Great Plants for Fall Color

Great Plants for Fall Color

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Trees:

• Aspen - yellow and orange
• Whitespire Birch - bright yellow
• Ohio Buckeye - orange and red
• Maples:
  • Autumn blaze - red
  • Northwoods rubrum - yellows, oranges, reds
  • Fall fiesta sugar maple - orange, red, some yellow
• Red Oak - scarlet red to brownish red, leaves stay on trees through winter
• Serviceberry - red and orange
• Nannyberry - red
• Blue Beech - fiery red orange
• Showy Mountain Ash - yellow to red, bright orange fruit will stay on tree through late fall
• Redbud - yellow
• Larch - yellow

Shrubs:

• Barberry - various
• Black Chokeberry - red and orange
• Dogwood - reddish purple
• Hydrangea - flowers
• Hedge Cotoneaster - bright red and orange
• Amber Jubilee Ninebark - orange
• Miss Kim Lilac - plum
• Serviceberry - red and orange
• Smokebush - red, orange, and purple
• Spirea (Pink Sparkler, Snowmound, Tor Birchleaf) - various
• Sumac - reds, oranges
• Viburnum (Nannyberry, Arrowwood, American Cranberry) - reds, purples
• Witch hazel - red, yellow, and orange shades, very late season yellow bloom
• Hazelnut - yellows, oranges, reds
• Blueberry - red

Perennials and Vines:

• Amsonia - yellow foliage
• Aster - various colored flowers
• Chelone - pink or white flowers
• Sedum - pink flowers
• Rudbeckia - yellow flowers
• Ornamental Perennial Grasses - various seed heads and leaf color
• Bergenia - red foliage
• Geranium - red foliage
• Russian Sage - purple flowers
• Coral Bells - various foliage colors
• Foamy Bells - red
• Virginia Creeper - bright red
• American Bittersweet - bright orange berries