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Great Small Trees for Houston
To celebrate The Garden Club of America's Centennial in 2013, The Garden Club of Houston has created a list of great small trees for Houston. The trees were selected based on three criteria: 1) native to our area and likely to thrive with little maintenance, 2) exceptional beauty and the widest possible range of seasonal interest, and 3) habitat benefits, particularly for birds.Printer Friendly: Species List | List with Images | List with QR Tags to Mobile
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
| Acer leucoderme | Chalk maple | |
| Carpinus caroliniana | American hornbeam Blue beech Musclewood Ironwood | |
| Cercis canadensis | Eastern redbud Redbud | |
| Chionanthus virginicus | White fringetree Fringe tree Grancy Graybeard | |
| Cordia boissieri | Mexican olive Anacahuita Texas wild olive Anacahuite | |
| Crataegus marshallii | Parsley hawthorn | |
| Halesia diptera | Two-wing silverbell Silver bell Two-winged silverbell Snowdrop tree American snowdrop tree | |
| Ilex decidua | Possumhaw Possumhaw Holly Deciduous Holly Winterberry Deciduous yaupon | |
| Ilex opaca | American holly Christmas holly | |
| Ilex vomitoria | Yaupon Yaupon holly Cassina | |
| Magnolia virginiana | Sweetbay Sweetbay magnolia Swampbay Swamp magnolia Small magnolia | |
| Morella cerifera | Wax myrtle Southern bayberry Candleberry | |
| Prunus mexicana | Mexican plum Bigtree plum | |
| Viburnum rufidulum | Rusty blackhaw viburnum Rusty blackhaw Southern blackhaw Downy viburnum | |
| scientific name | common name(s) | image gallery |
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