| Scientific Name: | Cercis canadensis |
| Common Name: | redbud |
| Family Name: | Fabaceae |
| Origin: | Canada - eastern, U.S. - northeast |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Cut flower or foliage, Group or mass planting, Small garden/space, Specimen plant, Street (boulevard tree), Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Orbicular, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, Pink, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Legume, Brown, Jun-Jul |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Low, horizontal branching; leaves alternate, heart-shaped (broadly ovate-orbicular, base cordate), point downward, most blades 8-15cm long x 7-12cm wide, margin entire, light green undersides; flowers clustered, bright pink, pea-like, on trunk and older branches as well as on new wood. Winter ID: twigs zigzag; lateral buds 2-3mm dark (terminal bud smaller or appears absent), flower buds larger, globular in axils with leaf buds, especially on older twigs. | |