Tree Guide | City of Draper

What Trees Should I Plant in Draper?

A. Street Trees:

Street trees shall be selected from the adopted Draper City street tree guide.
Street trees shall not be located within park strips less than five feet (5') wide.
Street trees shall be provided at a minimum ratio of one (1) tree for each forty feet (40') of street frontage.
Street trees shall be at least two inches (2") in caliper at time of planting.
In areas where there is no sidewalk or five feet (5') or less between the sidewalk and curb, street trees shall be installed within fifteen feet (15') of the right-of-way.
Street trees shall be irrigated through the use of bubblers or drip irrigation.

B. Maintenance: Property owners are responsible for the irrigation and maintenance of required street trees and other vegetation in park strips abutting their property pursuant to Section 9-23-140. (Ord. 394, 8-7-2001; amd. Ord. 1583, 6-20-2023)

Draper City Tree Guide (PDF)

Trees in Park Strips 5 Feet or Larger Beneath Power Lines Only species of trees that will grow to 25 feet or less at maturity.
Botanical Name	Common Name
Acer campestre ‘Metro Gold’ only	Hedge Maple
Acer griseum**	Paperbark Maple
Acer tataricum (all cultivars)**	Tatarian Maple
Acer truncatum ‘Main Street’**	Shantung maple
Amelanchier laevis and Amelanchier x grandiflora (cultivars 15-25' tall)	Serviceberry
Cercis canadensis (cultivars 15-25' tall only)	Eastern Redbud
Malus cultivars non-weeping (fruitless cultivars are available, although many have persistent fruit)	Crabapple
Prunus cerasifera cultivars	Flowering Plum
Prunus serrulata	Flowering Cherry
Syringa pekinensis cultivars	Chinese Tree Lilac
Syringa reticulata cultivars	Japanese Tree Lilac
Zelkova serrata (‘Wireless’ and ‘City Sprite’ cultivars only)	Japanese Elm

Trees in Park Strips 5 Feet or Larger Without Power Lines (all trees listed above, plus the following)
Botanical Name	Common Name
Acer campestre**	Hedge Maple
Acer miyabei**	State Street maple
Acer negundo**	Sensation maple
Acer truncatum x A. platanoides cultivars**	Sunset maple
Amelanchier laevis and Amelanchier x grandiflora (all cultivars)	Serviceberry
Celtis occidentalis (cultivars 35’ wide or less)	Common hackberry
Cercis canadensis (cultivars 15’ tall and higher)	Eastern redbud
Crataegus crus galli inermis (thornless cultivars only)	Thornless cockspur hawthorne
Crataegus phaenopyrum	Washington hawthorn
Fagus sylvatica (Dawyck Purple, Fastigiata, and Red Obelisk cultivars)	Columnar beech
Ginkgo biloba (male cultivars only, most cultivars are)	Ginkgo
Gleditsia triacanthos (seedless cultivars only, most cultivars are)	Honeylocust
Koelreuteria paniculata	Goldenrain tree
Parrotia persica	Ironwood
Quercus robur fastigiata cultivars	Columnar oak
Sophora japonica	Japanese pagoda tree
Tilia cultivars	Linden
Ulmus (cultivars 35’ wide or less) No weeping ‘Camperdown’ No “Siberian Elm”	Elm
Zelkova cultivars	Zelkova

Trees in Park Strips of 10 Feet or Larger Without Power Lines (all trees listed above, plus the following)
Botanical Name	Common Name
Acer pseudoplatanus	Sycamore maple
Catalpa speciosa	Northern catalpa
Celtis occidentalis	Common hackberry
Cladrastis kentukea*	American yellowwood
Gymnocladus dioicus (seedless cultivars only)	Kentucky coffetree
Liriodendron tulipifera	Tulip tree
Quercus macrocarpa	Bur oak
Quercus muehlenbergii*	Chinkapin oak
Quercus shumardii*	Shumard oak
Tilia cultivars	Linden
Ulmus cultivars No weeping ‘Camperdown’ No Ulmus pumila “Siberian Elm”	Elm

Trees in Park Strips Above 5,000 Feet Elevation Firewise Landscaping Principles Need to be Followed Beneath Powerlines: Only species of trees that will grow to 25 feet or less at maturity Park Strips 5 Feet or Larger
Botanical Name	Common Name
Acer ginnala cultivars**	Amur Maple
Acer grandidentatum cultivars,*	Bigtooth Maple
Acer tartaricum cultivars**	Tatarian Maple
Amelanchier laevis and Amelanchier x grandiflora cultivars	Serviceberry
Juniperus scopulorum cultivars	Rocky Mountain Juniper
Quercus gambelii	Gambel Oak

Park Strips 10 Feet or Larger (all trees listed above for 5000' and 5' or larger, plus the following)
Botanical Name	Common Name
Celtis occidentalis	Common hackberry
Pinus aristata	Bristlecone pine
Pinus edulis	Pinyon pine

Conifers: Best in Groupings at Entrances to Developments and in Non-Traditional Park Strips at Least 20 Feet Wide Without Power Lines
Botanical Name	Common Name
Abies concolor	Concolor fir
Calocedrus decurrens	Incense cedar
Cedrus atlantica glauca cultivars	Blue Atlas cedar
Cedrus deodara cultivars	Deodar cedar
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis cultivars	Alaskan cedar
Cupressus glabra	Arizona cypress
Juniperus	Columnar juniper
Picea abies*	Norway spruce
Picea glauca*	White spruce
Picea pungens (glauca) cultivars*	Colorado (Blue) Spruce
Picea mariana*	Black spruce
Picea omorika*	Serbian spruce
Picea orientalis*	Oriental spruce
Pinus flexilis cultivars	Limber pine
Pinus leucodermis cultivars	Bosnian Pine
Pinus monophylla	Single-leaf pinyon pine
Pinus nigra cultivars	Austrian Pine
Pinus strobus	White Pine
Pinus sylvestris	Scotch Pine
Pseudotsuga menziesii	Douglas Fir

Trees for Other Public Places (all trees listed above, plus the following)
Botanical Name	Common Name
Magnolia cultivars	Magnolia
Populus canadensis ‘Robusta’	Cottonless cottonwood
Populus deltoides ‘Siouxland’	Cottonless cottonwood
Populus acuminata	Lanceleaf cottonwood
Prunus cerasifera cultivars*	Flowering plum
Prunus virginiana ‘Canada Red’	Canada Red chokecherry
Prunus sargentii, serrulata, and yedoensis	Flowering cherry

For more diversity in public places, although may not be readily available:
Botanical Name	Common Name
Albizia julibrissin	Mimosa silk tree
Chionanthus retusus or virginicus*	White fringe tree
Eucommia ulmoides	Hardy rubber tree
Maclura pomifer ‘Wichita’	Osage Orange
Metasequoia glyptostroboides	Dawn redwood (deciduous conifer)
Ostrya virginiana*	Hop hornbeam
Phellodendron amurense	Amur cork tree
Pistacia chinensis*	Chinese pistache
Salix species (Wet areas only)	Willow
Taxodium distichum	Bald cypress (deciduous conifer)

*These species do not do well with secondary water.

**Maples are the only trees on this guide that can be considered firewise if used properly in the landscape and properly maintained. Use of firewise plants alone does not guarantee fire safety for you or your home. They require strategic location, maintenance, and supplemental moisture to help reduce the intensity of wildfires.

Soil Testing

It is recommended that you have your soil tested to make sure it does not have verticillium wilt. Some trees will survive with this present, but it will kill others, especially maples. In trees, symptoms can appear any time but often start in hot, dry weather. Leaves will be smaller than usual and the margins may brown, looking like they are scorched. Leaves may wilt on some large branches in the crown, or on the entire side of the tree before eventually dying. Another indicator is the tree produces more seeds than usual.