Princess tree (paulownia)
InvasivePaulownia tomentosa
Paulownia (Paulowniaceae) · Invasive · 30–60 ft
Knowing it
Huge velvety heart-shaped leaves and purple foxglove-like flowers before the leaves; seeds blow into disturbed ground, bluffs and roadsides, mostly southern and eastern Missouri.
What a tree company sees
Very fast, very weak; hollow twigs and brittle limbs. Stump-sprouts hard.
Recorded in 31 counties
- Barry County
- Boone County
- Buchanan County
- Butler County
- Camden County
- Cape Girardeau County
- Carter County
- Crawford County
- Greene County
- Howell County
- Iron County
- Jackson County
- Jasper County
- Jefferson County
- Laclede County
- Lafayette County
- Lincoln County
- Marion County
- McDonald County
- Newton County
- Perry County
- Pike County
- Reynolds County
- Ripley County
- Scott County
- Shannon County
- St. Louis City
- St. Louis County
- Ste. Genevieve County
- Stone County
- Taney County
From GBIF occurrence records. No record does not mean absent.