Plants

Cornus × 'Rutgan' [sold as Stellar Pink®]
[Stellar Pink Dogwood]

Stellar Pink is a hybrid between Cornus florida x Cornus kousa, released by Rutgers University. It is a small deciduous tree with a dense, upright habit, noted for having good resistance to anthracnose and dogwood borer.

Shrub/Tree

Cotinus obovatus
[American Smoketree]

Cotinus obovatus can be a large shrub or small tree and is most noted for its extraordinary fall color and fluffy, smoke-like fruiting panicles. It is a tough plant, adapted to poor, rocky, limestone soils.

Shrub/Tree

Cotinus × 'Grace'
[Grace Smokebush]

'Grace' has become a popular cultivar with its purple emerging leaves and giant panicles of smokey, pink flowers. The "flowers" are actually misty fruiting panicles that give the species its name. The fine-textured hairs on the fruit pedicels and peduncles change colors, being best when tinted smoky pink. Can be pruned to low framework each year to promote plant coloration which occurs best on vigorous stems.

Tree

Indiana Native

Crataegus crus-galli
[Cockspur Hawthorn]

The strong horizontal branching is good for softening vertical lines of buildings. The 2-3" thorns can be dangerous, especially around children. Although attractive, some find the small, white flowers malodorous. Fireblight, leaf spot, and cedar-hawthorn rust are among the worst problems to affect this species. Japanese beetles like to feed on hawthorns.

Indiana Native

Tree

Crataegus crus-galli var. inermis 'Cruzam' [sold as Crusader™]
[Crusader Thornless Cockspur Hawthorn]

This variant of Cockspure Hawthorn is a thornless type. The strong horizontal branching is good for softening vertical lines of buildings. Although attractive, some find the small, white flowers malodorous. Fireblight, leaf spot, and cedar-hawthorn rust are among the worst problems to affect this species. Japanese beetles like to feed on hawthorns.

Crataegus crus-galli var. inermis 'Cruzam' [sold as Crusader™]

Tree

Indiana Native

Crataegus mollis
[Downy Hawthorn]

Quite susceptible to cedar-hawthorn rust, with leaves heavily spotted with orange in some years. Rust limits usage in many areas. Large fruit pose a maintenance issue when they drop.

Indiana Native

Tree

Indiana Native

Crataegus phaenopyrum
[Washington Hawthorn]

One of the finest small trees for winter color. The 1-3" thorns can be dangerous, especially around children. Fireblight, leaf spot, and cedar-hawthorn rust are among the worst problems, although more trouble-free than many hawthorns. Japanese beetles like to feed on hawthorns.

Indiana Native

Tree

Indiana Native

Crataegus viridis
[Green Hawthorn]

An attractive small tree with beautiful white flower corymbs and bright red persistent fruits. Very adaptable, although leaves are often badly infected by rust so that the entire plant appears to be suffering from the measles.

Indiana Native

Tree

Crataegus viridis 'Winter King'
[Winter King Green Hawthorn]

An attractive, nearly thornless vase-shaped small tree with beautiful white flower corymbs and large, bright red persistent fruits. This cultivar was discovered in a fence row by Bob Simpson in Vincennes, Indiana. Very adaptable, although leaves are often badly infected by rust so that the entire plant appears to be suffering from the measles.

Tree

Crataegus × lavalleei
[Lavalle Hawthorn]

The Lavalle Hawthorn is a small, rounded tree that resulted from a cross of Crataegus mexicana and C. crusgalli. Quite resistant to rust and less thorny than its Cockspur Hawthorn parent.