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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.

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Acer leucodermeChalk Maple
Whitebark Maple
Carpinus carolinianaAmerican Hornbeam
Blue Beech
Water Beech
Musclewood
Ironwood
Cercis canadensisEastern Redbud
Redbud
Chionanthus virginicusWhite Fringetree
Fringe Tree
Snowflower Tree
Flowering Ash
Old Man's Beard
Grandfather Graybeard
Grancy Graybeard
Cordia boissieriMexican Olive
Texas Wild Olive
Anacahuita
Anacahuite
Crataegus marshalliiParsley Hawthorn
Parsleyleaf Hawthorn
Halesia dipteraTwo-wing Silverbell
Two-winged Silverbell
Silverbell
American Snowdrop Tree
Snowdrop Tree
Snowbell
Cowlicks
Ilex deciduaPossumhaw
Possumhaw Holly
Deciduous Holly
Meadow Holly
Prairie Holly
Swamp Holly
Welk Holly
Deciduous Yaupon
Bearberry
Winterberry
Ilex opacaAmerican Holly
White Holly
Prickly Holly
Evergreen Holly
Christmas Holly
Yule Holly
Ilex vomitoriaYaupon
Yaupon Holly
Cassina
Magnolia virginianaSweetbay
Sweetbay Magnolia
Southern Sweetbay
Swampbay
Swamp Magnolia
Sweet Magnolia
Small Magnolia
Laurel Magnolia
White Bay
White Laurel
Swamp Laurel
Beaver Tree
Morella ceriferaWax Myrtle
Southern Wax Myrtle
Southern Bayberry
Eastern Bayberry
Bayberry
Candleberry
Tallow Shrub
Prunus mexicanaMexican Plum
Bigtree Plum
Inch Plum
Viburnum rufidulumRusty Blackhaw Viburnum
Rusty Blackhaw
Southern Blackhaw
Blackhaw
Bluehaw
Downy Viburnum
Southern Nannyberry
Rusty Nannyberry
Nannyberry
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