# 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/?moisture=dry

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".

188 of our 364 trees and shrubs match

Matching: Dry soil.

Best fits first: those that list your soil outright, then those that only tolerate it.

- [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.
- [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.
- [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 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 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.
- [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.
- [Bald Cypress](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bald-cypress/index.html.md) (*Taxodium distichum*): Large tree, Zones 4–10, 50–80 ft, Price on request. The swamp conifer that also thrives on dry lawns, with feathery foliage that turns rust-orange in fall.
- [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 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 Cherry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-cherry/index.html.md) (*Prunus serotina*): Large tree, Zones 2–9, 50–80 ft, Price on request. The largest native cherry, a fast-growing tree with drooping spikes of white flowers in spring and black cherries in summer for birds, bears and jelly.
- [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 Gum (Tupelo)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-gum/index.html.md) (*Nyssa sylvatica*): Large tree, Zones 4–9, 40–70 ft, Price on request. Blazing scarlet fall color, superb bee forage, and one of the longest-lived hardwoods in the East.
- [Black Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-hickory/index.html.md) (*Carya texana*): Medium tree, Zones 5–9, 30–80 ft, Price on request. A hickory of dry, rocky hills, with near-black, deeply furrowed bark, rusty-scaled buds and small, sweet nuts.
- [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.
- [Black Locust](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-locust/index.html.md) (*Robinia pseudoacacia*): Large tree, Zones 4–8, 40–70 ft, Price on request. Fragrant white flower clusters in May, the source of the lightest and most prized honey in the East.
- [Black Maple](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-maple/index.html.md) (*Acer nigrum*): Large tree, Zones 3–8, 60–75 ft, Price on request. A sugar maple for warmer, drier ground, with a dense rounded crown, nearly black furrowed bark and sap that boils down to syrup.
- [Black Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/black-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus velutina*): Large tree, Zones 3–9, 50–80 ft, Price on request. A tough red oak of dry ridges, sand and rocky slopes, with yellow inner bark once used for dye and acorns that feed turkeys and deer.
- [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.
- [Blue Ash](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/blue-ash/index.html.md) (*Fraxinus quadrangulata*): Large tree, Zones 4–7, 50–70 ft, Price on request. The one ash worth planting: square twigs, limestone-loving roots and real tolerance of emerald ash borer.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Bur Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bur-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus macrocarpa*): Large tree, Zones 3–8, 60–80 ft, Price on request. A massive, drought-hardy oak of the prairie edge, with corky bark, a broad crown and the biggest acorns of any native oak in fringed, mossy cups.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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 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.
- [Cedar Elm](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/cedar-elm/index.html.md) (*Ulmus crassifolia*): Large tree, Zones 6–9, 50–70 ft, Price on request. A tough shade tree with the smallest leaves of any native elm, flowers in late summer and clear yellow fall color, for dry or soggy clay.
- [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.
- [Chestnut Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/chestnut-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus montana*): Medium tree, Zones 4–8, 50–70 ft, Price on request. The white oak of dry, rocky Appalachian ridges, with deeply ridged dark bark, chestnut-like leaves and big, sweet acorns that fall early.
- [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 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.
- [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 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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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 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 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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Kentucky Coffeetree](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/kentucky-coffeetree/index.html.md) (*Gymnocladus dioicus*): Large tree, Zones 3–8, 60–80 ft, Price on request. Bold, coarse and nearly indestructible: a rare native shade tree for tough sites and cold climates.
- [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.
- [Live Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/live-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus virginiana*): Large tree, Zones 7–10, 40–80 ft, Price on request. The evergreen oak of the southern coast, with a vast, low crown of sweeping limbs that stands salt spray and hurricanes and can live for centuries.
- [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.
- [Longleaf Pine](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/longleaf-pine/index.html.md) (*Pinus palustris*): Large tree, Zones 7–10, 60–120 ft, Price on request. The great pine of the southern sandhills, with needles up to 18 inches long and a grass stage that hides it for years, for sun and dry, sandy ground.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Mockernut Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mockernut-hickory/index.html.md) (*Carya tomentosa*): Large tree, Zones 4–9, 60–80 ft, Price on request. A squirrel's preferred mast, with citrus-scented leaves, fat furry winter buds and clear gold fall color, on a hickory the trade seldom sells.
- [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.
- [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 Catalpa](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/northern-catalpa/index.html.md) (*Catalpa speciosa*): Large tree, Zones 4–8, 40–70 ft, Price on request. Orchid-like white flowers in June, giant heart-shaped leaves and a tolerance for almost any soil.
- [Northern Pin Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/northern-pin-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus ellipsoidalis*): Medium tree, Zones 3–7, 50–70 ft, Price on request. The red oak of the Great Lakes sand plains, the most drought tolerant of its group, with deeply cut leaves that turn red in fall.
- [Northern Red Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/northern-red-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus rubra*): Large tree, Zones 3–8, 50–75 ft, Price on request. A fast, long-lived red oak with big, bristle-tipped leaves that turn russet to bright red in fall and acorns that feed turkeys, bears and deer.
- [Nuttall Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/nuttall-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus texana*): Large tree, Zones 5–9, 50–80 ft, Price on request. A fast bottomland red oak for heavy, wet clay, with acorns that feed ducks, deer and turkeys and leaves that turn deep red late in fall.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Pignut Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pignut-hickory/index.html.md) (*Carya glabra*): Large tree, Zones 4–9, 50–80 ft, Price on request. The everyday hickory of Appalachian ridges: tight gray bark, pear-shaped nuts that fox and gray squirrels live on through winter and rich gold fall color.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Pond Cypress](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pond-cypress/index.html.md) (*Taxodium ascendens*): Medium tree, Zones 5–10, 30–70 ft, Price on request. A slim cousin of bald cypress whose skyward shoots turn orange-brown in fall, at home in standing water or on a dry lawn.
- [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.
- [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 Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/red-hickory/index.html.md) (*Carya ovalis*): Large tree, Zones 4–8, 60–100 ft, Price on request. An upland hickory with sweet nuts, leafstalks often tinged red and gray bark that turns slightly shaggy with age.
- [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.
- [Rock Elm](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/rock-elm/index.html.md) (*Ulmus thomasii*): Large tree, Zones 2–9, 70–90 ft, Price on request. The elm with the hardest, strongest wood, a tall tree of limestone ridges and rich woods with corky-winged branches and seed that wildlife relish.
- [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 Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sand-hickory/index.html.md) (*Carya pallida*): Large tree, Zones 5–9, 40–100 ft, Price on request. A hickory of dry, sandy woods and ridges, with silvery scales beneath its leaves and small, sweet nuts.
- [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.
- [September Elm](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/september-elm/index.html.md) (*Ulmus serotina*): Large tree, Zones 4–8, 60–70 ft, Price on request. A rare southern elm that blooms in September and ripens fringed seed by November, a fast-growing shade tree of limestone bluffs and stream sides.
- [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.
- [Shumard Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/shumard-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus shumardii*): Large tree, Zones 5–9, 50–80 ft, Price on request. A big red oak for shade, with deeply cut leaves that turn red early in fall, at home on moist bottomland or on dry, limy ground.
- [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.
- [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 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.
- [Southern Red Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/southern-red-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus falcata*): Large tree, Zones 6–9, 60–80 ft, Price on request. A common upland red oak of the South, at home on poor, dry sand or clay, with long-lobed leaves and small acorns for wildlife.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Sugarberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sugarberry/index.html.md) (*Celtis laevigata*): Large tree, Zones 5–10, 50–80 ft, Price on request. The hackberry of southern bottomlands, a fast shade tree for wet or dry ground, with warty gray bark and sweet fruit that birds eat into winter.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [White Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/white-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus alba*): Large tree, Zones 3–9, 50–80 ft, Price on request. The great white oak of eastern woods, a broad shade tree that can live 600 years, with wine-red fall color and sweet acorns that wildlife seek out.
- [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.
- [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 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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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).