Plant: Forest Pansy - Redbud Tree

Redbud Tree · Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy'

$100.00

Size: 5 gal

Light

Part Shade

Bloom

Spring

Mature size

30 ft tall35 ft wide

More about this plant

<p>The best known purple leaved redbud, reaching 20 to 30 feet tall and 25 to 35 feet wide with a rounded to vase shaped, often multi-trunked frame. Rosy pink-purple pea-like flowers explode from bare twigs in early spring, then reddish-purple heart-shaped leaves emerge and finish the season in red, burgundy, orange and purple. It grows quickly, takes sun or partial shade and clay, loam or sand across a wide pH band, and tolerates black walnut and deer. Flattened brown seedpods follow the flowers and feed squirrels, songbirds and quail. Use it as a specimen, an accent or a small shade tree at a woodland edge. The wood is weak and the thin bark damages easily, so protect the trunk and prune drooping limbs.</p>

Part Shade
Grows to 30 ft tall and 35 ft wide
Blooms in spring
Hardy in USDA zones 5a-9b
Deciduous foliage
Native plant

Plant description

<p>The best known purple leaved redbud, reaching 20 to 30 feet tall and 25 to 35 feet wide with a rounded to vase shaped, often multi-trunked frame. Rosy pink-purple pea-like flowers explode from bare twigs in early spring, then reddish-purple heart-shaped leaves emerge and finish the season in red, burgundy, orange and purple. It grows quickly, takes sun or partial shade and clay, loam or sand across a wide pH band, and tolerates black walnut and deer. Flattened brown seedpods follow the flowers and feed squirrels, songbirds and quail. Use it as a specimen, an accent or a small shade tree at a woodland edge. The wood is weak and the thin bark damages easily, so protect the trunk and prune drooping limbs.</p>

Flowers: Extremely showy rosy pink-purple pea-like flowers explode from the bare twigs in early spring.
Foliage: Deciduous, simple, alternate heart-shaped to nearly round leaves, reddish-purple when young and holding purple tones through the season, papery and waxy to the touch, turning red, burgundy, orange and purple in fall.
Native range: Eastern and central North America