Species profile
Redbud
Cercis canadensis
2,900 on Toronto's streets — 0.42% of the city's catalogued canopy.
🌸 Blooms Apr 28 – May 12: magenta-pink, clinging to bare branches
🍁 Fall colour Oct 5 – Oct 25: yellow
Toronto history — Eastern redbud — Carolinian, at the northern edge of its native range in Toronto. Magenta-pink blooms on bare branches in late April before anything else is out. Planted in small-lot contexts since the 1990s.
Cercis canadensis, the eastern redbud, is a large deciduous shrub or small tree, native to eastern North America from southern Michigan south to central Mexico, west to New Mexico, but able to thrive as far west as California and as far north as southern Ontario. It is the state tree of Oklahoma and the official city tree of Huntington Beach. The prevalence of the so-called "Columbus strain" has s
Where they cluster
| Neighbourhood | Trees |
|---|---|
| Rosedale-Moore Park | 70 |
| Bedford Park-Nortown | 66 |
| Stonegate-Queensway | 66 |
| High Park-Swansea | 59 |
| Wexford/Maryvale | 55 |
| Kingsway South | 50 |
| Lawrence Park South | 50 |
| Princess-Rosethorn | 43 |