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Articles tagged Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites

• | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: birds, Intermediate Sized Trees, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites
  

• Cornelian-cherry Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, Butterflies, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Cornus mas Common Name: Cornelian-cherry Dogwood Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fruits Height: 20-25' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Oval, multi-trunked tree Growth Rate: Slow...

• Redbud

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, ornamental, not favored by deer, Native Trees, native, small ornamental trees
  Botanical Name: Cercis canadensis Common Name: Redbud Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge flowers fall color fruits bark   Height: 15-20'  Spread: 20-25'  Habit/Form: Rounded to...

• American Hornbeam (Musclewood)

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Intermediate Sized Trees, Native Trees, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical name: Carpinus carolinianaCommon name: American Hornbeam (Musclewood) Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge leaves and fruit fall color flowers bark Height: 25-35' (often smaller)...

• Purple-flowering Raspberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name:  Rubus odoratusCommon Name: Purple-flowering Raspberry Updated 12/2012 Click on photo to enlarge Habit Flower Leaf   Height:  3-6'  Spread: 6-8'  Habit/Form: Broad...

• Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  As a general rule, most plants don't like to have their roots wet for extended periods of time. However, some species grow naturally along riverbanks and other soggy locations, where they readily adapt to fluctuations in soil moisture or tolerate...

• Bayberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Intermediate Sized, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Myrica pensylvanica Common Name: Bayberry Updated 11/2012   Form Winter form Flower   Fruit Fruit in winter Bark Click an image to...

• Fringe Tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Large Deciduous Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Chionanthus virginicusCommon Name: Fringe Tree Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flower fruit Height: 12-20' Spread: 10-20' Habit/Form: Oval to wide spreading shrub or small...

• River Birch

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Native Trees, Large Deciduous Trees, Butterflies, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, birds, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Betula nigraCommon Name: River Birch* Updated  2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge. Form Winter form     Leaf Bark Height: 40-70' Spread: 40-60' Habit/Form:...

• Common Bald Cypress

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, large evergreen, Native Trees, not favored by deer, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Taxodium distichum Common Name: Bald-Cypress* Updated 1/2013 Click on an image to enlarge. Form Fall form Leaf   Fall leaf Fruit Bark Height: 50-70' Spread: 20-30'...

• Northern Catalpa

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Large Deciduous Trees, not favored by deer, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Catalpa speciosaCommon Name: Northern Catalpa Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge.   Form Winter form Leaf     Flower Fruit Bark   Height: 40-60'...

• Hackberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Native Trees, Butterflies, birds
  Botanical Name: Celtis occidentalis Common Name: Hackberry Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Winter form Leaf bark form Height: 40-60' Spread: 40-60' Habit/Form: Pyramidal in youth changing...

• Thornless Honey Locust

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, not favored by deer, Native Trees, thornless
  Botanical Name: Gleditsia triacanthos f. inermis Common Name: Thornless Honey Locust* Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Form Fall form Leaf   Fall leaf Fruit Bark Height: 40-70'...

• Swamp White Oak

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Native Trees, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Quercus bicolor Common Name: Swamp White Oak Updated 12/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Form Winter form Fall leaf Fruit Bark Height: 50-60' Spread: 50-60' Habit/Form:...

• Red Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Acer rubrum Common Name: Red Maple Reviewed 1/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Form Fall form Leaf   Flower Fruit Height: 40-50' Spread: 35-45' Habit/Form: Variable in growing...

• Sweetbay Magnolia

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Magnolia virginiana Common Name: Sweetbay Magnolia Updated 10/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Form Flower Leaf Height: 10-20'  Spread: 10-20'  Habit/Form: Upright, spreading  Growth Rate:...

• White Spruce

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, large evergreen
  Botanical Name: Picea glauca Common Name: White Spruce Updated 11/2012 Click on an image to enlarge. Form Needles   Cones Bark Height: 40-60' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Broad pyramidal Growth...

• Ohio Buckeye

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Intermediate Sized Trees, Native Trees, Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Aesculus glabraCommon Name: Ohio Buckeye Updated 1/2012   Form Leaf Flower Fruit Bark Click on an image to enlarge. Height: 20-40'   Spread:...

• Tulip-tree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Butterflies, Native Trees, not favored by deer, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical name: Liriodendron tulipiferaCommon Name: Tulip-tree Updated 10/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fall color Height: 70-90'  Spread: 25-30'  Habit/Form: Rounded to oval  Growth rate:...

• Gray Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Large Deciduous Shrubs, native, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Cornus racemosa Common Name: Gray Dogwood Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fall color Height: 10-15' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Multi-stemmed, upright spreading Growth Rate: Slow...

• Eastern Arborvitae

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Native Trees, large evergreen, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Thuja occidentalisCommon Name: Eastern Arborvitae Updated 1/2013 Click on an image to enlarge Form Needles Bark Height: 40-60' Spread: 15-25' Habit/Form: Narrow, conical becoming pyramidal with age...

• Eastern Hemlock

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, native, large evergreen
  Botanical Name: Tsuga canadensis Common Name: Eastern Hemlock Updated 2/2013 Click on an image to enlarge Form Needles   Cones Bark Height: 40-70' Spread: 25-35' Habit/Form: Pyramidal...

• Black Chokeberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Low growing shrubs, native, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Aronia melanocarpaCommon Name: Black Chokeberry Updated 2/2012   Height: 3-5' Spread: 6-8' Habit/Form: Upright and mounded Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 3-8Cultural Requirements: Best in full sun but tolerant of partial shade....

• Dwarf Fothergilla

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Low growing shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Fothergilla gardenii Common Name: Dwarf Fothergilla Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge   form flowers fall color Height: 2-3' Spread: 2-3' Habit/Form: Rounded mound Growth Rate:...

• Virginia Sweetspire

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Low growing shrubs
  Botanical Name: Itea virginica Common Name: Sweetspire Updated 10/2012 Height: 3-5'  Spread: 4-6'  Habit/Form: Rounded  Growth Rate: Medium  Zone: 5-9Cultural Requirements: In the wild, this shrub is often found in wet areas,...

• Southern Arrowwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Viburnums, Butterflies, Large Deciduous Shrubs, native, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Viburnum dentatum Common Name: Southern Arrowwood Updated 2/2013 Click on an image to enlarge form leaves flowers fruits Height: 8-10 (15)' Spread: 6-15' Habit/Form: Rounded to vase shaped with...

• Vernal Witch-Hazel

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Hamamelis vernalisCommon Name: Vernal Witch-Hazel Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge fall color flowers Height: 6-10' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Rounded to upright Growth Rate: Medium  Zone:...

• Silverbell

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Halesia tetrapteraCommon Name: Silverbell Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flower Height: 25-30' Spread: 20-25' Habit/Form: Oval Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 4 - 8Cultural Requirements: An...

• Red-Osier Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Butterflies, Large Deciduous Shrubs, native, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Cornus sericea ssp. sericeaCommon Name: Red-Osier Dogwood Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge leaves winter form Height: 7-9' Spread: 8-10' Habit/Form: Broad spreading, rounded, multi-stemmed Growth...

• Red Buckeye

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Native Trees
  Botanical Name:  Aesculus paviaCommon Name: Red Buckeye Updated 2/2012 Click on an image leaf spring form   winter form flower Height:  10-20'  Spread:  15-25'...

• Sweet-Gum

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, not favored by deer, Native Trees, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Liquidambar styracifluaCommon Name: Sweet-Gum Updated 10/2012 Click on an image to enlarge leaves fall color fruits   Height: 60-70'  Spread: 30-45'  Habit/Form: Pyramidal to rounded ...

• Sycamore

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Native Trees, not favored by deer, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Platanus occidentalisCommon Name: Sycamore Updated 11/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form leaf in winter Height: 75-100'  Spread: 50-75'  Form: Irregular spreading  Growth Rate: Medium...

• Pawpaw

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Interesting Fruits of Trees & Shrubs, Native Trees, Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Asimina trilobaCommon Name: Pawpaw Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form leaves leaves in fall flowers fruits bark Height:  15-20' ...

• Buttonbush

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Butterflies, native, Plants for Shady Sites, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Cephalanthus occidentalis* Common Name: Buttonbush Updated 2/2012 Click image to enlarge form leaf   fruit trunk Height: 6-12'  Spread: 12-18'  Habit/Form: Upright...

• Summersweet Clethra

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Butterflies, Intermediate Sized, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Summer-Flowering Trees & Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Clethra alnifolia Common Name: Summersweet Clethra Updated 3/2012 form flower Fall leaves Click on image to enlarge.Height:  6-8'  Spread:  4-6'  Habit/Form:  Oval to...

• Possum-haw

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, birds, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Midwest, native, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Bonatical name:  Ilex deciduaCommon Name:  Possum-haw Updated 7/2012 Click on image to enlarge. Form Leaf Fruit Height: 10-15'+ Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Rounded Growth Rate: Medium Zone:...

• Spicebush

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, butterfly, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Midwest, native, not favored by deer, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name:  Lindera benzoin *Common Name:  Spicebush Updated 10/2012   Click on image to enlarge Winter form Fall form Fall leaf   Fruit Bark Height:...

• American Cranberry-bush

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, birds, native, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Viburnum opulus var. americanumCommon Name: American Cranberry-Bush Viburnum Updated 3/2013   Form Leaves & flowers Fruit Click on an image to enlarge. Height:  8-12'  Spread: ...

• Carolina-Allspice

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, not favored by deer, Intermediate Sized, Interesting Fruits of Trees & Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name:  Calycanthus floridusCommon Name:  Common Sweetshrub, Carolina-Allspice Updated 2/2012 Form Flower Fall leaves   Leaf Fruit Click on an image to...

• Leatherwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, not favored by deer, native, Intermediate Sized, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name:  Dirca palustris*Common Name:  Leatherwood Updated 3/2012   Form Flower   Leaf Leaf in fall Click on image to enlarge.Height:  5-8'  ...

• Common Winterberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, native, Intermediate Sized, Interesting Fruits of Trees & Shrubs, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical name:  Ilex verticillata*Common name:  Common Winterberry Updated 10/2012   Form Leaf   Fruit Bark Click an image to enlarge.Height: 6-10'  Spread:...

• Black Spruce

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: large evergreen, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Picea marianaCommon Name: Black Spruce Updated 11/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Needles cones Height: 30-40' Spread: 20-25'  Habit/Form: Conical Growth Rate: Slow Zone: 3-5Cultural...

• Silver Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical name: Acer saccharinumCommon Name: Silver Maple Updated 1/2012   Summer form Fall form Leaf Bark Plant tolerant of flooded areas for extended periods of time. Height:...

• Sweet Birch

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Butterflies, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Betula lentaCommon Name: Sweet Birch Updated 2/2012   Fall Form Fall leaf Catkin Height:  50-60'  Spread: 40-50'  Habit/Form:  Pyramidal to rounded Growth Rate: Medium   Zone:...

• Quaking Aspen

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanic Name: Populus tremuloidesCommon Name:  Quaking Aspen Updated 12/2012   Summer form Winter form Leaf Bark Height:  35-50'   Spread:  15-25' ...

• Pecan

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Carya illinoensisCommon Name: Pecan Updated 2/2012 Summer form Winter form Leaf   Fall leaf Catkins Fruit Height: 75-100'  Spread: ...

• Northern Pin Oak

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Common Name: Northern Pin OakBontanical Name: Quercus palustris   Summer form Winter form Leaf Fall leaf Fruit Bark

• American Larch

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Common Name: American Larch (deciduous)Botanical Name: Larix laricina Click image to enlarge Form Needle Cone Plant tolerant of flooded areas for extended periods of time.

• American Elm

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Ulmus americanaCommon Name:  American Elm   Summer form Fall form Winter form Bark Plant tolerant of occasional or temporary flooding

• Coralberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, not favored by deer, native, Low growing shrubs, deer, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Symphoricarpos orbiculatus*Common Name:  Coralberry Updated 12/2012 Form Winter form Fruit Click an image to enlarge Height: 2-5'  Spread: 4-8'  Habit/Form: Upright arching  Growth...