Thunderchild Crab Apple (Malus thunderchild):  The Thunderchild Crab has single, delicate pink to rose buds, with the flowers turning white with age.  Is is a compact, upright spreading tree with deep purple leaves.  It is 15 to 25 feet at maturity.  The flowers can be white, pink, carmine, red or rose.  The fruit is dark red to purple in color.  This crab apple is very resistant to fire blight.

Amur Maple (Acer ginnala): A tall shrub or small tree native to northern Asia.  Subject to chlorosis on heavy alkaline soils, and susceptible to 2, 4-D injury.  Popular as a small, multi-stemmed specimen tree.  Outstanding bright reddish fall colors are influenced by soil conditions and the cultivar grown.  The largest tree in North Dakota is 22 feet tall with a canopy spread of 30 feet.

American Basswood (Tiliaceae americana):  A medium to large tree native east of the Missouri River in North Dakota.  Desirable as a landscape tree for its large stature, shade and aromatic flowers.  Fruit with attached pale-green bract, gives tree a two-tone appearance in late summer.  The largest tree in North Dakota is 75 feet tall with a canopy spread of 64 feet.

Shubert Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana):  This small suckering hardy tree or large shrub is native throughout North Dakota.  Purple-leaved selections are popular landscape plants.  Fruits commonly used for jellies and jams.  The largest tree form in North Dakota and are 41 feet tall with a canopy spread of 28 feet.

Fall Gold Ash (Fraxinus nigra):  Fallgold is a vigorous, medium sized tree.  Develops a fairly narrow, open crown.  The bark is scaly and flaky, not ridged and furrowed.  It is found naturally in places such as wet woods, and stream banks.  Has long lasting golden-yellow fall foliage, bears no fruit, tolerates wet areas, otherwise does not have wide application as a landscape plant.  Native from Newfoundland to Manitoba, south to Virginia and Iowa.  Introdued in 1800.

Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum): A medium to large tree with spreading branches forming a variably rounded to informally spreading crown.  A fast-growing tree subject to iron and manganese chlorosis on high pH soils which may cause dieback or eventual death.  Often called soft maple because the wood is the softest of the maples used for lumber.  The largest tree in North Dakota is 66 feet tall with a canopy spread of 72 feet.

Manchurian Ash (Fraxinus mandshurica):  A medium to large tree similar to the native Black Ash in leaf characteristics.  Has a slightly lower moisture requirement than black ash.  Produces a very dense, oval to rounded, shapely crown.  One year twigs are golden colored.  Lacy-textured foliage.  The largest tree tree in North Dakota is 37 feet tall with a canopy spread of 25 feet.

Trembling Aspen (Populus tremuloides):  Trembling Aspen is also know as Quaking Aspen, Quivering Aspen, Golden Aspen, Mountain Aspen, Trembling Poplar.  Some native peoples called Trembling Aspen “noisy leaf”.  The leaves quiver or tremble at the slightest breeze.  Trembling Aspen can sprout from root suckers.  They are quick growing but short lived (around 50 years).  Trembling Aspen provide food for the beaver, moose, elk and deer, nesting in rotten trunks for birds.  Trembling Aspen grow up to 25 metres tall and produce tiny, down-covered capsules, full of seeds.