Tree growing in the corner just outside the south Lagomarcino courtyard.
The yellowwood is
a rare native tree. Its range is in the Appalachian Mountains in western
North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri. It grows in rich,
well-drained limestone soils on slopes, ridges and along streams and is
hardy in Iowa and other areas north of its range. Fragrant blooms are produced
in June in pendulous clusters of showy, white, butterfly-like flowers. It
has a serious problem of producing narrow growth angles of the crotches,
which often cause the tree to be subject to breakage in storms.
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