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Cultivar NameNotes
 
Black Swan'Black Swan' - weeping habit; foliage shiny black-purple; 8' tall x 3' wide in 10 years
Cockleshell 'Cockleshell' - columnar; leaves are smaller and more rounded than those of other beeches
Franken'Franken' - Irregularly variegated leaves
Mercedes'Mercedes' - very slow growing; incised, fine-textured, rich green leaves; 4” of growth annually; developing into 4’ densely branched shrubs in many years
Gold Tide'Gold Tide' (a.k.a. 'Courtasol') - low growing to 3'; dense, profuse flowering; an excellent spreading ground cover
Evergold'Evergold' (a.k.a. 'Gold Leaf', 'Goldleaf') - maintain bright yellow leaf color all season long
Fiesta'Fiesta' - variegated foliage, green with a deep yellow center
Karl Sax'Karl Sax' - deep yellow flowers borne horizontally; dense and bushy habit; superior bud hardiness
Spring Glory'Spring Glory' - a better choice for warmer zones (USDA zones 7-8); grows to 10' tall; abundant blooms are deep yellow
Jane Platt'Jane Platt' - often available commercially; rounded growth habit, to 3' tall; leaves are narrower than the species; flowers may be a bit larger than species; fall color less striking than other varieties and the species
Suzanne'Suzanne' - compact form; 3' high and wide
Harold Epstein‘Harold Epstein’ - compact, to 15" tall; superior fall color to 'Jane Platt'
Appalachia‘Appalachia’ - vigorous habit; compact, to 2' tall; orange-red autumn color
Bill’s True Dwarf‘Bill’s True Dwarf’ - growing to 3' tall; blue-green summer foliage and good autumn color
Arkansas Beauty‘Arkansas Beauty’ - superior drought tolerance; inferior fall foliage and bloom density
Eastern Form'Eastern Form' - small; oval leaves; foliage turns yellow, orange, and red
September Morn'September Morn' - notably dense inflorescences and fall foliage
Black Mountain'Black Mountain' - upright habit; compact form; small, leathery dark green leaves; sub-par fall foliage
Feist Red'Feist Red' - large form; oval rounded structure; stout branching habit
Huntsman'Huntsman' - thick green leaves with pubescent undersides; yellow fall color
Mount Airy'Mount Airy' (a.k.a. 'Mount Airy') - superior cultivar; blue-green foliage; excellent (if variable) fall color; superior cold-hardiness; dense blooming; more upright habit, to 5 or 6'; readily available in the trade
Fine Line'Fine Line' (a.k.a. 'Ron Williams') - columnar habit; fine textured foliage, leaves are linear with a wavy margin, fine-textured
Greenspire'Greenspire' - upright, narrow form; reaches 40' tall and 30' wide; summer foliage is a good dark green and fall color is dark orange
Northern Blaze'Northern Blaze' (a.k.a. 'Jeffnor') - growth habit is upright-oval; 60' tall perhaps half as wide; seedless plant; extreme hardiness and resistance to winter damage; fall color purple
Skyline'Skyline' (a.k.a. 'Skycole') - good form and growth rate; grows symmetrically to 50' tall; strong central leader; lustrous green foliage turns orange or red in fall
Empire'Empire' - upright narrow pyramidal to oval habit; 50' tall x 25' wide; yellow-orange to purplish fall foliage
Aucubaefolia'Aucubaefolia' - irregularly gold flecked foliage
Georgia Gem'Georgia Gem' (a.k.a. 'Oconee') - seedless green ash cultivar for the South; heat resistance; fast growth; particularly leaves
Harlequin'Harlequin' - white-variegated foliage
Leprechaun'Leprechaun' (a.k.a. ‘Johnson’) - genetic dwarf form; 18' tall x 16' wide; dense, compact, round form; seedless; generally grafted on a 4' or 6' stem