Status: DFW Regional Champion

  • Oak, Bigelow

  • Oak, Bigelow

    The BIGELOW OAK is often either misconstrued or simply (regionally) named Durand White Oak, shallow-lobed oak, white shin oak, scaly-bark oak, among others. It typically is found as a small to medium-size tree or clump of trees to 40 feet with an irregular crown, often with multiple trunks; may form thickets. A shrubby variety of…

  • Oak, Dwarf Chinquapin

    Quercus prinoides is native to North America. The range may be expanded by planting. Its form is typically a suckering shrub or a small tree to 12 feet, but may reach 20 feet in the wild. It has an irregular crown. Looks like a chestnut oak or chinkapin oak. The DWARF CHINQUAPIN OAK is a…

  • Pine, Pinyon

    The pinyon (or piñon) pine (Pinus edulis) grows in the southwestern United States. The Piñon Pine (Pinus edulis) is a small to medium size tree, reaching 33 – 66 feet tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 31 inches, rarely more. The trees yield edible pinyon nuts, which were a staple of the…

  • Elm, American

  • Buckeye, Texas or White

    The Texas Buckeye is now classified as a western, shrubby variety of Ohio Buckeye reaching its largest size (up to 50 feet) in the hard limestone of the central Edwards Plateau, although it also occurs in the northern Blacklands, Cross Timbers and Prairies, Pineywoods, and Post Oak Savannah. An ideal ornamental specimen for a small…

  • Cedar, Blue Atlas

    Cedrus atlantica, an African transplant, is a medium-sized to large tree, 30–35 m (rarely 40m) tall, with a trunk diameter of 1.5–2 m. It is very similar in all characters to the other varieties of Lebanon Cedar; differences are hard to discern except for this variety ‘Glauca’ which creates the blue color leaves. There is…

  • Cypress, Bald

    The BALD CYPRESS typically grow in swamps which are flooded for prolonged periods, and on wet stream banks and bottomlands. It occurs from East Texas thinning out westward to the Nueces River and also along streams and rivers of Central Texas. The straight trunk has numerous ascending branches, and narrow conical outline. In old age…

  • Oak, Grey

    Quercus grisea, commonly known as the gray oak, shin oak or scrub oak, is a North American species deciduous or evergreen shrub or medium-sized tree in the white oak group. It is native to the mountains of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Gray oaks are large shrubs or small trees reaching a maximum…

  • Maple, Florida

    The Florida Maple is the southeastern relative of the Sugar Maple (which has larger leaves) and is often classed as a variety of that species. The two intergrade where their ranges meet. Unlike Sugar Maples, Florida Maples are not tapped commercially for sugar. The LEAF is opposite, simple, orbicular in shape, 1 1/2 to 3…