Athens City Code
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Contents22-21 Street Tree Species To Be Planted
22-21 Street Tree Species To Be Planted
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The following list constitutes the official street tree species for the city. No species other than those included in this list may be planted as street trees without written permission of the city public works director or his or her designee.
Small Trees | Medium Trees | Large Trees |
Flowering dogwood | Red oak (southern, northern, scarlet, pin, willow) | Cottonwood |
Flowering redbud | White oak | Tulip poplar |
Flowering crabapple | Sassafras | Maple (sugar) |
Hawthorn (Washington, cockspur, Lavalle) | Ginkgo | Bald cypress* |
Pear (Bradford, Callery) | Linden | Dawn redwood* |
Japanese flowering cherry | Birch (paper, river) | Yellowwood |
Amur cork tree | Japanese pagoda tree | Sweetgum |
Goldenrain tree | Pine (Eastern white, Austrian, Scotch, Loblolly) | American beech |
Serviceberry | White cedar | Northern catalpa |
Carolina silverbell | Atlas cedar | Pecan |
Russian olive | Green ash | Shagbark hickory |
American hornbeam | Sawtooth oak | Southern magnolia |
Smoke tree | Maple (red, Norway) | Sycamore |
Kwanzan cherry | Hemlock | |
Purpleleaf plum | Spruce (Norway, blue) | |
American holly | Fir (white, Douglas) | |
American arborvitae | ||
Junipers |
*Denotes evergreen trees that lose needles in the fall.
(Code 1972, § 12-607; Code 1995, § 20-507)