Northern Catalpa
Catalpa speciosa
Northern catalpa is a fast-growing shade tree with bold heart-shaped leaves, large showy white flowers, and dangling cigar-like seed pods. Tough and adaptable; host to the catalpa sphinx moth.
- Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 40–70 ft
- Spacing
- 20–50 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- moist
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral
- Bloom
- April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, larval host
- Landscape uses
- rain garden
- Native states
- AR, IL, IN, KY, LA, MO, TN