Description

* Quantities of 1 are equal to 1 bundle of 25 trees *

• Bare root seedling, 6″-12″

• Deciduous shrub

• Height: 40 to 60 feet or more

• Width: 10 to 20 feet

• Fast growth rate

• Broad, rounded, mounded form

• Clusters of small, 4-petaled, white flowers in mid-May to June; the second bloom occurs in July and August

• Small, round, white to pale blue berries July through September

• Fall foliage is red-purple

• Hardiness zone: 2 to 7

• Sun to part shade

• Adaptable to sandy, loam, or clay soils

• Average to wet soil; drought tolerant

• Adaptable to very poor to well-drained soils; soil compaction tolerant

• Soil pH: 6.1 to 8.5; have your soil tested by the U of M Soil Testing Lab

Straight, upright trunk extending to top of tree; spreading or ascending branches; height 40′ to 70′, diameter 14″ to 24″. Needlelike, flat, soft, slender, length about 1″; borne in clusters on spurlike branches and distributed singly on terminal shoots; bright green in spring, turning dull yellow in September or October just before falling. Tamarack is the only conifer in Minnesota that sheds all its leaves each fall. Found mainly in the swamps in the coniferous forest region of northern Minnesota.

*Quantities of 1 are equal to bundles of 25.