# Tree finder

> 163 of our 423 trees and shrubs match: full sun, wet soil.

Blue Whale Trees, a native tree nursery in the United States. Web version: https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/tree-finder/?moisture=wet&sun=full

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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- [A small tree for shade](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/tree-finder/index.html.md?size=small-tree&sun=shade)
- [A small tree under wires](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/tree-finder/index.html.md?size=small-tree&height=20)
- [An evergreen hedge](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/tree-finder/index.html.md?want=evergreen,screening)
- [Wet ground](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/tree-finder/index.html.md?moisture=wet)
- [Trees for honey bees](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/tree-finder/index.html.md?want=honey)

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".

163 of our 423 trees and shrubs match

Matching: Full sun, Wet soil.

Best fits first: those that list your sun and soil outright, then those that only tolerate them.

- [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.
- [American Elm](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-elm/index.html.md) (*Ulmus americana*): Large tree, Zones 2–9, 60–80 ft, Price on request. The great vase-shaped elm of old American streets, a fast shade tree for wet or dry ground, now best planted alone among trees of other kinds.
- [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 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 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 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.
- [American Wisteria](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/american-wisteria/index.html.md) (*Wisteria frutescens*): Shrub, Zones 3–9, 15–30 ft, Price on request. A native wisteria whose purple flower clusters open after its leaves unfold, much tamer than the invasive Asian wisterias it resembles.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Balsam Fir](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/balsam-fir/index.html.md) (*Abies balsamea*): Medium tree, Zones 2–7, 40–75 ft, Price on request. The fragrant Christmas-tree fir of the North Woods, with flat, dark needles of strong balsam scent, upright purple cones and a narrow spire of a crown.
- [Balsam Poplar](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/balsam-poplar/index.html.md) (*Populus balsamifera*): Large tree, Zones 2–5, 30–100 ft, Price on request. The northernmost American hardwood, a fast poplar for wet ground whose sticky spring buds fill the air with the scent of balm of Gilead.
- [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.
- [Bebb's Willow](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bebb-willow/index.html.md) (*Salix bebbiana*): Shrub, Zones 3–7, 10–25 ft, Price on request. A northern willow of streams and wet meadows, the main source of carved diamond willow, with spring catkins and twigs that moose and deer browse.
- [Bitternut Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/bitternut-hickory/index.html.md) (*Carya cordiformis*): Large tree, Zones 4–9, 50–80 ft, Price on request. The hardiest hickory and the fastest-growing, with sulfur-yellow winter buds and clear yellow fall color, on a tree nurseries seldom carry.
- [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 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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Cabbage Palmetto](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/cabbage-palmetto/index.html.md) (*Sabal palmetto*): Medium tree, Zones 7–10, 30–60 ft, Price on request. The native tree palm of the Southeast coast, evergreen and salt-hardy, with fragrant summer flowers for bees and black fruit for wildlife.
- [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 Jessamine](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/carolina-jessamine/index.html.md) (*Gelsemium sempervirens*): Shrub, Zones 6–10, 10–20 ft, Price on request. A native evergreen vine that twines up a fence or arbor and covers itself in fragrant yellow trumpets from late winter into spring.
- [Carolina Willow](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/carolina-willow/index.html.md) (*Salix caroliniana*): Small tree, Zones 6–10, 15–30 ft, Price on request. The common small willow of southern swamps and stream banks, fast on wet ground, with early yellow catkins for bees and leaves that feed viceroys.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Cherrybark Oak, Wye Island line](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/cherrybark-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus pagoda*): Large tree, Zones 6–9, 80–120 ft, Price on request. Acorns and seedlings from a single outstanding cherrybark oak on Wye Island, Maryland: tall, straight and fast growing.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Crossvine](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/crossvine/index.html.md) (*Bignonia capreolata*): Shrub, Zones 5–9, 30–50 ft, Price on request. A native evergreen vine that climbs by sticky tendrils, with orange and yellow trumpet flowers that feed hummingbirds in early spring.
- [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.
- [Delta Post Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/delta-post-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus similis*): Large tree, Zones 7–9, 60–80 ft, Price on request. A post oak that tolerates wet feet, from the bottomlands of the lower Mississippi valley.
- [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 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.
- [Durand Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/durand-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus sinuata*): Large tree, Zones 5–9, 50–75 ft, Price on request. A southern white oak of creek bottoms and limestone bluffs, with pale bark that flakes away in papery scales and wavy leaves, often silvery beneath.
- [Dwarf Palmetto](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/dwarf-palmetto/index.html.md) (*Sabal minor*): Shrub, Zones 7–10, 4–10 ft, Price on request. A hardy palm for wet shade whose trunk stays underground, sending up evergreen fans up to 5 feet across and tall stalks of fragrant flowers.
- [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.
- [Evergreen Bayberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/evergreen-bayberry/index.html.md) (*Morella caroliniensis*): Shrub, Zones 6–9, 8–12 ft, Price on request. A colony-forming bayberry of southern bogs and swamps, with spicy-scented leaves and gray-white waxy fruit that feeds birds through the 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.
- [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 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.
- [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 Alder](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/green-alder/index.html.md) (*Alnus viridis*): Shrub, Zones 2–8, 3–14 ft, Price on request. The alder of the far North, a spreading, nitrogen-fixing shrub for stream banks and poor, gravelly ground, with catkins that open with the leaves.
- [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.
- [Groundsel Bush](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/groundsel-bush/index.html.md) (*Baccharis halimifolia*): Shrub, Zones 5–10, 5–12 ft, Price on request. A fast native shrub for salt spray and wet ground on the coast, whose female plants turn silvery in fall with plumed seeds.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Kalm's St. John's-wort](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/kalm-st-johns-wort/index.html.md) (*Hypericum kalmianum*): Shrub, Zones 4–7, 2–4 ft, Price on request. A dense, low shrub of Great Lakes shores with narrow, bluish-green leaves, covered for a month in midsummer with golden flowers.
- [Labrador Tea](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/labrador-tea/index.html.md) (*Rhododendron groenlandicum*): Shrub, Zones 2–8, 1–5 ft, Price on request. A low evergreen shrub of northern bogs, with rounded clusters of small white flowers and leathery, fragrant leaves felted rusty beneath.
- [Large Cranberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/large-cranberry/index.html.md) (*Vaccinium macrocarpon*): Shrub, Zones 2–7, 1–2 ft, Price on request. A low evergreen mat of wiry runners, with pink crane-like flowers in early summer and red fall berries, the wild parent of the cultivated cranberry.
- [Limber Honeysuckle](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/limber-honeysuckle/index.html.md) (*Lonicera dioica*): Shrub, Zones 3–7, 3–10 ft, Price on request. A low native honeysuckle that twines up a fence or sprawls as a shrub, with whorls of yellow to red flowers for hummingbirds and red berries for birds.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Missouri River Willow](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/missouri-river-willow/index.html.md) (*Salix eriocephala*): Shrub, Zones 3–9, 6–20 ft, Price on request. A fast native willow of stream banks and wet meadows whose silky catkins open among the first flowers of spring, feeding emerging bees.
- [Mountain Fly Honeysuckle](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/mountain-fly-honeysuckle/index.html.md) (*Lonicera villosa*): Shrub, Zones 3–6, 1–5 ft, Price on request. A small native shrub of northern bogs and wet woods, a wild relative of the haskap, with paired pale yellow flowers and edible blue berries.
- [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.
- [Nannyberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/nannyberry/index.html.md) (*Viburnum lentago*): Shrub, Zones 2–9, 12–18 ft, Price on request. A big, adaptable viburnum with creamy flowers, edible blue-black fruit and wine-red fall color.
- [Needle Palm](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/needle-palm/index.html.md) (*Rhapidophyllum hystrix*): Shrub, Zones 6–10, 3–6 ft, Price on request. One of the hardiest palms, a trunkless clump of glossy fans up to 30 inches across, guarded at the base by long black needles.
- [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 Pecan](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pecan/index.html.md) (*Carya illinoinensis*): Large tree, Zones 5–9, 70–100 ft, Price on request. Northern-adapted pecan from the upper reaches of its range, ripening thin-shelled nuts in short seasons.
- [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.
- [Nutmeg Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/nutmeg-hickory/index.html.md) (*Carya myristiciformis*): Large tree, Zones 7–9, 80–100 ft, Price on request. The rarest hickory, with leaves backed in silvery scales and sweet, thick-shelled nuts that look like nutmegs, from scattered stands across the South.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Oglethorpe Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/oglethorpe-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus oglethorpensis*): Large tree, Zones 6–9, 50–80 ft, Price on request. One of the rarest oaks in North America, with willow-like unlobed leaves and white-oak toughness.
- [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.
- [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 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.
- [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.
- [Peachleaf Willow](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/peachleaf-willow/index.html.md) (*Salix amygdaloides*): Medium tree, Zones 2–8, 35–60 ft, Price on request. The tallest native willow of the prairie states, a fast tree for stream banks and wet ground with peach-like leaves that are whitish beneath.
- [Pin Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pin-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus palustris*): Large tree, Zones 4–8, 50–70 ft, Price on request. A fast red oak for wet, acid ground, shaped like a pyramid with drooping lower limbs, with deep red fall color and small acorns that feed ducks.
- [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.
- [Pond Pine](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/pond-pine/index.html.md) (*Pinus serotina*): Medium tree, Zones 7–9, 40–70 ft, Price on request. A pine for wet, acid ground whose round cones can stay shut on the branches for years, until the heat of a fire opens them.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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 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.
- [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.
- [River Birch](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/river-birch/index.html.md) (*Betula nigra*): Medium tree, Zones 3–9, 40–70 ft, Price on request. A fast birch for wet ground and southern heat, with salmon to cinnamon bark that peels in papery curls and shows all winter.
- [Riverbank Grape](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/riverbank-grape/index.html.md) (*Vitis riparia*): Shrub, Zones 2–9, 35–75 ft, Price on request. A hardy native grape vine that climbs by tendrils along streams and fences, with fragrant spring flowers and tart blue-black grapes for birds and jelly.
- [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.
- [Saw Palmetto](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/saw-palmetto/index.html.md) (*Serenoa repens*): Shrub, Zones 8–10, 3–8 ft, Price on request. A low, creeping palm with stiff fans on saw-toothed stalks, fragrant flowers for bees and fruit for bears, deer and birds.
- [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.
- [Sheep Laurel](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sheep-laurel/index.html.md) (*Kalmia angustifolia*): Shrub, Zones 2–8, 1–5 ft, Price on request. A low evergreen shrub of northern bogs and barrens, with rose-pink flowers ringing the stems in early summer. Every part is poisonous to livestock.
- [Shellbark Hickory (Kingnut)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/shellbark-hickory/index.html.md) (*Carya laciniosa*): Large tree, Zones 5–8, 60–80 ft, Price on request. The largest hickory nut, sweet and thick shelled, on a shaggy-barked tree of river bottoms that stands spring floods. Rare in the wild and rarer in nurseries.
- [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.
- [Showy Mountain Ash](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/showy-mountain-ash/index.html.md) (*Sorbus decora*): Small tree, Zones 2–6, 20–40 ft, Price on request. A small tree of the far North, with flat clusters of white flowers and heavy bunches of scarlet berries that bend the branches and feed birds.
- [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.
- [Slippery Elm](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/slippery-elm/index.html.md) (*Ulmus rubra*): Medium tree, Zones 3–9, 40–70 ft, Price on request. The elm of the slippery inner bark, a fast, shade-tolerant tree of moist slopes and bottomlands, best grown in a wild corner among trees of other kinds.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Spruce Pine](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/spruce-pine/index.html.md) (*Pinus glabra*): Large tree, Zones 7–9, 40–80 ft, Price on request. A soft-needled pine of southern river bottoms, one of the few pines that grows in part shade, for moist ground or a tall screen.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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 Chestnut Oak, select line](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/swamp-chestnut-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus michauxii*): Large tree, Zones 5–9, 60–90 ft, Price on request. Huge, sweet acorns and clean chestnut-like foliage, collected from a superior parent tree.
- [Swamp Cottonwood](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/swamp-cottonwood/index.html.md) (*Populus heterophylla*): Large tree, Zones 6–9, 70–90 ft, Price on request. A big poplar for swamps and sloughs, with heart-shaped leaves up to 8 inches long that open in white down, rare at the north end of its range.
- [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 Laurel Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/swamp-laurel-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus laurifolia*): Large tree, Zones 6–10, 40–80 ft, Price on request. A fast red oak for wet southern ground, with glossy leaves that are often diamond-shaped and big acorn crops that turkeys and deer seek out.
- [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 Tupelo](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/swamp-tupelo/index.html.md) (*Nyssa biflora*): Large tree, Zones 6–9, 60–80 ft, Price on request. A tupelo for southern swamps and pond edges, with a swollen base, red fall color and spring flowers that bees make into tupelo honey.
- [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 Gale](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sweet-gale/index.html.md) (*Myrica gale*): Shrub, Zones 2–6, 2–6 ft, Price on request. A fragrant shrub of northern bogs and lake shores, with resin-dotted leaves that smell sweet when crushed and roots that fix their own nitrogen.
- [Sweet Pepperbush (Summersweet)](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/sweet-pepperbush/index.html.md) (*Clethra alnifolia*): Shrub, Zones 3–9, 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.
- [Tamarack](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/tamarack/index.html.md) (*Larix laricina*): Large tree, Zones 2–6, 50–75 ft, Price on request. A conifer that turns gold and drops its needles each fall, the fastest-growing native conifer of northern bogs and wet ground.
- [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.
- [Trumpet Creeper](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/trumpet-creeper/index.html.md) (*Campsis radicans*): Shrub, Zones 4–10, 30–40 ft, Price on request. A fast native vine whose orange-red trumpets draw hummingbirds all summer, for a sturdy arbor or fence where its root suckers can be kept in check.
- [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.
- [Velvetleaf Blueberry](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/velvetleaf-blueberry/index.html.md) (*Vaccinium myrtilloides*): Shrub, Zones 2–6, 1–4 ft, Price on request. A low wild blueberry of the North with softly hairy leaves that turn red in fall and sweet, tart blue berries from July into September.
- [Virginia Creeper](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/virginia-creeper/index.html.md) (*Parthenocissus quinquefolia*): Shrub, Zones 3–10, 30–50 ft, Price on request. A fast native vine that climbs by sticky pads, turns crimson early in fall and feeds birds through the winter with blue-black berries.
- [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.
- [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 Hickory](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/water-hickory/index.html.md) (*Carya aquatica*): Large tree, Zones 5–10, 80–100 ft, Price on request. A bottomland hickory for southern clay that floods in spring and can crack dry in summer, with bitter nuts that wood ducks and mallards swallow whole.
- [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.
- [Water Tupelo](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/water-tupelo/index.html.md) (*Nyssa aquatica*): Large tree, Zones 6–10, 60–100 ft, Price on request. A long-lived tree of southern river swamps, with a bottle-shaped base, that stands in floodwater for months and feeds bees in spring.
- [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 3–9, 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.
- [Willow Oak](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/willow-oak/index.html.md) (*Quercus phellos*): Large tree, Zones 5–9, 40–75 ft, Price on request. A fast, long-lived red oak with narrow leaves like a willow's, for moist ground and city streets, that bears small acorns nearly every year.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [Yellow Birch](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/yellow-birch/index.html.md) (*Betula alleghaniensis*): Large tree, Zones 3–7, 60–75 ft, Price on request. A long-lived shade tree for cool, moist ground, with shiny golden bronze bark that peels in thin curls and bright yellow leaves in fall.
- [Yellow Buckeye](https://bluewhaletrees.com/plants/yellow-buckeye/index.html.md) (*Aesculus flava*): Large tree, Zones 3–8, 50–75 ft, Price on request. A tall buckeye for big spaces, with upright clusters of yellow flowers that draw hummingbirds and bees in spring.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.
- [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.

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## 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.

## Common questions

### Which native tree is best for my yard?

In the finder's list the best fit comes first: trees and shrubs whose pages list your sun and soil outright, then those that only tolerate them. Within each group, those with your zone in the middle of their range come before those at its edge.

### Can the tree finder identify a tree from a leaf or photo?

No: the finder lists native trees and shrubs to plant, matched to your zone, size, sun and soil. To name a tree you found, use the [tree identification](https://bluewhaletrees.com/tools/identify/index.html.md) tool, which names it from a photo of a leaf, the bark, a twig, fruit or a flower.

### What tree can I plant close to my house?

Set the finder's height limit to the room you have: it matches the top of each species' typical mature height. Our 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 one goes from a house.

### What trees can I plant under power lines?

Within 15 feet of the wires, the International Society of Arboriculture says a tree should mature at 20 feet or lower. Virginia Cooperative Extension allows trees to 25 feet within 20 feet of the wires, and suggests large shrubs under 15 feet directly under them.

### How many trees or shrubs do I need for a hedge?

Divide the hedge's length by the spacing, round down and add one, since a straight row has one at each end: a 40-foot hedge at 4 feet apart takes 11. On its Hedge or screen list, the finder gives each species the spacing its own page sets.

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).