Trees, Shrubs, and Vines with Spectacular Fall Foliage Color

Comprehensive list of woody plants prized for autumn display, organized by type with light requirements.

Trees

Full Sun: Ash, Bald cypress, Birch, Black cherry, Black gum, Black locust, Callery pear, Chinese pistache, Chinese quince, Crape myrtle, Dawn redwood, Edible fig, Grancy graybeard, Hackberry, Hawthorn, Honey locust, Kentucky coffee tree, Larch, Linden, Maidenhair tree, Maple, Oak, Osage orange, Persimmon, Sassafras, Shagbark hickory, Sweet gum, Tulip poplar, Yellow wood, Yoshino flowering cherry

Full Sun to Half Sun: American beech, Beech, Black gum, Carolina silverbell, Flowering dogwood, Franklin tree, Hackberry, Ironwood, Japanese maple, Juneberry, Katsura tree, Mountain ash, Ohio buckeye, Pawpaw, Redbud, Sourwood, Stewartia, Sweet gum, Yulan magnolia

Shrubs

Full Sun to Half Sun: Beautyberry, Bottlebrush buckeye, Chinese jujube, Chokeberry, Cotoneaster, Crape myrtle, Devil's walking stick, Farkleberry, Fothergilla, Heart's-a-bustin', Japanese kerria, 'Miss Kim' lilac, Oakleaf hydrangea, Oriental photinia, Persian parrotia, Pomegranate, Redvein enkianthus, Rose, Shadblow serviceberry, Smoke tree, Spicebush, Star magnolia, Sumac, Sweetshrub, Titi, Viburnum, Virginia sweetspire, Winged euonymus, Winterberry, Wintersweet, Witch hazel

Half Sun: Azalea (deciduous), Dusty zenobia, Sweet pepperbush

Half Sun to Shade: Sweetbells

Vines

Full Sun to Half Sun: Boston ivy, Crossvine, Virginia creeper

Full Sun: Grape