Other Names: Western Catalpa; Lady Cigar Tree; Indian Bean.

 Medium tree up to 60 feet tall; trunk diameter up to 3 feet; crown broad, widely spreading.

 Light brown, dark brown, or black, usually with rather deep furrows.

 Stout, smooth, brown, with conspicuous lenticels; leaf scars in whorls of 3, with one of the 3 scars smaller than the other 2, round‑elliptic, elevated, with 12 or more bundle traces.

 Round, brown to black, smooth, very small.

 Whorled, simple; blades ovate, long‑pointed at the tip, heart‑shaped at the base, up to I foot long and about V3 as broad, smooth along the edges, dark green and smooth or sparsely hairy on the upper surface, soft hairy on the lower surface; leafstalks stout, up to 6 inches long.

Large, showy, several in an elongated cluster, appearing in May and June, the clusters up to six inches long, each flower up to 21/2 inches long, the petals white and lined with purple.

 Elongated capsules up to 11h feet long and % inch thick, brown, splitting into 2 parts to reveal several winged, hairy seeds about I inch long.

Low woods; often planted in a variety of habitats.

 Single specimumnext to parking lot at southwest corner of lake.

The two Catalpas in Illinois are hard to tell apart. This one usually has deeply %rrowed bark, shorter clusters of flowers, petals merely lined with purple rather than spotted, and leaves which are not unpleasantly scented when crushed.

  Single specimen planted near parking lot at south west corner of lake

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Tree species facts from Robert Mohlenbrock , Forest Trees of Illinois , 1996