| Scientific Name: | Tilia cordata |
| Common Name: | little leaf linden, small-leaved linden |
| Family Name: | Malvaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Medicinal plant, Specimen plant, Street (boulevard tree), Wind break |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Lobed, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Pubescent, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Cyme, Yellow, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, broadly ovate, most blades 3-10cm long x 3-9cm wide (juvenile foliage larger), tip acuminate to caudate, base cordate, uneven, margins serrate, upper surface glabrous, dark green/blue-green underneath, some pubescence along veins, petioles 3-4cm long; flowers pale yellow, 1-1.5cm wide, June; nutlets oval, ~6mm wide, bract ~8cm long x 1.5cm wide. Winter ID: mature bark ridged; twigs zig-zagged, buds ovoid, most 4-6mm long, plump, reddish-light brown, off-centred; fallen yellow leaves or nutlets. | |