AVAILABLE FALL 2024! Yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea)

AVAILABLE FALL 2024! Yellowwood (Cladrastis kentukea)

$22.00
  • Sun: full sun or part shade

  • Soil: well draining, moist but tolerant of sandy drier soils as well

  • Growth rate: slow (<1 ft/year)

  • Mature height: 30-45 ft tall

  • Mature spread: 40-45 ft wide

  • Landscape use: pollinator garden, urban park, neighborhood, ornamental

  • Fruit: showy flat brown/yellow seed pods that hang down in late summer

  • Flowers: hanging panicles of white flowers

  • Fall color: yellow/orange

  • Planting notes: known for being tolerant of high pH and dry soil

  • Seasonal interest: 4 seasons of interest with flowers, fruit, fall leaf color, and mature smooth gray bark (like American Beech)

  • Supporting wildlife: Provides nesting sites for songbirds, high quality pollen and nectar for bees and other pollinators. Pollinated by bees. Host plant of the Locust Leaf Miner (beetle)

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