Growing Season

• The rainfall and warming spring temperatures trigger deciduous trees to grow leaf buds. By the time the hot, dry weather of summer arrives, the leaves are fully developed. The leaves produce food for the deciduous trees and are responsible for the tree's respiration.
  
  

Dormant Season

• The leaves on deciduous trees turn colors like yellow, orange, red and purple in the autumn as the trees prepare for winter. As the leaves dry out, they fall to the ground. The freezing temperatures and lack of moisture cause deciduous trees to go dormant, which allows the trees to survive the harsh winter weather.
  
  

Types

• Deciduous trees are available in a variety of shapes including columnar, conical, elliptical, round, vase-shaped and weeping. Deciduous trees include maples, buckeyes, horse chestnuts, birches, hornbeams, catalpas, hackberries, ashes, honeylocusts, cork trees, cottonwoods, poplars, oaks, willows, pagoda trees and lindens.