Yellowwood features super-fragrant, wisteria-like blooms.  Individual flowers are small with yellow centers but appear in foot-long clusters covering the tree in spring to early summer.
 
     Yellowwood reliably blooms profusely every two or three years, although there should be at least some blooms every year.  The first blooms should appear once the tree has matured 8 or 10 years.
 
     Yellowwood's bright-green, pinnately compound leaves turn a pleasant yellow to orange in the fall.  Its smooth bark is attractive in winter, and its deep roots make it relatively easy to plant ferns and other shade lovers around its base.
 
     Seed pods mature in the fall.
 
     Yellowwood makes an excellent addition to a wildlife or children's garden, as a shade tree, near a patio or as a specimen for a winter garden.  Frankly, it will work just about anywhere.
 
     Songbirds use Yellowwood for nesting, and bees and other pollinators feed on its nectar.
 
     Yellowwood is considered a "nearby native" in that its native range generally is south of Pennsylvania.  It is hardy in New England and offered here as another beautiful native tree that can be planted instead of Kousa dogwood or other non-native and sometimes invasive plants.