Blooms in late spring to early summer. Large (nearly one inch) white flowers with yellow and purple spots.
One of the first trees to flower in the early spring, small pea-like flowers give a purple cast to branches of this small tree.
Blooms early to mid-spring. The large white parts of the flowers which appear to be petals, are actually bracts. The flowers are small and inconspicuous in the center of four bracts.
Blooms mid-spring with fragrant white flowers. Hawthorns are often planted as landscape trees.
Ohio Buckeye (Aesculus glabra)
Five leaflets comprise each leaf, coming out from a central point like fingers on a hand. The tree has elaborate yellow flowers tinged with red in the early spring.
(Maclura pomifera)
In late spring
the beginnings of the large ball shaped fruit which in later summer will
develop a convoluted brain-like surface. These fruits have natural
insecticidal properties.
In early spring, inconspicuous wind-pollinated
flowers are produced before the trees leaf out.
--White Oak (Quercus alba)
The state tree of Indiana has yellowish-green tulip-shaped flowers borned in the early summer.
