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Hydrangea arborescens, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
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Hydrangea arborescens

Smooth hydrangea · also Sevenbark, Wild hydrangea, Sheep flower

Multi-trunkDeciduous
28
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
3
cities
2.0 in
median trunk (5 cm, 7 measured)
11 yr
median age (96% have a planting date)

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Hydrangea arborescens is a small to medium-sized, multi-stemmed, deciduous shrub growing up to 7 feet tall. It is native to the eastern United States.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Boston · United States
    213.1 yr—
  2. Helsinki · Finland
    617 yr2.0 in
  3. Calgary · Canada
    1—3.9 in

Traits

Form
Multi-trunk
Foliage
Deciduous
Mature height
7 ft

Trunk diameters across every city: median 2.0 in, mean 2.2 in, 90th percentile 2.8 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Mississippi lowland forests
  • New England-Acadian forests

Other Hydrangea in the catalogue

7 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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