Northern Catalpa

Cost: $10 per tree
Size: 3-4'
Habitat: Prefers wet areas/Full sun

Northern Catalpa (Catalpa speciosa)

Type:  Deciduous

Typical Mature Height:  Northern catalpa is a 75-100 ft., deciduous tree with a narrow, oval crown

Light Requirement:  Partial shade to full sunlight

Soils:  Deep, rich, moist soils.

Habitat: moist, lowland woods, roadsides, waste places, uplands

Wildlife:  special value to honey bees

Uses:  Large, showy, white to lavender, bell-shaped flowers with frilled rims occur in heavy, upright clusters at the outer ends of the branches. Flowers up to 2 inches long by 2 inches wide, petals white with yellow streaks and purplish spots inside, fused about half their length and flaring into 2 unequal lips, the smaller 2 lobed, the larger 3 lobed; in open clusters. Fruit a long, narrow pod up to 18 inches in length by 1/2 inch in width persisting through winter.