Shady 80

Recommended trees for a cooler Sacramento region

It's important to plant the right tree in the right place. Use this catalog to help narrow down your tree selection. This list includes over 80 of the best trees for the Sacramento region — trees that will thrive in our climate and soil, that are ideal for urban and suburban areas, and that are relatively free of serious pests and diseases.

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Download our list of recommended trees. Please note that some information, especially regarding tree availability, is subject to change.

Quercus douglasii - blue oak acorn and leaves

Blue oak

Quercus douglasii

Smooth elongated leaves of the California bay are slightly slimmer than those of a sweet bay, and they have a pungent, warm, herbal aroma

California bay laurel

Umbellularia californica

Pillars of white flowers adorn the tips of California buckeye branches in spring

California buckeye

Aeculus californica

Platanus racemosa - California sycamore

California sycamore

Platanus racemosa

An incense cedar grows in front of a house; it is a tall evergreen conifer that somewhat resembles the shape of a redwood

Incense cedar

Calocedrus decurrens

An interior live oak growing near a roadside

Interior live oak

Quercus wislizeni

Jeffrey pine

Pinus jeffreyi

Oregon ash

Fraxinus latifolia

Ponderosa pine

Pinus ponderosa

Quercus lobata - valley oak

Valley oak

Quercus lobata

Western redbud

Cercis occidentalis