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    • Getting Started
    • Step 1: Identifying Native Plants
    • Step 2: Recognizing Non-Native Invasives
    • Step 3: Adding Habitat Corridors
  • The Nursery
    • About the Nursery
    • Site Consultations
    • Our Newsletter
  • Our Plants
    • Our Plants
    • Habitat Corridor Plug Trays
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American Sycamore
Platanus occidentalis

Height: 75-100 ft
Spread: 75-100 ft
Bloom Time: April-May
Sunlight: Full Sun to Part Shade
Soil Moisture: Wet, Moist, Medium

American Sycamore is a fast-growing tree with notable multicolored bark of gray, brown, and green that exfoliates to show the white inner bark. It can reach heights of 75 to 100 feet and prefers all but the driest of soils. In September-November, balls containing the seeds delicately hang from the branches. Chickadees, American Goldfinches, and other birds feed upon these seeds. Deer Resistant.​

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