Name of purple tree?

I saw these trees growing on the sides of the road on Interstate 70 as I was driving through Kansas and Missouri. They were about 20 to 30 feet tall, and they were bright purple-lilac-Wisteria colored. I searched the net for all the trees I thought it could be and ruled out the following: Wisteria, Jacaranda, Purple smoke tree, Purple orchid tree, and lilacs. The trees I just mentioned had the color of the mystery tree, but were not the tree. Can anybody please tell me what these really cool looking trees are?

Name of purple tree?
Sounds like flowering plum to me. They'll have little pink flowers that in the colder climes you are at will likely not start blooming for a few months.





They tend to get about that high after 10 years or so. At most nurseries you buy them at 4ft.





The older ones actually have small cherry sized plums, which you can eat, although they tend to be either very sweet, or very sour.





They do tend to suffer from bark beetles though. It's important to paint their trunks, and shade them.





Aside from that, care is pretty simple, and mostly involves trimming off the many side shoots that they produce.
Reply:umm, with flowering plum, the tree is purple, and the flowers are pink. Sorry if I didn't make that clear in the answer. Thanks for the ten points though. Report It

Reply:Trees were probably purple leaf plum. Hardy variety and kind of cheap. Grow quickly. You need to look out for insects as they have tender leaves and thin bark. A little maintenance and proper irrigation they do great. Make sure you get the upright version of the tree.
Reply:Maybe flowering plum?
Reply:It's probably some kind of redbud tree.