Fall Color Chart by Species of Trees and Shrubs on Campus
Key:
§ = Especially Attractive
¤ = Early
° = Not in Natural Areas
* = Shrubs or Vines
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Yellow
Birches (all) ¤
Hickories (all) – ochre
Aspens (Bigtooth red)
Balsam Poplar
Cottonwood (turns brown) ¤
Tulip Tree
Silver Maple
Striped Maple (pale yellow) §
Witch-hazel
Grapes *
Hackberry (pale yellow) °
Elm (turns brown)
Hop Hornbeam
Ginkgo °
Honey Locust °
American Chestnut
Green Ash §¤°
White Ash (turns purple) ¤
Black Cherry (turns orange)
Kentucky Coffee Tree (gold) ° -
Red
Red Maple (turns yellow) §¤
Virginia Creeper *§¤
Scarlet Oak §
Black-gum §
Staghorn Sumac (also yellow & orange) §¤ -
Orange-yellow (+red)
Poison Ivy §¤
Sassafras §
Sugar Maple §
Some Willows
Flowering Cherry §° -
Maroon
Oaks (except scarlet) (turns red)
Shrubby Dogwood
Blueberries *
Viburnums *
Flowering Pear °
Japanese Maple §° -
Pink with blue
Mapleleaf Viburnum *§¤
Flowering Dogwood § -
Salmon
Fire Cherry §¤
Serviceberry §¤
American Hornbeam (bronzy) §¤ -
Purple
White Ash (turns yellow) §¤
Sweetgum (turns red & yellow) §¤ -
Brown (Chestnut)
American Beech
London Planetree ° -
Little or no color
Basswood
Little Leaf Linden (turns yellow) °
Catalpa °
Box Elder
Walnut (yellow) °
Butternut (yellow)
Hawthorn
Horse Chestnut (turns yellow) °
Apple °
Black Locust
Redbud (turns yellow) °
Norway Maple (turns yellow) °
Most Willows
Day-glo pink
Burningbush *°
