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Byron Native Nursery
Phone: 630.513.5105
Fax: 630.513.5127
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Container Production of Native Plants (mostly)
Our main production is just west of the Aurora IL Airport near Sugar Grove. It's a handy Chicagoland location and everything on this list is available from that site. You can pick up or we can deliver up to 60 plants to you for a $80 minimum or $2.00 per mile whichever is greater.
Call 630-513-5105 or Email gene@byronnursery.com for more details.
Concolor White Fir
Abies concolor
Hardy native fir, lite Blue Green Foilage
5 gallon 15"
$15
$15Amur Maple
Acer ginnala
Pretty red leaves in fall, nice shrub, small tree
5 gallon 3-4' clump $12
Red Maple
Acer rubrum
The native red maple from a northern seed source.
5 gallon 3' $12
$12Sugar maple
Acer sacharum
Beautiful fall color native Tree
4 gallon 30"$10
$10Silver Maple
Acer Sacharinnum
Native Tree with fast growing
4 gallon 30"$10
$10Ohio Buckeye
Aesculus glabra
Stately rounded tree with chestnuts
5 gallon 3-4' $12
$12Juneberry - Saskatoon Serviceberry
Amelanchier alnifolia
Good plant for wildlife fruit
5 gal 2-3' $12
$12Serviceberry
Amelanchier canadensis
Grows in semi shade of the forest floor
3' Clump $12
$12 False Indigo
Amorpha fruticosa
Dry or wet, this is a great shrub, pinnated leaves. Purple spike flowers. Quail habitat.
4 gallon 3' $10
$10Red Chokeberry
Aronia brilliantissima
Nice plant that puts on a nice show in the fall with red fruit and colorful foilage
5 gal 24-30" $12
$12Black Chokeberry
Aronia melanocarpa
Hardy native with wildlife berries and colorful fall foilage
5 gal 24" $12
$12River Birch
Betual nigra
Native River Birch, grows native far north.
5 gal 4-5' $12
$12Sweetshrub
Calycanthus floridus
Fragrant early spring flowering native shrub
5 gal 2-3' $10
$10Northern Hackberry
Celtis occidentalis
Strong tree with elm like character
5 gal 4' $12
$12Buttonbush
Cephalanthus occidentalis
Edge of water native with fragrant flowers. Attractive shrub.
5 galllon 24" $12
$12Redbud
Cercis canadensis
My favorite spring flowering native tree. Northern grown.
2' 3 gallon $10
$10Pagoda Dogwood
Cornus alternifolia
Orderly wet loving shade tolerant small tree
15-18" 5 gal $9
$9Silky Dogwood
Cornus amomum
Rich dark purple stems make this a colorful shrub. Wet lands specialty
5 gal 24 " $10
$10Gray Dogwood
Cornus racemosa
Wetland shrub. Beautiful fall foliage.
5 gallon 3-4' $10
$10Round Leaf Dogwood
Cornus rugosa
Small tree of large shrub, drought tolerant upland shrub.
5 gallon 18-24" $10
Red Osier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
Bright Red Dogwood stems in winter
5 gal 30' $10
$10American Filbert (Hazelnut)
Corylus americana
Attractive in fall, nut producing, needs pollenator
2' 5 gal $12
$12Peking Cotoneaster
Cotoneaster acutifolia
Not native but a nice formal glossy shrub
4 Gal 24-30" $12
$12Cockspur Hawthorn
Crateagus crusgali
Thorny version of fine native shrub
4 Gallon 30" $12
$12Washington Hawthorne
Cratageus phaenounum
Beautiful upright plant with red berries in fall and fall color
4 Gallon 24-30"$10
$10Dwarf Burning Bush
Euonymus alatus Compacta
Commonly used red leaf plant in the fall
5 gal 30" $12
$12Strawberry Bush Bursting Hearts
Euonymus americanus
Wetland shrub with beautiful fruit, hence the name.
Zone 5b
3 gal 18-24" $12
$12Meadowlark Forsythia
Forsythia X Meadowlark
Very Hardy yellow flowering shrub
3 gallon 36" $12
$12Spring Flowering Witchhazel
Hamamelis vernalis
Pretty fragrant shrub. Flowers first in spring.
5 gallon 3' $14
$14Fall Flowering Witchhazel
Hamamelis virginiana
Last plant flowering in the fall. Drought tolerant plant.
4 gallon 24' $12
$12Winterberry, Decidous Holly
Ilex verticillata
Fairly non descrip until winter. Then glorious red berries used in decoration for christmas. Needs male and female. Buy several.
4 gallon 2-3' $12
$12Eastern Red Cedar
Juniperus virginiana
Dryland native juniper.
5 gal 15-18" $12
$12Amur River North Privet
Ligustrum amurense
Hedge Plant, favorite
4 gal 24-30"$12
$12Spicebush
Lindera benzion
Native shrub with yellow flowers and fragrant foilage.
5 gal 2-3' $12
$12Tulip Tree Tulip Poplar
Liriodendron tulipifera
Fast Growing tree with Green Tulip shaped flowers. Pretty
4 gal 3' $12
$12Freedom Honeysuckle
Lonicera x 'Freedom'
Hybrid Disease resistant honeysuckle bush with blue leaves. Very dense, will hedge into a dense impossible to penetrate living fence.
3 gal 4' $12
$12Midwestern Flowering Crabapples
Malus baccata Manchurica
White flowering, pretty in spring
5 gal 2-3' $10
$10 Other flowering Crabs available at the same price
Dolgo, Thunderchild Seedlings
Virginia Creeper
Parthenocissus virginiana
Vine that is pretty spring summer and in fall for sure
3 gal $6
$6Native Mockorange
Fragrant white flowering shrub native to North America... Nice, fragrant, pretty, rare
4 gal 18+24"$8
$8Minnesota Snowflake Mock Orange
Philadelphus virginalis
Forifourous white flowering sweet smelling shrub, hardy.
3 gal 36"$12
$12Eastern Ninebark
Physocarpus opulifolius
Spring Flowers, but very effective fall color
3' 5 gal $12
$12Colorado Blue Spruce
Picea pungens
Spruce to line out or for a specimen in your yard
5 gal 2' $10
$10American Sycamore
Platanus occidentalis
Interesting shade tree. Fast growing.
5 gal 3' $12
$12Quaking Aspen
Populus tremuloides
One of my favorite clump trees. Makes a nice display when combined with others in a native planting
5 gal 4-5' $12
$125 gal 3' Clump $12
$12Siouxland Cottonwood
Populus deltoides
Fast Growing Instant Shade Tree
4-5' 5 gal $12
$12Pontentilla
Potentilla fruticosa
Pink, White and Yellow flowering available. Nice Plants
3 gal 18-24"$10
$10Hoptree
Use as a small tree. Pretty and hardy and attractive three season tree.
5 gal 3' $12
$12American Plum
Prunus americana
Fruit and Flower from this old standby
5 gal 24" tree form $12
$12Western Sand Cherry
The Fruit from this treasure is good to eat and it stays compact. AKA Prunus pumila
5 gal 18-24" $12
$12Purple Flowering Mayday Tree
Very purple non suckering cherry tree with flowers but the big thing is the purple flowers.
7 gal$16
$16Pin Cherry - Fire Cherry
Tough old cherry good to feed the birds. Grows anywhere
5 gal 3' $10
$10Black Cherry - Rum Cherry
Prunus serotina
Sometimes called rum cherry for it's rich taste
5 gal 18-24' $12
$12Nanking Cherry
Prunus tomentosa
Non Native, excellent fruit producer
5 gallon 18' $12
$12Native Chokecherry
Prunus virginiana
I have always been a chokecherry fan, syrup, jelly and other things
5 gal 3-4' $12
$12Purple Leaf Chokecherry
Prunus virginiana Schubert
This colorful purple addition to any yard is hard to beat
4 gal 3-4' $12
$12White Oak
Quercus alba
Native Oak, state tree of IL
4 gal 2'$10
$10Swamp White Oak
Quercus bicolor
Wet loving tree, grows almost anywhere. Native to IL
4 gal 2'$10
$10Bur Oak
Quercus macrocarpa
Fast growing oak, nice and formal
5 gal 3-4' $12
$12Chinkapin Oak
Very nice white oak type, colorful in fall
5 gal 2-3' $12
$12Pin Oak
Quercus paulustris
This native to Illinois is orderly and beautiful in fall.
4 gal 3'$12
$12Northern Red Oak
Quercus rubra
Very nice fall color to this native red oak shade tree.
5 gal 3-4' $12
$12Golden Clove Currant
Clove Fragrant flowers. Nice to look at and bears much fruit.
5 gal 24" $10
$10Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
This is not the grow low, this is the upright form with great fall color and aromatic leaves, 6' tall at peak
5 gal 24-36" $10
$10Smooth Sumac
Rhus glabra
Only gets about 6' tall, fall color, good colonizer
5 gal 24-36" $10
$10Staghorn Sumac
Rhus typhina
This is the fuzzy one, gets big, nice plant, can be small tree
5 gal 24-36" $12
$12Black Locust
This native tree is coming into it's own. Can be thorny. Nice shape.
4 gal 4-5' $12
$12Carolina Prairie Rose
Rosa carolina
This native praire shrub has stays smaller than many. Pink double flowers. Can take difficult conditions.
5 gal 24" $12
$12Peachleaf Willow
Salix amygdeloides
Nice formal small tree or large shrub. Pretty
5 gallon 5' $12
$12Pussy Willow
Salix discolor
Fuzzy little catkins in the spring, harbinger of warm weather
5 gal 24" $12
$12Black Willow
Shade tree with Character. Good in wet conditions.
5 gal 3-4' $12
$12Native Riverbank Willow
Red stems, good bank stabilizer
5 gallon 3' $12
$12American Elderberry
Sambucus canadensis
Very popular plant with white umbels that bear purple fruits
5 gal 18-24" shrub $12
$12Buffaloberry
Plant that loves full sun and little rain, Industrial fruit producer
5 gal 36-40" $10
$10Spirea assorted
Spirea bumulda
Goldflame, Gold Mound, Little Princess. Snowmound
3 gal 18"$11
$11Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
Shade Tolerant plant with white berries in season
4 gal 24" $12
$12Western Snowberry
Symphoricarpos occidentalis
Semi Shade drought tolerant colonizing plant with white berries proported to have medicinal value.
5 gallon 24" $12
$12Indian Current – Coral Berry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus
Shade loving plant with rich garnets in fall
5 gallon 24-30" $12
$12Canadian Lilac
Syringia prestonii
Pink, Purple and White Late Flowering Shrub.
3 gal 36"$12
$12Miss Kim Lilac
Syringia meyeri
Korean Lilac, Purple Flowers, semi dwarf.
3 gal 30"$12
$12Peking (Chinese or Korean)Tree Lilac
A later white flowering lilac that makes a nice shrub or a small tree
4 gallon 30' $12
$12Japanese Tree Lilac
Syringa reticulata
White Flowering tree or shrubs
4 gallon 24" $12
$12Common Purple Lilac
Syringa vulgaris
This is the old fashioned purple lilac we all remember
4 gallon 15-18" $12
$12Bald Cypress
Taxodium distichum
Wet loving Illinois Native fast growing
5 gal 2' $12
$12American Linden or Basswood
Tilia americana
Desirable tree that flowers with tremendous fragrance
5 gallon 3' $12
$12Canadian Hemlock
Tsuga canadensis
Shade tolerant evergreen fine lacy leaves
5 gal 24" $12
$12Nannyberry
Viburnum lentago
The fall color on this larger shrub is exceptional.
5 gal 30' $12
$12Arrowwood Viburnum
Viburnum dentatum
With the fall color, spring flowers and all summer green a very popular plant
5 gal 30" $10
$10Blackhaw Viburnum
Viburnum prunifolium
One of my favorite shrubs or small tree. Slow growing.
5 gal 36" $14
$14American Cranberry
Viburnum trilobum
A real cranberry. I like this plant for more reasons that I want to explain. Plant it you'll like it.
5 gal 24-30" $12
Doublefile Viburnum
Viburnum tomentosa
White Flowering Colorful Shrub
4 gal 30" $12
$12Koreanspice Viburnum
Viburnum x Carlesii
Beautiful and Fragrant in the spring
4 gal 24"$12
$12Riverbank Wild Grape
Vitis riparia
Small vining grape fruiting plant native to most of the USA
2 gal $6
$6