Plant: Arnold's Columnar - Tuplip Poplar
Tulip Poplar Tree · Liriodendron tulipifera 'Arnold'
Size: 15 gal
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More about this plant
Arnold is a narrow, columnar selection of the native tulip poplar, listed by NCSU at about 25 feet tall and only 8 feet wide, which puts a native flowering shade tree into a space the species could never occupy. In May and June it carries the same cup shaped upright fragrant yellow flowers with six petals and reddish orange bands at the base. The large four lobed leaves with a broad truncated tip turn golden yellow in fall. It wants full sun and an acid, well drained loam that stays moist, and it is a larval host for eastern tiger swallowtail, spicebush swallowtail and viceroy butterflies as well as a nectar source for hummingbirds and bees.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 25 ft tall and 8 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-9
- Deciduous foliage
- Native plant
Plant description
Arnold is a narrow, columnar selection of the native tulip poplar, listed by NCSU at about 25 feet tall and only 8 feet wide, which puts a native flowering shade tree into a space the species could never occupy. In May and June it carries the same cup shaped upright fragrant yellow flowers with six petals and reddish orange bands at the base. The large four lobed leaves with a broad truncated tip turn golden yellow in fall. It wants full sun and an acid, well drained loam that stays moist, and it is a larval host for eastern tiger swallowtail, spicebush swallowtail and viceroy butterflies as well as a nectar source for hummingbirds and bees.
- Flowers
- Cup shaped, upright, fragrant yellow flowers in May and June with six green to yellow petals in two rows and reddish orange bands near the base.
- Foliage
- Alternate, simple, pinnately veined leaves 5 to 6 inches long with four main lobes and a broad truncated apical lobe.
- Native range
- Species native from southern Ontario through the north central and eastern United States
