Spring blooming trees or spring flowering trees bring your garden to life early in the year with their frilly petals and fragrant aroma. The dynamic flower show you receive in March through May from the spring blooming trees is something to look forward to after a blistering cold winter. The best spring blooming trees in St. Louis also feed birds, small mammals and attract pollinators.

1. Popular Spring Blooming
Trees
St. Louis, Missouri

2. The Old Favorite:
Bradford Pear Tree
In the 1950-1960’s Bradford Pears were excessively
planted along subdivision streets and in homeowner
yards for the dynamic flower display in midMarch, the beautiful leaf color transition in summer
to fall and its resistance to disease. However, the
Bradford Pear is now only famous for breaking and
falling in storms and high wind due to the branches
stemming out of the same area in the trunk.

3. Spring Blooming Trees
Eastern Redbud
The jaw-dropping Eastern Redbud tree blooms in
late March to early May and is best known for its
rose-purple color petals. They bloom along the limbs
of the trees with 2-8 flowers per cluster. Did you
know that the flowers can be fried and eaten?
Native Americans once used the bark and roots to
treat whooping cough, dysentery, fevers,
congestion, and vomiting.

4. Spring Blooming Trees
Flowering Dogwood
Flowering Dogwood trees bloom shades of vibrant
white to reddish pink in early spring between April
and May, just shortly after the Eastern Redud begins
blooming. The true Dogwood flowers are actually
the tiny yellowish green clusters inside of the four,
showy petal-like bracts. This gives the appearance of
a much larger flower and creates a fabulous display.
Did you know that the Flowering Dogwood is the
state tree of Missouri and Virginia?

5. Spring Blooming Trees
Flowering Cherries
There are hundreds of different varieties of Cherry
trees including the Yoshino Cherry which touts
slightly pink, almost white, 5-petaled blossoms and
fresh leaves that emerge after the peak flowering
season. The Weeping Cherry trees have sweeping
and drooping branches with fragrant, rosy flowers.
The Kwanzan Cherry is the most common tree and
one blossom can consist of as many as 30-50 frilly
pink petals that bloom throughout April.

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