Shade Trees : Maple and Birch Trees

Explore our Plant Catalog to see a sampling of the wide variety of Trees, Evergreens, Shrubs, Perennials, Hostas, Groundcovers and Ornamental Grasses we raise in our nurseries across Wisconsin. If you’d like to order a catalog, simply contact us.

 

 
Autumn Flame Maple

Autumn Flame Maple

Acer rubrum ‘Autumn Flame’

Height: 40’-45’
Spread: 40’
Light: Full Sun

Dense, rounded habit. Foliage
medium green in summer
and brilliant red in fall. Leaves
smaller and color earlier than
the other species. Moist, well
drained soil and slightly acidic.
Ozone tolerant.

Superform Maple

Superform Maple

Acer plantanoides ‘Superform’

Height: 45’
Spread: 35’
Light: Full Sun

Upright oval to oval-rounded
growth habit. Coarsely
branched, fast grower. Dense
dark green foliage in summer
and golden yellow fall color.

Emerald Queen Maple

Emerald Queen Maple

Acer plantanoides ‘Emerald
Queen’

Height: 50’-60’
Spread: 40’-45’
Light: Full Sun

Dense, broad form with ovalrounded outline. Dark glossy green foliage in summer and yellow fall color. Fast growing.

Columnar Norway Maple

Columnar Norway Maple

Acer plantanoides ‘Columnare’

Height: 55’
Spread: 18’
Light: Full Sun

Narrow upright, compact and
dense. Dark green foliage in
summer and yellow fall color.
Useful as a screen tree or ideal
for street tree.

Red Sunset Maple

Red Sunset Maple

Acer rubrum ‘Franksred’

Height: 50’
Spread: 35’
Light: Full Sun

Pyramidal to rounded growth
habit with an upright, dense
branching pattern. Bright green
heavily textured foliage in summer and brilliant orange-red fall colors that are retained long
than others.

Autumn Blaze Maple

Autumn Blaze Maple

Acer freemanii ‘Jeffersred’

Height: 50’-60’
Spread: 40’
Light: Full Sun

Dense, oval-rounded head with
an ascending branch structure
and central leader. Small, rich
green leaf in summer and brilliant orange-red fall color. Grows rapidly.

green mountain sugar maple

Green Mountain Sugar Maple

Acer saccharum ‘Green Mountain’

Height: 60’-75’
Spread: 50’
Light: Full Sun

Broad, upright-oval growth habit.
Slow growing. Waxy dark green
foliage in summer and orangered
fall color. Waxy foliage provides
good scorch resistance.

deborah maple

Deborah Maple

Acer plantanoides ‘Deborah’

Height: 55’
Spread: 50’
Light: Full Sun

Has a broadly ovate growth habit with a straight central leader. New foliage is bright red, turning to a vivid dark green in summer and reddish in fall.

Paperback Maple

Paperbark Maple

Acer griseum

Height: 25’
Spread: 15’
Light: Full Sun

Has an upright, oval to rounded
growth habit. It is a slow growing
tree. Foliage is dark green in
summer and changes to bronzered in fall. Interesting reddish brown exfoliating bark.

Crimson King Maple

Crimson King Maple

Acer platanoides ‘Crimson King’

Height: 35’
Spread: 35’
Light: Full Sun

Dense, rounded form that produces dense shade. Slow growing. Maroon foliage all summer, and brown in fall. Small yellow flowers in spring. Moist, well drained soil.

Royal Red Maple

Royal Red Maple

Acer platanoides ‘Royal Red’

Height: 35’
Spread: 25’
Light: Full Sun

Broadly oval form. Straight trunk
and well shaped head. Slightly
hardier than Crimson King and
slightly slower growing. Dark
maroon foliage all year. Bronzy
fall color.

Flame Amur Maple

Flame Amur Maple

Acer ginnala ‘Flame’

Height: 15’-20’
Spread: 20’
Light: Full Sun

Multi-stemmed large shrub or
small tree often of rounded
outline. Tolerates pruning. Dark
glossy green foliage in summer
and outstanding brilliant red fall
color.

Crimson Queen Maple

Crimson Queen Maple

Acer palmatum ‘Crimson Queen’

Height: 8’-10’
Spread: 10’-20’
Light: Filtered Sun, Protected
Area

Low branching, dwarf tree with
delicate weeping effect. Holds
beautiful crimson color throughout summer before dropping in fall.

Japanese Bloodgood Maple

Japanese Bloodgood Maple

Acer palmatum “Atropurpurem’

Height: 12’-20’
Spread: 15’-20’
Light: Partial Shade

Upright, rounded growth habit.
Foliage is bright red in spring,
maturing to a deep rich purple in
summer. Retains color well even
during the heat of summer.

Whitespire Birch

Whitespire Birch

Betula populifolia ‘Whitespire’

Height: 30’-40’
Spread: 20’-25’
Light: Full Sun

Pyramidal to oval growth habit.
Dark green glossy foliage in
summer and yellow color in fall.
Chalk white exfoliating bark.
Relatively resistant to leaf miner
and birch borer. Likes cool, moist soils.

River / Heritage Birch

River / Heritage Birch

Betula nigra

Height: 40’-50’
Spread: 30’-40’
Light: Full Sun

Wide spreading form at maturity,
pyramidal to oval headed
in youth. Dark green foliage in
summer and yellow color in fall.
Reddish brown exfoliating bark.
Tolerates and reaches maximum growth in wet soils.

Pyramidal Hornbeam

Pyramidal Hornbeam

Carpinus betulus ‘Columnar’

Height: 35’
Spread: 25’
Light: Full Sun

Develops an oval-vase shape
growth habit with distinct fanribbed branches. Dark green
foliage in summer with a slight
yellow color change in fall.

Kentucky Coffee Tree

Kentucky Coffee Tree

Gymnocladus dioicus

Height: 55’
Spread: 40’
Light: Full Sun

Has a narrow crown that broadens with age. New foliage has a pinkish tinge in spring and turns dark bluish green in summer and yellow in fall. Produces leathery pods in October that persist through winter.

Dawn Redwood

Dawn Redwood

Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Height: 70’-100’
Spread: 25’-40’
Light: Full Sun

Pyramidal growth habit. Bright
green foliage in summer and
orange-brown in fall. Bark is
reddish brown and exfoliates in
narrow strips. Cones are cylindrical to globose, 1” long.

Niobe Weeping Willow

Niobe Weeping Willow

Salix alba ‘Tristis’

Height: 50’
Spread: 40’
Light: Full Sun

Produces a broad canopy
of graceful, golden weeping
branches. Often secondary
branches sweep the ground. Foliage is bright green in summer and yellow in fall. Thrives in wet to marsh like areas.