Littleleaf Linden                TIL-i-a kor-DA-ta

• Deciduous tree, 60-70 ft (18-21 m), pyramidal when young, then upright-oval to pyramidal-rounded.  Bark gray-brown.  Leaves alternate, simple, somewhat circular in outline, 4-10 cm long, cordate, finely serrated, somewhat glossy above, paler and glabrous beneath except for axillary tufts of brown hairs, fall color is yellow green.  Flowers produced in late June or early July, 5-7 per pendulous cluster, floral bract is 4-9 cm long.  Globose fruit, slightly or not ridged, covered with gray pubescence, finally glabrous.
• Sun. Tolerates pollution.  Used as a street tree for centuries.   Can be pruned into a hedge.  A number of cultivars.
• Hardy to USDA Zone (3) 4      Native to Europe.
• Oregon State Univ. campus: southeast corner USDA Forage Seed Lab on Campus Way (near 30th St.).