Plant Elements of Design
A Plant Selection Program
Woody
Herbaceous
Name:
Balsam Fir
Dwarf Balsam Fir
Concolor Fir
Amur Maple
Bailey Compact Amur Maple
Dwarf Amur Maple
Emerald Elf Amur Maple
Flame Amur Maple
Red Rhapsody Amur Maple
Box Elder
Norway Maple
Oregon Pride Maple
Cleveland Norway Maple
Columnar Norway Maple
Crimson King Maple
Crimson Sentry Maple
Deborah Maple
Emerald Queen Norway Maple
Princeton Gold Maple
Royal Red Maple
Schwedler Maple
Variegated Norway Maple
Red Maple
Autumn Spire Maple
Red Sunset Maple
Firedance Maple
Northwood Maple
Northfire Maple
Schlesinger Maple
Silver Maple
Silver Queen Maple
Skinner's Cutleaf Maple
Sugar Maple
Commemoration Sugar Maple
Green Mountain Sugar Maple
Legacy Sugar Maple
Flax Mill Majesty Sugar Maple
Sweet Shadow Sugar Maple
Tatarian Maple
Norwegian Sunset Maple
Armstrong Maple
Celebration Maple
Autumn Blaze Maple
Scarlet Sentinel Maple
Ohio Buckeye
Horsechestnut
O'Neill Red Horsechestnut
European Alder
Regent Juneberry or Serviceberry
Shadblow Serviceberry
Snowcloud Shadblow Serviceberry
Strata Apple Serviceberry
Bog Rosemary
Massachusetts Bearberry
Dutchman's Pipe
Glossy Black Chokeberry
Korean Barberry
Japanese Green Leaf Barberry
Truehedge Columnar Barberry
Golden Barberry
Ruby Carousel Barberry
Golden Carousel Barberry
Burgundy Carousel Barberry
Bonanza Gold Barberry
Golden Ring Barberry
Sparkle Barberry
Thornless Japanese Barberry
Japanese Red Leaf Barberry
Crimson Pygmy Barberry
Emerald Carousel Barberry
Cut Leaf Weeping Birch or Sweet Birch
River Birch
Heritage Birch
Water Birch
Paper Birch
European White Birch
Cut Leaf Weeping Birch
Purple Rain Birch
Young's Weeping Birch
Japanese White Birch
Crimson Frost Birch
Korean Littleleaf or Wintergreen Boxwood
Trumpetcreeper
Siberian Peashrub
Weeping Caragana or Weeping Siberian Peashrub
Walker Weeping Caragana or Peashrub
Russian Peashrub
Globe Caragana or Globe Russian Peashrub
Pygmy Peashrub
Northern Catalpa
Bittersweet
Common Hackberry
Buttonbush
Redbud (Minnesota Strain)
Boulevard Falsecypress
Threadleaf Falsecypress
Swamp Falsecypress
Dwarf Threadleaf Falsecypress
King's Gold Falsecypress
Atlantic Whitecedar or Heather Bun
White Fringetree
American Yellowwood
Jackmani Clematis
Ernest Markham Clematis
Henryi Clematis
Nelly Moser Clematis
Paniculata Clematis
Hummingbird Clethra
Summersweet Clethra
Pink Spires Clethra
Rosea Clethra
Variegated Tatarian Dogwood
Ivory Halo Dogwood
Bud's Yellow Dogwood
Mottled Dogwood
Pagoda Dogwood
Variegated Dogwood
Golden Glory Dogwood
Gray Dogwood
Cardinal Redosier Dogwood
Yellow Twigged Dogwood
Isanti Redosier Dogwood
Silver and Gold Dogwood
Colorado Redosier Dogwood
American Hazelnut
Harry Lauder's Walkingstick
Common Smokebush
Royal Purple Smokebush
American Smoketree
Peking Cotoneaster
Cranberry Cotoneaster
Spreading Cotoneaster
Hedge Cotoneaster
Russian Hawthorn
Thornless Cockspur Hawthorn
Crusader Thornless Cockspur Hawthorn
Crimson Cloud Hawthorn
Washington Hawthorn
Snowbird Hawthorn
Carol Mackie Daphne
Somerset Daphne
Russian Olive
Silverberry
Autumn Olive
Winged Euonymus
Dwarf Winged Euonymus
Tures Winged Euonymus
Aldenham European Euonymus
Canadale Gold Euonymus
Greenlane Euonymus
Vermont Sun Forsythia
Sunrise Forsythia
White Ash
Autumn Blaze White Ash
Autumn Purple Ash
Green Ash
Bergeson Ash
Prairie Dome Ash
Marshall's Seedless Ash
Newport Ash
Summit Ash
Royal Gold Woadwaxen
Ginkgo
Autumn Gold Ginkgo
Sentry Ginkgo
Thornless Honeylocust
Summer Lace Honeylocust
Imperial Honeylocust
Shademaster Honeylocust
Skyline Honeylocust
Sunburst Honeylocust
Statley Manor Kentucky Coffeetree
Kentucky Coffeetree
Vernal Witchhazel
Witchhazel
Sea Buckthorn
Sprite Sea Buckthorn
Annabelle Hydrangea
Snowhill Hydrangea
Peegee Hydrangea
Late Panicle Hydrangea
Unique PeeGee Hydrangea
Kalm's St. John's-wort
Nordic Holly or Inkberry
Shamrock Holly or Inkberry
Afterglow Winterberry
Early Male Winterberry
Jim Dandy Winterberry
Late Male Winterberry
Red Sprite Winterberry
Southern Gentlemen Winterberry
Winter Red Winterberry
Black Walnut
Gold Lace Juniper
Gold Star Juniper
Maney Juniper
Mint Julep Juniper; Sea Green Juniper
Old Gold Juniper
Pfitzer Juniper
Ramlosa Juniper
Sargent Green Juniper
Blueberry Delight Juniper
Blue Chip Juniper
Prairie Elegance Juniper
Hughes Juniper
Andorra Youngstown Juniper
Prince of Wales Juniper
Webber Juniper
Wilton Carpet Juniper; Blue Rug Juniper
Japgarden Juniper
Arcadia Juniper
Broadmoor Juniper
Buffalo Juniper
Calgary Carpet Juniper; Mini Arcade Juniper
Moor-Dense Juniper
Scandia Juniper
Blue Trail Rocky Mountain Juniper
Sutherland Rocky Mountain Juniper
Blue Star Juniper
Grey Owl Juniper
European Larch
Japanese Larch
American Larch
Cheyenne Privet
Lodense Privet
Golden Privet
Tulip Tree
Everblooming Honeysuckle
Sakhalin Honeysuckle
Arnold Red Honeysuckle
Dropmore Scarlet Honeysuckle
Honey Rose Honeysuckle
Miniglobe Honeysuckle
Clavey's Dwarf Honeysuckle
Emerald Mound Honeysuckle
Amur Maackia
Star Magnolia
Royal Star Magnolia
Merrill Magnolia
Creeping Mahonia
Adirondack Crabapple
Siberian Column Crabapple
Brandywine Crabapple
Camelot Crabapple
Cardinal Crabapple
White Cascade Crabapple
Coralburst Crabapple
Dolgo Crabapple
Donald Wyman Crabapple
Flame Crabapple
Japanese Flowering Crabapple
Guinevere Crabapple
Harvest Gold Crabapple
Hopa Crabapple
Indian Summer Crabapple
Jewelberry Crabapple
Kelsey Crabapple
Lancelot Crabapple
Liset Crabapple
Louisa Crabapple
Mary Potter Crabapple
Madonna Crabapple
Narragansett Crabapple
Ormiston Roy Crabapple
Pink Spires Crabapple
Prairifire Crabapple
Profusion Crabapple
Radiant Crabapple
Red Baron Crabapple
Red Jade Crabapple
Red Splendor Crabapple
Robinson Crabapple
Royalty Crabapple
Sargent Crabapple
Selkirk Crabapple
Snowdrift Crabapple
Sparkler Crabapple
Spring Snow Crabapple
Strawberry Parfait Crab
Sugar Tyme Crabapple
Thunderchild Crabapple
Tina Crabapple
Vanguard Crabapple
Victorian Crabapple
Redbud Crabapple
Russian Arborvitae; Northern Pride Microbiota
Russian Mulberry
Bayberry
Ironwood
Virginia Creeper, Engleman Ivy; Woodbine
Boston Ivy; Japanese Creeper
Amur Corktree
His Majesty Amur Corktree
Macho Amur Corktree
Sweet Mockorange
Golden Mockorange
Lewis Mockorange
Buckley's Quill Mockorange
Lemoine Mockorange
Miniature Snowflake Mockorange
Virginal Mockorange
Minnesota Snowflake Mockorange
Common Ninebark
Goldleaf Ninebark
Dart's Gold Ninebark
Golden Ninebark
Dwarf Ninebark
Nugget Ninebark
Snowfall Ninebark
Norway Spruce
Bird's Nest Spruce
Weeping Norway Spruce
Dwarf Norway Spruce
White Spruce
Black Hills Spruce
Blue Nest Spruce
Serbian Spruce
Colorado Green Spruce
Colorado Blue Spruce
Dwarf Blue Spruce
Prostrate Colorado Spruce or Procumbens Spruce
Swiss Stone Pine
Korean Pine
Mops Mugo
Mugo Pine
Austrian Pine
Globe Austrian Pine
Ponderosa Pine
Morel Red Pine
Scotch Pine
Albyn Prostrata Scotch Pine
Hillside Creeper Scotch Pine
Bolleana Poplar
Narrow Leaf Poplar
Siouxland Poplar or Siouxland Cottonwood
Bigtooth Aspen
Highland Poplar
Japanese Poplar
Lombardy Poplar
Theve's Poplar
Sargent Poplar
Quaking Aspen
Lanceleaf Cottonwood
Nor'easter Poplar
Tower Poplar
Robusta Poplar
Abbotswood Potentilla
Dakota Goldrush Potentilla
Coronation Triumph Potentilla
Dakota Sunspot Potentilla
Gold Drop Potentilla
Goldfinger Potentilla
Jackmans Potentilla
Longacre Potentilla
McKay's White Potentilla
Mt. Everest Potentilla
Primrose Beauty Potentilla
Snowbird Potentilla
Vilmorin Potentilla
Yellow Gem Potentilla
American Plum
Western Sand Cherry
Dwarf Flowering Almond
Pink Flowering Almond
Amur Chokecherry
Beach Plum
Princess Kay Plum
Pin Cherry
Black Cherry
Nanking Cherry
Flowering Almond
Double Flowering Plum or Rose Tree of China
Canada Red Cherry
Purpleleaf Sandcherry
Newport Purpleleaf Plum
Douglas Fir
Prairie Gem Pear
Swamp White Oak
Scarlet Oak
Pin Oak
English Oak
Red Oak
Aglo Rhododendron
April White Rhododendron
Golden Lights Azalea
Henry's Red Rhododendron
Northern Hi-Lights Azalea
Northern Lights Azalea
Orchid Lights Azalea
PJM Rhododendron
Rosy Lights Azalea
Spicy Lights Azalea
Swamp Azalea
White Lights Azalea
Azalea Mollis
Fragrant Sumac
Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
Smooth Sumac
Cutleaf Smooth Sumac
Skunkbush Sumac
Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac
Staghorn Sumac
Alpine Currant
Green Mound Alpine Currant
Yellow Flowering Currant
Clove Currant
Frisia Black Locust
Purple Robe Black Robinia
Globe Locust
William Baffin Shrub Rose
Alex MacKenzie Rose
Bonica Shrub Rose
Carefree Beauty Shrub Rose
Carefree Delight Shrub Rose
Champlain Shrub Rose
Charles Albanel Rose
Chuckles Shrub Rose
David Thompson Rose
Harison's Yellow Shrub Rose
Henry Hudson Rose
Henry Kelsey Rose
John Cabot Rose
Meidiland Red Shrub Rose
Morden Blush Rose
Morden Centennial Rose
Nearly Wild Shrub Rose
Persian Yellow Shrub Rose
Rugosa Rose
F. J. Grootendorst Rose
Therese Bugnet Shrub Rose
Winnipeg Parks Shrub Rose
Silver Willow
Niobe Weeping Willow or Golden Weeping Willow
Creeping Willow
French Pussywillow
Weeping Pussy Willow
Pussy Willow
Golden Curls Willow
Corkscrew Willow
Laurel Willow
Prairie Cascade Willow
Flame Willow
American Elder
Adams American Elder
Cutleaf American Elder
York Elderberry or York American Elder
Red Berried Elder or Scarlet Elder
Silver Buffaloberry
Ash Leaf Spirea or Ural Falsespirea
Korean Mountainash
European Mountainash
Cardinal Royal Mountainash
Showy Mountainash
Longwood Sunset Mountainash
Oak Leaf Mountainash
Dwarf Garland Spirea
Fritschiana Spirea
Golden Princess Spirea
Dakota Goldcharm Spirea
Neon Flash Spirea
Norman Spirea
Shibori Spirea
Halwards Silver Spirea
Snowmound Spirea
Bridalwreath Spirea
Thunberg Spirea
Fairy Queen Spirea
Anthony Waterer Spirea
Dart's Red Spirea
Froebel Spirea
Goldflame Spirea
Gumball Spirea
Goldmound Spirea
Vanhoutte Spirea
Dwarf Vanhoutte Spirea
Renaissance Spirea
Cutleaf Stephanandra
White Snowberry
Red Indian Current or Coralberry
Korean Lilac
Dwarf Korean Lilac
Miss Kim Lilac
Japanese Tree Lilac
Ivory Silk Japanese Tree Lilac
Summer Snow Japanese Tree Lilac
Common Purple Lilac
Common White Lilac
Charles Joly Lilac
Mme. LeMoine Lilac
President Grevy Lilac
Chinese Lilac
Chinese Saugeana Lilac
Royalty Lilac
James McFarlane Lilac
Summer Glow Tamarisk
Japanese Spreading Yew
Japanese Upright Yew
Japanese Dwarf Yew
Densiformis Yew
Nigra Yew
Taunton Yew
Golden Arborvitae
Hetz Midget Arborvitae
Little Giant Arborvitae
Columnar Arborvitae
Techny Arborvitae
Globe Arborvitae
Front Yard Linden
Boulevard Linden
Redmond Linden
Littleleaf Linden
Shamrock Linden
Greenspire Linden
Norlin Linden
Glenleven Linden
Canadian Hemlock
Gracilis Hemlock
Accolade Elm
Lincoln Elm
Vanguard Elm
Cathedral Elm
New Horizon Elm
Regal Elm
Witherod Viburnum
Arrowwood Viburnum
Northern Burgundy Arrowwood Viburnum
Autumn Jazz Viburnum
Wayfaring Shrub or Wayfaringbush Viburnum
Variegated Wayfaringbush Viburnum
Nannyberry
Compact European Cranberrybush Viburnum
Dwarf European Cranberrybush Viburnum
Snowball Viburnum
Blackhaw Viburnum
Sargent Cranberrybush
Onondaga Viburnum
American Cranberrybush Viburnum
Alfredo Compact American Cranberrybush Viburnum
Bailey Compact American Cranberrybush Viburnum
Compact American Cranberrybush Viburnum
Hahs American Cranberrybush Viburnum
Wentworth American Cranberrybush Viburnum
Emerald Triumph Viburnum
Evita Weigela
Minuet Weigela
Pink Delight Weigela
Pink Princess Weigela
Polka Weigela
Java Red Weigela
Red Prince Weigela
Variegated Weigela
Rose Glow Barberry
Blue Beech
Dwarf Bush Honeysuckle
Little Princess Spirea
Japanese White Spirea
Mohican Viburnum
Diablo Ninebark
Meadowlark Forsythia
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(Scientific):
Abies balsamea
Growth:
Medium
Plant Type:
Evergreen tree
Insect:
Spruce Budworm, Sawflies
Height:
60
Spread:
24
Fine
Form:
Pyramidal
Disease:
Texture:
Light:
Full Sun
Flower
Color:
Soil:
Tolerates Acid, Prefers Moist
Seasonal
Interest:
Spring, Fall, Winter
Zones:
3, 4, 5
Seasonal
Interest
Specifics:
Dark green foliage all year
Use:
Specimen Plant
Other:
Prefers cool, moist sites
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