer spikes, rooted deep against drought.
- [Little Walnut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/little-walnut/index.html.md) (*Juglans microcarpa*): Small tree, Zones 5–9, 20–30 ft, Price on request. The smallest of the walnuts, a drought-hardy tree of Texas and the southern Plains with fine, narrow leaflets and marble-sized nuts.
- [Littlehip Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/littlehip-hawthorn/index.html.md) (*Crataegus spathulata*): Small tree, Zones 5–9, 10–26 ft, Price on request. A slow, small tree prized for its peeling bark of gray, orange, olive and brown, with tiny spoon-shaped leaves, white spring flowers and red haws.
- [Littleleaf Buckbrush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/littleleaf-buckbrush/index.html.md) (*Ceanothus microphyllus*): Shrub, Zones 8–10, 1–2 ft, Price on request. A foot-high cousin of New Jersey tea for dry, sandy pinelands of the Deep South, with leaves under half an inch and white flower clusters in spring.
- [Lloyd's St. John's-wort](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/lloyd-st-johns-wort/index.html.md) (*Hypericum lloydii*): Shrub, Zones 6–9, 1–2 ft, Price on request. A low, spreading shrub of sandhills and granite outcrops, with fragrant, needle-like leaves and golden flowers from June into September.
- [Loblolly Bay](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/loblolly-bay/index.html.md) (*Gordonia lasianthus*): Medium tree, Zones 7–9, 35–60 ft, Price on request. Fragrant white flowers like a camellia's from June into September, on a narrow evergreen tree of southern bays for wet, acid ground.
- [Long-stalked Holly](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/long-stalked-holly/index.html.md) (*Ilex collina*): Shrub, Zones 5–7, 10–13 ft, Price on request. A rare deciduous holly of high Appalachian streams and bogs, with bright red berries that dangle on stalks up to an inch long.
- [Maleberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/maleberry/index.html.md) (*Lyonia ligustrina*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 6–12 ft, Price on request. A tough native heath of swamp edge and dry ridge, hung with white bells in June for four rare specialist bees, that almost no nursery grows.
- [Maple-leaf Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/maple-leaf-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus acerifolia*): Small tree, Zones 5–9, 20–50 ft, Price on request. A rare red oak of a few Arkansas mountaintops, with broad leaves shaped like a sugar maple's that turn red in fall.
- [Mapleleaf Viburnum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mapleleaf-viburnum/index.html.md) (*Viburnum acerifolium*): Shrub, Zones 3–8, 3–6 ft, Price on request. A small viburnum for shade, with maple-shaped leaves that turn pink, magenta and purple in fall and blue-black berries for birds.
- [Mayhaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mayhaw/index.html.md) (*Crataegus aestivalis*): Small tree, Zones 4–10, 10–40 ft, Price on request. A thorny native hawthorn of southern swamps that flowers white in late winter and ripens tart red fruit in May, the fruit of mayhaw jelly.
- [Mexican Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mexican-plum/index.html.md) (*Prunus mexicana*): Small tree, Zones 5–8, 10–35 ft, Price on request. A single-trunked wild plum that does not sucker, with fragrant white bloom before the leaves and purple plums for eating fresh or for jelly.
- [Miccosukee Gooseberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/miccosukee-gooseberry/index.html.md) (*Ribes echinellum*): Shrub, Zones 7–9, 2–5 ft, Price on request. A federally threatened gooseberry of rich Southern woods, a low spiny shrub whose leaves drop in summer and return in fall, with spiny berries in spring.
- [Michaux's Sumac](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/michaux-sumac/index.html.md) (*Rhus michauxii*): Shrub, Zones 7–8, 1–3 ft, Price on request. A rare, low sumac of sandy and rocky open woods in North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia, densely hairy all over, with red fruit on female plants.
- [Minnie-bush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/minnie-bush/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron pilosum*): Shrub, Zones 5–7, 3–6 ft, Price on request. Small nodding bells of greenish white flushed with red in late spring, on an upright mountain shrub with hairy leaves and shreddy bark.
- [Mountain Bush-honeysuckle](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mountain-bush-honeysuckle/index.html.md) (*Diervilla rivularis*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 3–6 ft, Price on request. A rare, colony-forming shrub of southern Appalachian bluffs, with clusters of pale yellow summer flowers, hairy leaves and yellow and red fall color.
- [Mountain Camellia (Mountain Stewartia)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mountain-camellia/index.html.md) (*Stewartia ovata*): Small tree, Zones 5–8, 10–20 ft, Price on request. Large white camellia-like flowers in July on a rare Appalachian small tree with orange-red fall color.
- [Mountain Doghobble](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mountain-doghobble/index.html.md) (*Leucothoe fontanesiana*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 3–6 ft, Price on request. Arching evergreen stems hung with sprays of waxy white bells in spring, from the thicket shrub of southern Appalachian stream banks.
- [Mountain Fetterbush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mountain-fetterbush/index.html.md) (*Pieris floribunda*): Shrub, Zones 4–6, 3–6 ft, Price on request. A compact evergreen of southern Appalachian balds, with upright clusters of fragrant white bells in spring from buds that show all winter.
- [Mountain Indigobush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mountain-indigobush/index.html.md) (*Amorpha glabra*): Shrub, Zones 7–8, 3–6 ft, Price on request. A smooth-leaved indigobush of Appalachian ridges and slopes, 3 to 6 feet tall, with purple flower spikes and golden anthers in early summer.
- [Mountain Laurel](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mountain-laurel/index.html.md) (*Kalmia latifolia*): Shrub, Zones 4–9, 5–12 ft, Price on request. Native evergreen with clusters of origami-like pink and white flowers in June and twisted, sculptural trunks.
- [Mountain Maple](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mountain-maple/index.html.md) (*Acer spicatum*): Small tree, Zones 2–7, 10–25 ft, Price on request. A shade-loving small maple with upright spikes of tiny flowers in early summer and leaves that turn yellow, orange and red in fall.
- [Mountain Sweetbells](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mountain-sweetbells/index.html.md) (*Eubotrys recurva*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 3–12 ft, Price on request. Arching sprays of white bells on bare red twigs in spring and red leaves in fall, on a deciduous mountain shrub of the southern Appalachians.
- [Mountain Winterberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mountain-winterberry/index.html.md) (*Ilex montana*): Small tree, Zones 5–10, 20–40 ft, Price on request. A deciduous holly of moist Appalachian slopes, with leaves up to 6 inches long and red fruit larger than most hollies bear, a favorite of birds.
- [Mountain Witch Alder](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mountain-witch-alder/index.html.md) (*Fothergilla major*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 6–10 ft, Price on request. Honey-scented white bottlebrush flowers in April and leaves that turn yellow, orange and red in fall, on a rare shrub of southern mountains.
- [Myrtle Dahoon](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/myrtle-dahoon/index.html.md) (*Ilex myrtifolia*): Small tree, Zones 7–10, 15–25 ft, Price on request. A small-leaved evergreen holly of southern swamp edges, with thick, shiny leaves like a myrtle's and red berries that last into spring.
- [Myrtle Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/myrtle-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus myrtifolia*): Small tree, Zones 7–10, 15–40 ft, Price on request. An evergreen oak of the southern coastal scrub, with small, glossy leaves the year round, that takes dry sand, salt wind and drought.
- [Nannyberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/nannyberry/index.html.md) (*Viburnum lentago*): Shrub, Zones 2–8, 12–18 ft, Price on request. A big, adaptable viburnum with creamy flowers, edible blue-black fruit and wine-red fall color.
- [Nantucket Serviceberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/nantucket-serviceberry/index.html.md) (*Amelanchier nantucketensis*): Shrub, Zones 3–8, 2–6 ft, Price on request. A rare, low serviceberry of the sandy Atlantic coast that spreads into a colony: white flowers in May and edible blue berries by July.
- [Netted Pawpaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/netted-pawpaw/index.html.md) (*Asimina reticulata*): Shrub, Zones 8–10, 1–5 ft, Price on request. A low Florida pawpaw of flatwoods and scrub, with fragrant white flowers banded dark purple inside from winter into spring, and edible fruit.
- [New Jersey Tea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/new-jersey-tea/index.html.md) (*Ceanothus americanus*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 2–3 ft, Price on request. A knee-high shrub for dry, poor ground, with fragrant white flower clusters in June that feed azures, hairstreaks and two bees that use almost nothing else.
- [Ninebark](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/ninebark/index.html.md) (*Physocarpus opulifolius*): Shrub, Zones 2–8, 5–10 ft, Price on request. Peeling bark, white flower balls in June, and a constitution that shrugs off drought, flood and cold.
- [Northern Bayberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/northern-bayberry/index.html.md) (*Morella pensylvanica*): Shrub, Zones 3–7, 5–10 ft, Price on request. Waxy gray berries hold above the snow all winter for yellow-rumped warblers, tree swallows and quail. A salt-tolerant shrub that fixes its own nitrogen.
- [Northern White Cedar](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/northern-white-cedar/index.html.md) (*Thuja occidentalis*): Medium tree, Zones 2–7, 40–60 ft, Price on request. The wild arborvitae, a narrow, fragrant evergreen of northern cedar swamps and limestone cliffs that makes a dense screen.
- [Oconee Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/oconee-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron flammeum*): Shrub, Zones 6–9, 6–8 ft, Price on request. Scarlet, orange-red or orange flowers in April and May, among the brightest of all American azaleas, on a heat-tolerant shrub of Georgia and South Carolina.
- [Odorless Bayberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/odorless-bayberry/index.html.md) (*Morella inodora*): Shrub, Zones 7–10, 10–20 ft, Price on request. An evergreen bayberry of Gulf Coast swamps and bayheads whose leathery leaves, unlike those of other bayberries, have no scent when crushed.
- [Ogeechee Tupelo](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/ogeechee-tupelo/index.html.md) (*Nyssa ogeche*): Medium tree, Zones 6–9, 25–45 ft, Price on request. The tree behind tupelo honey, with tart red fruit known as Ogeechee lime on the females, for ground that floods or stays wet.
- [Ohio Buckeye](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/ohio-buckeye/index.html.md) (*Aesculus glabra*): Medium tree, Zones 3–7, 20–40 ft, Price on request. Ohio's state tree, among the first to leaf out, with upright clusters of greenish yellow flowers and glossy brown buckeyes in prickly husks.
- [Ouachita Indigobush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/ouachita-indigobush/index.html.md) (*Amorpha ouachitensis*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 3–6 ft, Price on request. A rare indigobush of the Ouachita Mountains, 3 to 6 feet tall, with slender purple flower spikes up to 8 inches long in late spring.
- [Overcup Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/overcup-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus lyrata*): Large tree, Zones 5–9, 40–60 ft, Price on request. A bottomland white oak that stands in floodwater for months and then takes a dry summer in stride, with acorns almost swallowed by their cups.
- [Ozark Chinquapin](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/ozark-chinquapin/index.html.md) (*Castanea ozarkensis*): Small tree, Zones 5–8, 15–30 ft, Price on request. The Ozarks' own chestnut, once a tree of 60 feet with sweet nuts for people and wildlife, now rare because chestnut blight kills its stems to the ground.
- [Ozark Witch Hazel](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/ozark-witch-hazel/index.html.md) (*Hamamelis vernalis*): Shrub, Zones 3–8, 6–10 ft, Price on request. Fragrant red, orange or yellow flowers on bare branches from January into March, the first bloom of the year, on a shrub that takes floods.
- [Pagoda Dogwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pagoda-dogwood/index.html.md) (*Cornus alternifolia*): Small tree, Zones 3–8, 15–25 ft, Price on request. A small dogwood with branches held in flat tiers like a pagoda, cream flower clusters in late spring and blue-black fruit on red stalks.
- [Painted Buckeye](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/painted-buckeye/index.html.md) (*Aesculus sylvatica*): Small tree, Zones 6–8, 10–20 ft, Price on request. A small buckeye for part shade, with upright flower clusters in yellow, cream or pink that feed hummingbirds on their spring migration.
- [Parsley Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/parsley-hawthorn/index.html.md) (*Crataegus marshallii*): Small tree, Zones 4–9, 7–25 ft, Price on request. A small southern hawthorn with leaves cut fine as parsley, white flowers with red anthers in early spring, peeling bark and glossy scarlet fruit.
- [Pawpaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pawpaw/index.html.md) (*Asimina triloba*): Small tree, Zones 5–9, 15–30 ft, Price on request. The largest native fruit in North America, custard-sweet and tropical, on an understory tree of rich bottomlands.
- [Pear Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pear-hawthorn/index.html.md) (*Crataegus calpodendron*): Small tree, Zones 4–8, 7–23 ft, Price on request. One of the last hawthorns to bloom and one of the most shade-tolerant, a vase-shaped small tree with white flowers into June and small orange-red haws.
- [Piedmont Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/piedmont-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron canescens*): Shrub, Zones 5–10, 6–15 ft, Price on request. Fragrant pink flowers with long, upcurved stamens in early spring, from the most common wild azalea of the Southeast.
- [Piedmont Rhododendron](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/piedmont-rhododendron/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron minus*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 3–10 ft, Price on request. One of the smaller evergreen rhododendrons, with trusses of pink to white flowers in spring and a heat tolerance few rhododendrons match.
- [Pin Cherry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pin-cherry/index.html.md) (*Prunus pensylvanica*): Small tree, Zones 2–7, 15–40 ft, Price on request. A fast pioneer cherry that springs up after fire, with white spring flowers, shiny red-brown bark and sour red cherries for dozens of birds.
- [Pinkshell Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pinkshell-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron vaseyi*): Shrub, Zones 4–7, 5–15 ft, Price on request. Wide-open pink flowers on bare spring twigs, from a rare azalea that grows wild only in the mountains of North Carolina.
- [Pinxterbloom Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pinxterbloom-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron periclymenoides*): Shrub, Zones 4–9, 3–6 ft, Price on request. Fragrant pink trumpets open on bare branches in April for bumble bees, hummingbirds and swallowtails. The deciduous wild azalea of Mid-Atlantic woods.
- [Piratebush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/piratebush/index.html.md) (*Buckleya distichophylla*): Shrub, Zones 6–7, 6–12 ft, Price on request. A rare shrub of Southern Appalachian slopes that draws on the roots of hemlock and other trees, with leaves in two flat rows and yellow-orange fruit.
- [Plateau Live Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/plateau-live-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus fusiformis*): Small tree, Zones 5–10, 20–40 ft, Price on request. The common live oak of central Texas, green through the winter, with gnarled limbs that spread a great distance from a short trunk.
- [Plumleaf Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/plumleaf-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron prunifolium*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 8–12 ft, Price on request. Orange-red to red azalea flowers in July and August, after most wild azaleas are done, on a rare shrub of Georgia and Alabama ravines.
- [Pondberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pondberry/index.html.md) (*Lindera melissifolia*): Shrub, Zones 7–9, 2–6 ft, Price on request. A rare, colony-forming spicebush of flooded woods and pond edges, with drooping, root-beer-scented leaves, early yellow flowers and red fruit.
- [Pondspice](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pondspice/index.html.md) (*Litsea aestivalis*): Shrub, Zones 7–9, 10–15 ft, Price on request. A rare coastal plain shrub of pond and swamp edges, with zigzag twigs, small leathery leaves, yellow flowers before the leaves and red fruit.
- [Possumhaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/possumhaw/index.html.md) (*Ilex decidua*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 7–15 ft, Price on request. A deciduous holly whose orange-red berries line the bare gray branches from September to March, feeding birds late in winter.
- [Possumhaw Viburnum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/possumhaw-viburnum/index.html.md) (*Viburnum nudum*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 5–12 ft, Price on request. A glossy-leaved viburnum for wet ground whose berries turn pink, blue and purplish black, often all at once in the same cluster.
- [Post Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/post-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus stellata*): Medium tree, Zones 5–9, 35–50 ft, Price on request. A drought-hardy white oak of dry ridges and the Cross Timbers, with leathery, cross-shaped leaves, that can live 300 years or more.
- [Prairie Crabapple](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/prairie-crabapple/index.html.md) (*Malus ioensis*): Small tree, Zones 2–8, 20–30 ft, Price on request. The wild crabapple of the Midwest prairies, whose pink buds open to fragrant blossoms in spring before waxy green apples ripen for jelly and wildlife.
- [Prairie Redroot](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/prairie-redroot/index.html.md) (*Ceanothus herbaceus*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 2–3 ft, Price on request. A knee-high prairie shrub for dry, limy ground, with round clusters of white flowers in spring that feed bees and butterflies, and roots that fix nitrogen.
- [Pygmy Fringetree](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pygmy-fringetree/index.html.md) (*Chionanthus pygmaeus*): Shrub, Zones 7–10, 3–12 ft, Price on request. A rare dwarf fringetree from the sand ridges of central Florida, with showy clusters of fragrant white flowers in early spring and inch-long fruit.
- [Rabbiteye Blueberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/rabbiteye-blueberry/index.html.md) (*Vaccinium virgatum*): Shrub, Zones 7–9, 6–15 ft, Price on request. The tall blueberry of Southern gardens, with white or pink bells in spring and sweet blue berries through summer, tougher in heat and drought than highbush.
- [Red Buckeye](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/red-buckeye/index.html.md) (*Aesculus pavia*): Small tree, Zones 4–9, 10–25 ft, Price on request. A small buckeye for part shade whose upright clusters of tubular red flowers open in early spring, in time for the returning hummingbirds.
- [Red Chokeberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/red-chokeberry/index.html.md) (*Aronia arbutifolia*): Shrub, Zones 3–9, 6–12 ft, Price on request. A tall, suckering shrub of bogs and swamps with white spring flowers, glossy red fruit that hangs into winter and blazing red fall leaves.
- [Red Elderberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/red-elderberry/index.html.md) (*Sambucus racemosa*): Shrub, Zones 3–7, 8–12 ft, Price on request. Cone-shaped white flowers in April and glowing red berries by June, the earliest berry crop for birds.
- [Red Hills Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/red-hills-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron colemanii*): Shrub, Zones 6–9, 8–20 ft, Price on request. Fragrant white or pink azalea flowers in May, after the leaves are out, on a rare wild shrub of the Red Hills of Alabama and Georgia.
- [Red Mulberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/red-mulberry/index.html.md) (*Morus rubra*): Medium tree, Zones 4–9, 35–50 ft, Price on request. The native mulberry, with big sandpapery leaves and long, sweet, dark fruit that birds and people fight over.
- [Red Osier Dogwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/red-osier-dogwood/index.html.md) (*Cornus sericea*): Shrub, Zones 2–7, 6–12 ft, Price on request. A fast, thicket-forming shrub of wet ground whose young stems turn bright red after the leaves fall and glow against snow all winter.
- [Redbay](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/redbay/index.html.md) (*Persea borbonia*): Medium tree, Zones 7–10, 30–60 ft, Price on request. A spicy-leaved evergreen of the southern coast, with dark blue fruit for birds, now dying across much of its range from laurel wilt.
- [Rhodora](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/rhodora/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron canadense*): Shrub, Zones 4–6, 1–3 ft, Price on request. Rose-purple, two-lipped azalea flowers on bare twigs in May, lighting up the bogs and wet woods of the Northeast before the leaves.
- [Rosebay Rhododendron](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/rosebay-rhododendron/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron maximum*): Shrub, Zones 3–7, 10–15 ft, Price on request. The great evergreen rhododendron of Appalachian stream valleys, with pink-white trusses in July.
- [Roughleaf Dogwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/roughleaf-dogwood/index.html.md) (*Cornus drummondii*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 6–15 ft, Price on request. A fast thicket dogwood for dry or wet ground, with creamy flowers in late spring and white berries that dozens of kinds of birds eat.
- [Roundleaf Dogwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/roundleaf-dogwood/index.html.md) (*Cornus rugosa*): Shrub, Zones 2–8, 3–10 ft, Price on request. A shade-tolerant northern dogwood with nearly round, wrinkled leaves, flat clusters of white flowers and pale blue berries on red stalks.
- [Roundleaf Serviceberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/roundleaf-serviceberry/index.html.md) (*Amelanchier sanguinea*): Shrub, Zones 2–8, 3–23 ft, Price on request. A shrub of rocky slopes and sandy woods with nearly round leaves, white spring flowers and sweet dark purple fruit, rare at the edges of its range.
- [Runner Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/runner-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus pumila*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 3–6 ft, Price on request. A shrub oak for the poorest, driest sand, spreading by underground runners into broad, low thickets that feed and shelter wildlife.
- [Rusty Blackhaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/rusty-blackhaw/index.html.md) (*Viburnum rufidulum*): Small tree, Zones 5–9, 10–20 ft, Price on request. Glossy, leathery leaves that turn deep red in fall, white flower clusters in spring and sweet blue fruit, on a small southern tree.
- [Sand Cherry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sand-cherry/index.html.md) (*Prunus pumila*): Shrub, Zones 3–6, 1–8 ft, Price on request. A low, tough shrub of dunes, beaches and sandy prairies, with white spring flowers and purple-black cherries for jam from its second or third year.
- [Sand Myrtle](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sand-myrtle/index.html.md) (*Kalmia buxifolia*): Shrub, Zones 6–8, 1–3 ft, Price on request. A low, dense evergreen with tiny glossy leaves that turn bronze in winter, smothered in pink buds and white starry flowers in spring.
- [Sand Pine](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sand-pine/index.html.md) (*Pinus clausa*): Small tree, Zones 7–10, 25–40 ft, Price on request. Florida's scrub pine, a leaning, bushy tree that stands salt spray and outgrows other pines on deep, dry sand.
- [Sand Post Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sand-post-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus margaretta*): Small tree, Zones 6–9, 15–40 ft, Price on request. A compact post oak of deep coastal-plain sands, built for drought and heat.
- [Sandhill Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sandhill-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus inopina*): Shrub, Zones 7–9, 5–16 ft, Price on request. An evergreen shrub oak found wild only in peninsular Florida, whose leathery leaves stand upright on the stems, their edges rolled under.
- [Sassafras](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sassafras/index.html.md) (*Sassafras albidum*): Medium tree, Zones 4–9, 30–60 ft, Price on request. Mitten leaves, orange fall color and fat-rich blue berries on red stalks that thrushes and flycatchers strip in late summer. Host of the spicebush swallowtail.
- [Scentless Mock Orange](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/scentless-mock-orange/index.html.md) (*Philadelphus inodorus*): Shrub, Zones 5–10, 6–12 ft, Price on request. A tall, arching southern shrub that covers itself in big white four-petaled flowers in spring, easy in sun or part shade and tolerant of drought.
- [Scrub Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/scrub-hickory/index.html.md) (*Carya floridana*): Small tree, Zones 8–10, 10–30 ft, Price on request. A small hickory of Florida's dry scrub sand, with sweet, hard-shelled nuts and rusty scales beneath its leaves.
- [Scrub Plum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/scrub-plum/index.html.md) (*Prunus geniculata*): Shrub, Zones 9–10, 2–6 ft, Price on request. A rare, gnarled shrub of Florida scrub with zig-zag, spine-tipped branches, white flowers on bare twigs in winter and small reddish plums in spring.
- [Seaside Alder](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/seaside-alder/index.html.md) (*Alnus maritima*): Shrub, Zones 3–9, 12–30 ft, Price on request. The one native alder that blooms in fall, hanging gold catkins in August and September on a rare shrub that stands in water and feeds its own soil.
- [Shadblow Serviceberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/shadblow-serviceberry/index.html.md) (*Amelanchier canadensis*): Small tree, Zones 3–8, 6–25 ft, Price on request. A clump-forming serviceberry of swamps and wet thickets, with upright white flower clusters in early spring and sweet purple-black berries by June.
- [Shingle Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/shingle-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus imbricaria*): Medium tree, Zones 4–8, 40–60 ft, Price on request. A red oak with long, glossy leaves that have no lobes at all, turning russet in fall and clinging to the branches through winter.
- [Shining Indigobush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/shining-indigobush/index.html.md) (*Amorpha nitens*): Shrub, Zones 7–9, 3–10 ft, Price on request. A rare indigobush of southern stream banks and wooded slopes, with glossy leaflets and dark purple spikes lit by orange anthers in spring.
- [Silky Camellia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/silky-camellia/index.html.md) (*Stewartia malacodendron*): Small tree, Zones 6–9, 10–15 ft, Price on request. White flowers about 3 inches across, with purple stamens and blue anthers, on a rare shrub of southern coastal plain woods.
- [Silky Dogwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/silky-dogwood/index.html.md) (*Cornus amomum*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 6–12 ft, Price on request. Creamy flower clusters in June, porcelain-blue berries in September and purple-red winter stems for wet spots.
- [Silverleaf Hydrangea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/silverleaf-hydrangea/index.html.md) (*Hydrangea radiata*): Shrub, Zones 3–9, 3–6 ft, Price on request. White lacecap flowers from May into July over leaves that flash silver in the wind, on a woodland shrub of the southern Blue Ridge.
- [Slimleaf Pawpaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/slimleaf-pawpaw/index.html.md) (*Asimina longifolia*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 3–6 ft, Price on request. A pawpaw of southern sandhills and pine savannas with long, slim leaves, nodding white fragrant flowers in spring and summer, and edible fruit.
- [Smooth Alder (Swamp Alder)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/smooth-alder/index.html.md) (*Alnus serrulata*): Shrub, Zones 4–9, 10–20 ft, Price on request. A nitrogen-fixing streambank shrub that holds soil, feeds woodcock and grouse, and thrives in standing water.
- [Smooth Winterberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/smooth-winterberry/index.html.md) (*Ilex laevigata*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 6–10 ft, Price on request. A deciduous holly of East Coast swamps with glossy leaves that turn yellow in fall and orange-red berries that feed birds through winter.
- [Softleaf Arrowwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/softleaf-arrowwood/index.html.md) (*Viburnum molle*): Shrub, Zones 5–7, 6–12 ft, Price on request. A rare arrowwood of wooded limestone bluffs, with loose, peeling bark on its older stems and flat clusters of white flowers in May and June.
- [Sourwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sourwood/index.html.md) (*Oxydendrum arboreum*): Medium tree, Zones 5–9, 25–50 ft, Price on request. Lily-of-the-valley flowers in July, the famous sourwood honey, and fall color that rivals any maple.
- [Southern Bush-honeysuckle](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/southern-bush-honeysuckle/index.html.md) (*Diervilla sessilifolia*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 3–5 ft, Price on request. A tough, suckering native shrub of southern mountain balds and rocky slopes, with clusters of sulfur-yellow summer flowers for bumble bees.
- [Southern Catalpa](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/southern-catalpa/index.html.md) (*Catalpa bignonioides*): Medium tree, Zones 5–9, 30–60 ft, Price on request. Upright clusters of white flowers spotted purple and yellow in May and June, then long bean-like pods, on the fast-growing catalpa native to the Gulf states.
- [Southern Crabapple](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/southern-crabapple/index.html.md) (*Malus angustifolia*): Small tree, Zones 4–9, 20–30 ft, Price on request. A southern wild crabapple whose pink blossoms smell of violets in spring, followed by small, sour, yellow-green apples for jelly and wildlife.
- [Southern Pawpaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/southern-pawpaw/index.html.md) (*Asimina pygmea*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 1–2 ft, Price on request. A pawpaw only a foot or two tall, of Florida and Georgia flatwoods, with maroon flowers in spring and fruit that gopher tortoises eat.
- [Spicebush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/spicebush/index.html.md) (*Lindera benzoin*): Shrub, Zones 4–9, 6–12 ft, Price on request. Yellow flowers in March, spicy-scented leaves, red berries for thrushes and the host plant of the spicebush swallowtail.
- [Squashberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/squashberry/index.html.md) (*Viburnum edule*): Shrub, Zones 2–8, 2–7 ft, Price on request. A northern viburnum with lobed leaves that turn brilliant red in fall and sour red fruit for jam, for cool, moist woods and stream banks.
- [Staggerbush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/staggerbush/index.html.md) (*Lyonia mariana*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 2–6 ft, Price on request. Nodding clusters of white bells up to half an inch long on bare twigs in spring, then bright red leaves in fall, on a sandy-soil shrub.
- [Staghorn Sumac](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/staghorn-sumac/index.html.md) (*Rhus typhina*): Shrub, Zones 3–8, 15–25 ft, Price on request. Fuzzy antler-like branches, fiery orange-red fall color and red fruit cones that feed birds through the winter.
- [Strawberry Bush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/strawberry-bush/index.html.md) (*Euonymus americanus*): Shrub, Zones 6–9, 4–6 ft, Price on request. Warty crimson capsules split open in fall to show orange-red seeds, on a slender woodland shrub with square green stems.
- [Streambank Mock Orange](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/streambank-mock-orange/index.html.md) (*Philadelphus hirsutus*): Shrub, Zones 4–10, 3–10 ft, Price on request. A thin, arching southern shrub of rocky bluffs and stream banks, with white spring flowers and leaves that are white and hairy beneath.
- [Striped Maple](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/striped-maple/index.html.md) (*Acer pensylvanicum*): Small tree, Zones 3–7, 15–35 ft, Price on request. A small maple for deep, cool shade, with green bark striped in white and big three-lobed leaves that turn bright yellow in fall.
- [Swamp Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/swamp-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron viscosum*): Shrub, Zones 4–9, 3–8 ft, Price on request. Sticky, clove-scented white flowers from May to July, one of the last wild azaleas to bloom, on a shrub that takes wet, acid ground.
- [Swamp Doghobble](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/swamp-doghobble/index.html.md) (*Eubotrys racemosa*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 4–10 ft, Price on request. Arching sprays of white bell flowers in May on a deciduous heath shrub for wet, acid ground in sun or part shade.
- [Swamp Privet](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/swamp-privet/index.html.md) (*Forestiera acuminata*): Small tree, Zones 6–9, 8–30 ft, Price on request. A native of swamps and wet woods whose yellow flowers open on bare branches in early spring, followed on female trees by purple fruit that ducks eat.
- [Swamp White Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/swamp-white-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus bicolor*): Medium tree, Zones 3–8, 50–60 ft, Price on request. A white oak for wet ground, with peeling bark, two-toned leaves that flash silver in the wind and acorns that hang on long, slender stalks.
- [Sweet Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sweet-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron arborescens*): Shrub, Zones 4–8, 8–20 ft, Price on request. Very fragrant white flowers with red stamens in late spring and early summer, among the last wild azaleas to bloom.
- [Sweet Pepperbush (Summersweet)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sweet-pepperbush/index.html.md) (*Clethra alnifolia*): Shrub, Zones 4–9, 4–8 ft, Price on request. Spires of intensely fragrant white flowers in August, when almost nothing else is blooming, and bees know it.
- [Sweetbay Magnolia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sweetbay-magnolia/index.html.md) (*Magnolia virginiana*): Small tree, Zones 5–10, 15–35 ft, Price on request. Lemon-scented white flowers from May into summer, silver-backed leaves, and a love of wet ground.
- [Sweetleaf](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sweetleaf/index.html.md) (*Symplocos tinctoria*): Small tree, Zones 7–9, 15–30 ft, Price on request. A small understory tree with fluffy, fragrant cream flowers on its bare twigs in early spring and leaves with a faintly sweet taste.
- [Sweetshrub](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sweetshrub/index.html.md) (*Calycanthus floridus*): Shrub, Zones 4–9, 6–12 ft, Price on request. A shrub for sun or deep shade whose maroon spring flowers smell of strawberry, pineapple and banana.
- [Table Mountain Pine](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/table-mountain-pine/index.html.md) (*Pinus pungens*): Small tree, Zones 5–7, 20–40 ft, Price on request. A gnarled Appalachian ridge pine that grows like a giant bonsai, its cones armed with hooked spines, for dry, rocky ground in full sun.
- [Texas Red Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/texas-red-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus buckleyi*): Medium tree, Zones 5–10, 20–50 ft, Price on request. A red oak of the limestone hills of central Texas and Oklahoma, with fall color from burgundy to scarlet on a tree small enough for a yard.
- [Three-flower Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/three-flower-hawthorn/index.html.md) (*Crataegus triflora*): Shrub, Zones 7–8, 3–20 ft, Price on request. A rare southern hawthorn with white flowers as big as a wild rose's, often three to a cluster in spring, and round red haws with juicy orange flesh.
- [Titi](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/titi/index.html.md) (*Cyrilla racemiflora*): Shrub, Zones 5–10, 8–30 ft, Price on request. Fragrant white flower sprays in early summer and orange-red leaves in fall, on a thicket-forming shrub of southern swamps whose flowers give a dark honey.
- [Tough Bully](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/tough-bully/index.html.md) (*Sideroxylon tenax*): Small tree, Zones 8–10, 12–30 ft, Price on request. A thorny small tree of dunes and scrub with leaves silky gold to copper beneath, fragrant flowers that swarm with pollinators, and fruit for birds.
- [Toughleaf Dogwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/toughleaf-dogwood/index.html.md) (*Cornus asperifolia*): Shrub, Zones 7–9, 6–13 ft, Price on request. A thicket dogwood of the southern Coastal Plain for limy soils, with rough, hairy leaves, white spring flowers and pale blue berries.
- [Turkey Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/turkey-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus laevis*): Small tree, Zones 7–9, 20–50 ft, Price on request. The oak of the southern sandhills, with deep-cut leaves shaped like a turkey's foot that turn red in fall and cling into winter.
- [Two-wing Silverbell](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/two-wing-silverbell/index.html.md) (*Halesia diptera*): Small tree, Zones 4–9, 15–30 ft, Price on request. White bells in spring and two-winged fruit in fall, on a small tree of southern floodplains that takes shade and wet ground.
- [Umbrella Magnolia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/umbrella-magnolia/index.html.md) (*Magnolia tripetala*): Small tree, Zones 4–9, 15–30 ft, Price on request. Leaves up to 2 feet long gather at each branch tip like the ribs of an umbrella, around creamy white flowers up to 10 inches across.
- [Upland Swamp Privet](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/upland-swamp-privet/index.html.md) (*Forestiera ligustrina*): Shrub, Zones 6–9, 6–10 ft, Price on request. A shrub of the limestone glades and rocky woods of the Southeast, with gray-green leaves, summer flowers and blue-black fruit in early fall.
- [Virginia Spiraea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/virginia-spiraea/index.html.md) (*Spiraea virginiana*): Shrub, Zones 6–7, 3–13 ft, Price on request. A rare Appalachian streambank shrub with arching stems and flat clusters of tiny cream-white flowers in early summer, spreading into thickets.
- [Virginia Sweetspire](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/virginia-sweetspire/index.html.md) (*Itea virginica*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 3–6 ft, Price on request. Fragrant white flower spikes in June, red and gold fall leaves that hang on into winter, and roots that are happy in wet ground.
- [Walter's Viburnum](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/walter-viburnum/index.html.md) (*Viburnum obovatum*): Shrub, Zones 7–10, 10–20 ft, Price on request. A fast, dense southern viburnum with small, glossy leaves and clusters of white flowers that open in late winter.
- [Washington Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/washington-hawthorn/index.html.md) (*Crataegus phaenopyrum*): Small tree, Zones 4–8, 20–30 ft, Price on request. White June flowers, glossy red fruit that hangs into winter, and a thorny crown that shelters nesting birds.
- [Water Elm](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/water-elm/index.html.md) (*Planera aquatica*): Small tree, Zones 6–9, 30–40 ft, Price on request. A small, low-crowned tree of southern swamps and river bottoms, with flaky bark and warty, nutlike fruit, for ground that floods.
- [Water Locust](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/water-locust/index.html.md) (*Gleditsia aquatica*): Medium tree, Zones 6–10, 40–60 ft, Price on request. A thorny swamp cousin of honeylocust for floodplains that stay under water for long spells, with small, flat pods holding one to three seeds.
- [Western Mayhaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/western-mayhaw/index.html.md) (*Crataegus opaca*): Small tree, Zones 6–9, 20–30 ft, Price on request. The mayhaw of the Gulf states, a thorny hawthorn of wet river bottoms that blooms white in February and ripens red fruit for jelly in May.
- [White Fringetree](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/white-fringetree/index.html.md) (*Chionanthus virginicus*): Small tree, Zones 4–9, 12–20 ft, Price on request. Clouds of fragrant white fringe in May, then blue fruit for the birds, on a small tree for any yard.
- [White Wicky](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/white-wicky/index.html.md) (*Kalmia cuneata*): Shrub, Zones 8–8, 2–5 ft, Price on request. Creamy white cups banded in red in early June and scarlet leaves in fall, on the one deciduous cousin of mountain laurel, from Carolina bogs.
- [Wild Black Currant](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/wild-black-currant/index.html.md) (*Ribes americanum*): Shrub, Zones 3–7, 3–6 ft, Price on request. A thornless currant of moist woods and stream banks, with drooping yellow-green flowers in spring, black berries in summer and gold and crimson fall leaves.
- [Wild Hydrangea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/wild-hydrangea/index.html.md) (*Hydrangea arborescens*): Shrub, Zones 3–9, 3–6 ft, Price on request. A woodland shrub that blooms on new stems even when cut to the ground each winter, with broad heads of creamy white flowers in early summer.
- [Winged Elm](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/winged-elm/index.html.md) (*Ulmus alata*): Medium tree, Zones 6–9, 40–60 ft, Price on request. A tough, fast-growing southern elm with corky wings along its twigs, for dry rocky ridges, heavy clay and bottomland alike.
- [Winterberry Holly](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/winterberry/index.html.md) (*Ilex verticillata*): Shrub, Zones 3–9, 6–12 ft, Price on request. Bare winter branches lined with scarlet berries, on a deciduous holly that loves wet ground.
- [Witch Hazel](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/witch-hazel/index.html.md) (*Hamamelis virginiana*): Shrub, Zones 3–8, 12–20 ft, Price on request. The last flower of the year: ribbon-like yellow blooms in November as the golden leaves fall.
- [Woolly Beach Heather](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/woolly-beach-heather/index.html.md) (*Hudsonia tomentosa*): Shrub, Zones 2–8, 1–2 ft, Price on request. A gray, woolly evergreen mat of dunes and sand barrens that covers itself in tiny yellow flowers from May into July.
- [Woolly Huckleberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/woolly-huckleberry/index.html.md) (*Gaylussacia mosieri*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 1–3 ft, Price on request. A bog huckleberry of the Gulf coast whose twigs, flowers and sweet black berries all bristle with long, glandular hairs.
- [Woolly Pawpaw](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/woolly-pawpaw/index.html.md) (*Asimina incana*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 4–6 ft, Price on request. A Florida and Georgia pawpaw of sandhills and old fields, with soft woolly leaves, creamy white flowers in spring and edible fruit.
- [Yaupon](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/yaupon/index.html.md) (*Ilex vomitoria*): Small tree, Zones 7–9, 10–25 ft, Price on request. A native evergreen holly for hedges and screens, with glossy leaves and, on female trees, red berries that birds take in late winter.
- [Yellow Anise](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/yellow-anise/index.html.md) (*Illicium parviflorum*): Shrub, Zones 6–10, 10–20 ft, Price on request. A rare Florida evergreen for shade and wet ground, with olive green leaves that smell of licorice when crushed and nodding pale yellow flowers.
- [Yellowwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/yellowwood/index.html.md) (*Cladrastis kentukea*): Medium tree, Zones 4–8, 30–50 ft, Price on request. Cascading wisteria-like white flowers in late spring on a smooth, gray-barked tree that few nurseries grow.
- [Carolina St. John's-wort](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/carolina-st-johns-wort/index.html.md) (*Hypericum nitidum*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 1–15 ft, Price on request. A wetland shrub of southern ponds and stream banks that grows into dense thickets of needle-like leaves and small yellow flowers.
- [Chapman's St. John's-wort](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chapman-st-johns-wort/index.html.md) (*Hypericum chapmanii*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 7–13 ft, Price on request. A Florida Panhandle shrub that grows like a small tree, with corky, peeling bark, needle-like leaves and yellow summer flowers.
- [Conjurer's-nut](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/conjurers-nut/index.html.md) (*Nestronia umbellula*): Shrub, Zones 7–8, 1–4 ft, Price on request. A rare low shrub of dry southern oak and pine woods that draws on the roots of the plants around it and spreads into large colonies.
- [Dwarf Tupelo](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/dwarf-tupelo/index.html.md) (*Nyssa ursina*): Shrub, Zones 6–10, 3–16 ft, Price on request. A rare, shrubby tupelo found only in the Florida panhandle, with small leathery leaves, round black fruit and stems that sprout back after fire.
- [Florida Willow](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/florida-willow/index.html.md) (*Salix floridana*): Shrub, Zones 8–10, 6–20 ft, Price on request. A rare willow of Southern spring runs and wet, limy woods, with broad leaves glossy above and whitish beneath and catkins in late winter.
- [Georgia Bully](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/georgia-bully/index.html.md) (*Sideroxylon thornei*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 3–20 ft, Price on request. A rare thorny buckthorn of limestone swamps in the Deep South, with mildly fragrant white flowers in late spring and small black fruit for wildlife.
- [Georgia Indigobush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/georgia-indigobush/index.html.md) (*Amorpha georgiana*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 1–3 ft, Price on request. One of the rarest shrubs of the South, a low indigobush of sandy pinelands whose dark purple spring spikes bristle with orange-tipped stamens.
- [Godfrey's Swamp Privet](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/godfrey-swamp-privet/index.html.md) (*Forestiera godfreyi*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 8–16 ft, Price on request. A rare native privet of wooded limestone bluffs and shell mounds, whose golden flower clusters open in midwinter, earlier than any other native privet.
- [Lanceleaf Buckthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/lanceleaf-buckthorn/index.html.md) (*Rhamnus lanceolata*): Shrub, Zones 5–8, 3–15 ft, Price on request. A native buckthorn of limestone glades and bluffs, a slender shrub with glossy leaves and small black fruit for birds, and not the invasive kind.
- [May White Azalea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/may-white-azalea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron eastmanii*): Shrub, Zones 8–9, 15–16 ft, Price on request. Fragrant white flowers with a yellow blotch open in May and June, after the leaves, on a rare wild azalea found only in South Carolina.
- [Pyramid Magnolia](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pyramid-magnolia/index.html.md) (*Magnolia pyramidata*): Small tree, Zones 6–9, 10–30 ft, Price on request. A rare magnolia of southern bluffs and ravines, with creamy white flowers 5 to 7 inches across and kite-shaped leaves eared at the base.
- [Sarvis Holly](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sarvis-holly/index.html.md) (*Ilex amelanchier*): Small tree, Zones 7–10, 10–30 ft, Price on request. A rare deciduous holly of southern swamps and stream banks, with soft, dull leaves and velvety rose-red berries that last into spring.
- [Schwerin's Indigobush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/schwerin-indigobush/index.html.md) (*Amorpha schwerinii*): Shrub, Zones 7–8, 3–10 ft, Price on request. A bushy indigobush of rocky Piedmont hills, with purple flower spikes bristling with golden stamens from April into June.
- [Smooth-bark St. John's-wort](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/smooth-bark-st-johns-wort/index.html.md) (*Hypericum lissophloeus*): Shrub, Zones 7–10, 6–10 ft, Price on request. A Florida Panhandle rarity for pond edges, with silvery bark that peels like a birch's and bright yellow flowers from May until frost.
- [Weeping Hawthorn](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/weeping-hawthorn/index.html.md) (*Crataegus lacrimata*): Small tree, Zones 8–9, 10–26 ft, Price on request. A small hawthorn of southern pinewoods and sandy scrub, with strongly weeping branches, tiny bright green leaves and yellow to red haws in summer.

## How the matching works

- **Zone.** A tree or shrub is listed when your zone is inside its hardiness range.
- **Mature size.** The type the catalog gives each one, as in the shop's size boxes.
- **Height limit.** Those whose typical mature height tops out at or under the limit, or at 60 ft or more for its last step. The article on [small trees for a small yard](https://bluewhaletrees.com/articles/small-native-trees-for-small-yards/index.html.md) says how far each goes from a house or a line.
- **Sun and soil.** What each one is known to tolerate, counting the labels for shade, wet ground and drought.
- **Must have.** Every trait you tick, all at once.
- **Counts.** The number beside each box and each choice is how many would remain if you chose it too.
- **Best fit first.** Trees and shrubs that list your sun and soil outright come before those that only tolerate them. Within that, those with your zone in the middle of their range come before those at its edge.
- **Ties.** Those that can be ordered now come first, then those with a photo, then the rest by name.
- **ZIP code.** It sets the zone from the same listing as the ZIP code tool, and the code itself is not kept.
- **Compare.** Tick Compare on up to four cards, then press Compare side by side for their facts in one table above the list. The trees stay in it while the filters change, and the address carries them, so a copied link opens the table.
- **Hedge spacing.** On a Hedge or screen list each card gives the spacing its own page sets. A hedge length gives how many to set in one straight row, with one at each end. The article on [hedges, screens and windbreaks](https://bluewhaletrees.com/articles/native-hedges-screens-and-windbreaks/index.html.md) covers staggered rows.

The address carries every choice, so a copied link opens the same list. The page draws that list before any script runs, so a shared link and the page's Markdown copy show the trees and shrubs themselves. These are its keys:

- **zone**: 2 to 10.
- **size**: shrub, small-tree, medium-tree or large-tree.
- **height**: 15, 20, 30, 40 or 60 for a top height at or under that many feet, or 60-plus.
- **sun**: full, part or shade. **moisture**: dry, average or wet.
- **want**: one or more traits joined by commas, such as want=evergreen,screening. The boxes are flowers, fall-color, winter-interest, wildlife, honey, edible, evergreen, rare, early-bearing, screening, nitrogen-fixing, salt, street-tree and erosion-control. The address also takes drought, wet-tolerant and shade.
- **hedge**: a hedge length in feet, read when screening is wanted. **sort**: name, height, hardy or fast, or the price orders once prices are set.
- **compare**: up to four plant page names joined by commas, such as compare=black-gum,pawpaw, for the table side by side.

Each tree's facts come from its own page: its zones, mature height, sun, soil, labels and hedge spacing. The 20 and 40 ft height steps are the International Society of Arboriculture's zones by overhead wires ([Avoiding Tree & Utility Conflicts](https://www.treesaregood.org/Portals/0/TreesAreGood_Avoid%20Utility%20Conflict_0621.pdf), 2021). Within 15 feet of distribution wires, the species chosen "should have a mature height of 20 feet (6 meters) or lower". From 15 to 50 feet out, it should have "a potential mature height of 40 feet (12 meters) or lower". The planting-site check follows the same zones. The 30 ft step is the small-tree ceiling the [growth estimator](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/growth/index.html.md) uses for its generic small tree. Virginia Cooperative Extension draws the low zone wider, to 20 feet from the line, where "trees in the low zone should not exceed 25 feet at maturity" ([Selecting and Managing Trees to Avoid Conflicts with Overhead Utility Lines](https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/430/430-029/430-029.html), 2024). Under the line itself it suggests large shrubs with "a mature height of less than 15 feet", the limit's first step. A ZIP code's zone is the 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map's ZIP code listing, prepared by the PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University.

When nothing fits, the site is usually the problem rather than the catalog: [tell us](https://bluewhaletrees.com/support/index.html.md#contact) the zone, soil, sun and what the tree needs to do, and we will suggest something.

The address carries the tree finder's inputs, so a link opens it filled in, and Copy link on a result writes one: zone (a whole number from 2 to 10), size (shrub, small-tree, medium-tree or large-tree), height (a mature height to stay under: 15, 20, 30, 40 or 60 feet, or 60-plus), sun (full, part or shade), moisture (dry, average or wet), want (one or more of flowers, fall-color, winter-interest, wildlife, honey, edible, evergreen, rare, early-bearing, screening, nitrogen-fixing, salt, street-tree, erosion-control, shade, wet-tolerant or drought, joined by commas), hedge (a hedge or screen length in feet, for a plant count), sort (featured, name, price-asc, price-desc, height, hardy or fast), compare (the slugs of the plants to compare, joined by commas). For example, [/tools/tree-finder/?zone=6&size=small-tree&sun=part&moisture=average&want=fall-color](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/tree-finder/index.html.md?zone=6&size=small-tree&sun=part&moisture=average&want=fall-color).