Eastern redbud
സെർസിസ് കാനാഡെൻസിസ്
Cercis canadensis L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 8.6 m
- wide
- 7.8 m
Fabaceae
Also called Redbud, Canada Redbud, Judas tree
Formerly Siliquastrum canadense
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. Canada to NE. & EC. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 8.0 m to 9.1 mRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 20–30 ft; RHS 8–12 m
- Spread
- 7.6 m to 8.0 mRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 25–35 ft; RHS 4–8 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- PinkRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension pink, purple, red; RHS pink
- Coldest it survives
- -24.7 °C (USDA zone 5b)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -34.4 °C; RHS -15 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- duraznillo
- French
- gainier rouge
- German
- Kanadischer Judasbaum
- Czech
- zmarlika kanadská
- Russian
- Багрянник канадский, Церцис канадский
- Japanese
- アメリカハナズオウ
- root
- Takkistàaya
- Chinese (China)
- 加拿大紫荆
- Swedish
- amerikanskt judasträd
- Polish
- Judaszowiec kanadyjski
- Chinese
- 美東紫荊, 加拿大紫荊, 加拿大紫荆
- Ukrainian
- Церцис канадський, Юдине дерево канадське
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Cercis canadensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.