17 Beautiful Trees with Purple Flowers | Purple Flowering Trees

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Here’s an exclusive list of the most elegant Trees with Purple Flowers! Grow them in your garden for a royal appeal!

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Trees with Purple Flowers

Some trees on this list may not have pure purple blooms. 

1. Jacaranda Tree

Trees with Purple Flowers

Botanical Name: Jacaranda mimosifolia

This tropical tree displays clusters of aromatic purple panicle flowers. Its arching branches create a beautiful canopy.

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2. Crape Myrtle

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Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia indica

This summer flowering deciduous tree grows up to 15-30 feet tall. Cultivars like ‘Purple Tower’ and ‘Catawba’ produce purple flowers that attract hummingbirds.

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3. Purple Robe Robina

 Trees with Purple Flowers

Botanical Name: Robinia ‘Purple Robe’

This spring-flowering deciduous tree grows up to 20-40 feet tall in full sun or light shade. It grows violet-purple flowers during summer or fall.

4. Common Lilac

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Botanical Name: Syringa vulgaris

The striking fragrant blooms in the shades of light purple, lilac, or lavender make this a great addition to gardens. It flowers in clusters from April or May.

5. Pride of India

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Botanical Name: Lagerstroemia speciosa

This beautiful tree is native to tropical areas and blooms lovely purple flowers in the summer. It can grow up to 25-50 feet tall.

6. Jane Magnolia tree

top best Beautiful Trees with Purple Flowers

Botanical Name: Magnolia ‘Jane’

This gorgeous tree is a cross between M. liliflora ‘Reflorescens’ and M. stellata ‘Waterlily.’ The large flowers of this specie come in the shade of burgundy-purple.

7. Purple Satin Rose of Sharon

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Botanical Name: Hibiscus syriacus ‘Purple Satin’

This beautiful specimen offers many vibrant purple double flowers from midsummer to fall. This dwarf tree is fairly easy to grow.

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8. Burgundy Desert Willow

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Botanical Name: Chilopsis linearis ‘Burgundy’

Desert Willow does not relate to true willow trees, but it’s a member of the Bignoniaceae family. The tree blooms purple flowers from May through September.

9. Chaste Tree

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Botanical Name: Vitex agnus-castus

This deciduous, fast-growing, and low-maintenance tree has a shrub-like appearance. It produces fragrant, stunning blue or purple flowers during summer.

10. Purple Bauhinia

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Botanical Name: Bauhinia purpurea

This fast-growing deciduous tree flowers over a long period of time. It offers purple-pink blossoms from September through November.

11. Purple Lily Magnolia

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Botanical Name: Magnolia liliflora

This deciduous shrub boasts pink-purple blossoms in April and early May, making the entire tree look purple-pink from a distance!

12. Royal Purple Smoke Tree

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Botanical Name: Cotinus coggygria ‘Royal Purple’

‘Royal Purple’ sports tiny blooms on 6-8 inches long panicles that make the tree look full of fine purple hair.

13. Empress Tree

Trees with Purple Flowers in yard

Botanical Name: Paulownia Ttomentosa

Empress tree grows up to 30-60 feet tall and displays pale violet, foxglove-like blooms. It prefers full sun to partial shade and is not fussy about soil conditions.

14. Lilac

Gorgeous Trees with Purple Blossoms

Botanical Name: Syringa meyeri ‘Palibin’

Also popular as Meyer lilac or Korean lilac, this slow-growing, deciduous shrub features fragrant pale lilac to violet-purple blossoms in small clusters.

15. Purple Covey

Lovely Trees with Purple Blossoms

Botanical Name: Cercis canadensis ‘Covey’

This flowering deciduous tree displays pea-like rose-purple blooms. It flowers abundantly in early spring.

16. Chinese Magnolia

top Lovely Trees with Purple Blossoms

Botanical Name: Magnolia x soulangeana

It’s a hybrid between M.dendudata and M. lilflora. This deciduous tree or shrub displays purple blooms and gets entirely covered in them!

17. Silk Floss Tree

best Lovely Trees with Purple Blossoms

Botanical Name: Ceiba speciosa

This fast-growing, deciduous tree forms a wide canopy and grows pink-purple blooms in summer. It can grow upto 15-40 feet tall.

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