We built our home 12 years ago and I went to a nursery and bought a "stick" in a pot. The owner had no idea what tree it was and I just took a chance on it. It appears to be a weeping willow except that it started blooming about 3 years ago. This is definitely NOT a cherry tree - there are no fruits on it, ornamental or edible. I have tried to identify it using various sites but without any luck. Any help would be very much appreciated!

Question, please. When you say it was a stick in a pot, was there only a single trunk? Or was it multiple as in the image you provided?

Have you ever looked to see if this was a grafted tree?

In what month does it bloom? Is there any fragrance to the flower?

Yes, just a single "stick" in a pot - single trunk. It is blooming now - mid to late April. No fragrance to the flowers that I can tell. I don't believe it would be grafted as it was just a tiny stick - not even a real trunk when purchased. I assumed after the first few years that it was a simple weeping willow but then the flowers started appearing after about 8 years.

Thanks for your help!

Can you post a close up of the flowers and trunk?

Here are two pictures - one of the flowers and one of the trunk.

I'm really not sure but it reminds me of Carolina Silverbell (Halesia carolina)

It is definitely a Prunus sp....it could well be a flowering cherry which never produces cherries.
Note the flowers in clusters.
Note the bark shows lenticels typical of Prunus.

There are 100's of flowering cherries and I do not know the ones available to you there.
But it reminds me of Prunus Snow Showers.

https://www.unwins.co.uk/prunu...

See above...
Cherries of the same name..... all flower at the same time.
Some flower early in the year others later.
May I suggest you take a twig and visit a big garden centre/or park or botanic garden near you to see which cherries they have flowering now that look like your flowers.

Thank you very much!

Illinois web site.....

https://www.fast-growing-trees...

@Silversurfer, Thank you so much for always being so helpful with plant identification!

Treelover2's tree appears to have a weeping/pendulous habit so, possibly a variety of Weeping Cherry.
Weeping Japanese Cherry (Prunus Snow Fountains®) (also sold as White Fountains)
Weeping Cherry Tree (Prunus subhirtella)
Weeping Higan Cherry (Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula Rosea') is said to have white or pink blooms.

A couple more bloom photos from the database for comparison:



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