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Articles tagged Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs

• Black-haw

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Large Deciduous Shrubs, native
  Botanical Name: Viburnum prunifoliumCommon Name: Black-haw Updated 3/2013   Click on an image to enlarge form flower fruits fall color Height: 12-15' Spread: 8-12' Habit/Form: Rounded Growth Rate: Slow to...

• Peking Lilac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Syringa pekinensis Common Name: Peking Lilac Updated 1/2013 Click on an image to enlarge form flower bark Height: 20-25' Spread: 20-25' Habit/Form: Upright to Rounded Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 4-7Cultural...

• Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Across the Midwest, the use of deicing salts (primarily sodium chloride) in winter to maintain safe roadways, sidewalks, and driveways is a common practice. Despite the benefits, deicing salt deposited on trees and shrubs can cause extensive damage....

• Ironwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Intermediate Sized Trees, Native Trees, not favored by deer, Plants for Shady Sites, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Ostrya virginiana*Common Name: Ironwood Updated 11/2012   Form Fall Leaves Fruit     Catkins Bark Click on an image to enlarge Height:...

• 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...

• Shagbark HIckory

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Native Trees
  Botanical name: Carya ovataCommon name: Shagbark hickory Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form leaf bark nut Height: 60-80'  Spread: 40-50'  Habit/Form: Irregular oval  Growth Rate:...

• Frau Dagmar Hastrup Rugosa Rose

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Low growing shrubs, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Rosa rugosa 'Frau Dagmar Hastrup' Common Name: Frau Dagmar Hastrup Rugosa Rose Updated 12/2012   Form Bud Flower Click image to enlarge. Height: 3-4' Spread: 3-4' Habit/Form: Low dense...

• 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:...

• Rugosa Rose

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Low growing shrubs, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Rosa rugosaCommon Name: Rugosa Rose Updated 12/2012   Height: 4-6' Spread: 4-6' Habit/Form: Upright, rounded, suckering, colonizing shrub Growth Rate: Medium to fast Zone: 3-7Cultural Requirements: One of the most...

• Fragrant Sumac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, native, Low growing shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Rhus aromatica Common Name: Fragrant Sumac Updated 12/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form leaves fruit fall color Height: 2-6' Spread: 6-10' Habit/Form: Mounded  Growth Rate: Slow to...

• European Larch

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, large evergreen, not favored by deer, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Larix decidua Common Name: European Larch Updated 2012 Click on an image to enlarge. Form Winter form Leaf   Flower Cone Bark Height: 70-75' Spread: 25-30' 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...

• Ginkgo

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, not favored by deer
  Botanical Name: Ginkgo biloba Common Name: Ginkgo Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge. Form Winter form Branch   Leaf Bark Height: 50-80' Spread: 30-40' Habit/Form: Broadly pyramidal...

• 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'...

• Kentucky Coffeetree

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Native Trees
  Botanical Name: Gymnocladus dioicus Common Name: Kentucky Coffeetree* Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge. Form Leaf Fall leaf   Fruit Bark Height: 50-60 Spread: 40-50' Habit/Form:...

• White Oak

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Quercus, Native Trees, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Oak, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Quercus alba Common Name: White Oak* Updated 12/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Form Leaf Fall leaf Fruit Bark Height: 50-80' Spread: 50-80' Habit/Form: Pyramidal in youth...

• 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:...

• Bur Oak

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Native Trees, Oak, Quercus, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Quercus macrocarpa Common Name: Bur Oak* Updated 12/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Form Winter form Leaf Fruit Bark Height: 70-80' Spread: 80-90' Habit/Form: Broadly spreading...

• English Oak

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Oak, Quercus, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Quercus robur Common Name: English Oak Updated 12/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Winter form Leaf Fruit Height: 40-60' Spread: 50-60' Habit/Form: Rounded to spreading Growth rate: Slow/Medium ...

• Chinese Juniper

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, large evergreen
  Botanical Name: Juniperus chinensis Common Name: Chinese Juniper Updated 3/2013 Click on an image to enlarge. Form Needles Bark Height: 50-60' Spread: 15-20'  Habit/Form: pyramidal to conical Rate: Slow to medium...

• Blue Spruce

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, large evergreen
  Botanical Name: Picea pungens Common Name: Blue Spruce Updated 11/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Form Needles Bark Height: 30-60' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Broad pyramidal  Growth Rate: Medium Zone:...

• Japanese Tree Lilac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, not favored by deer
  Botanical Name: Syringa reticulata  Common Name: Japanese Tree Lilac Updated 1/2013   Height: 20-25' Spread: 15-25' Habit/Form: Oval to Rounded Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 3 to 7Cultural Requirements: Best flowering occurs in full...

• Apple Serviceberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants for Shady Sites, Butterflies, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Amelanchier x grandifloraCommon Name: Apple Serviceberry Reviewed 2/2012   fall color bark leaves in fall fruit   Height: 20-25' Spread: 20-25' Habit/Form: Broad, and often...

• 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...

• Shrubby Cinquefoil

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: native, Low growing shrubs, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Potentilla fruticosa Common Name: Shrubby Cinquefoil Updated 11/2012   Height: 1-4' Spread: 2-4' Habit/Form: Mounded Growth Rate: Fast Zone: 2-6 Cultural Requirements: Grow in full sun for maximum flower production;...

• 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....

• Black Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Native Trees
  Botanical Name: Acer nigrumCommon Name: Black Maple Reviewed 1/2012 Click on an image to enlarge: form leaves fall color Height: 60-70'  Spread: 50-75'  Form: Upright oval  Rate: Slow   Zone:...

• 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...

• Smooth Sumac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Rhus glabraCommon Name: Smooth Sumac Updated 12/2012 Click on am image to enlarge form fruit fall color Height: 10-15' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Large, suckering, colonizing shrub. Growth Rate: Fast...

• Staghorn Sumac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Large Deciduous Shrubs, native, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Rhus typhinaCommon Name: Staghorn Sumac Updated 12/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form fruit fall color Height: 15-25' Spread: 15-30' Habit/Form: Large, suckering, colonizing shrub. Growth Rate: Fast ...

• Common Witch-Hazel

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Butterflies, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Midwest, native, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Hamamelis virginiana Common Name: Common Witch-hazel Updated 4/2012 Click on a photo to enlarge form fall color flowers Height: 15-25' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Upright to rounded Growth Rate:...

• Bitternut Hickory

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Native Trees
  Botanical Name: Carya cordiformisCommon Name: Bitternut Hickory Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form leaflets   Height: 50-75'  Spread: 30-40'  Habit/Form: Broadly Columnar  Growth Rate:...

• Tupelo

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Native Trees, Intermediate Sized Trees, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name:  Nyssa sylvaticaCommon Name:  Tupelo Updated 11/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form in fall color leaves Height: 30-50' Spread 25-30' Habit/Form: Pyramidal Growth Rate: Slow to medium Zone:...

• Saucer Magnolia

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Intermediate Sized Trees, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name:  Magnolia x soulangianaCommon Name:  Saucer Magnolia Updated 10/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Form Winter form Flower Height: 25-30' Spread 15-25' Habit/Form: Spreading Growth Rate:...

• 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 ...

• Black Walnut

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Native Trees, Butterflies
  Botanical Name: Juglans nigraCommon Name: Black Walnut Updated 10/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form form fruit leaves bark   Height: 50-70'  Spread: 30-50'  Habit/Form: Broadly...

• 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...

• Sassafras

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants for Shady Sites, not favored by deer, Native Trees, Trees & Shrubs with Fabulous Fall Color
  Botanical Name: Sassafras albidumCommon Name: Sassafras Updated 12/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Fall form Leaves Fall color Winter form Bark Click on an image to...

• Persimmon

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Native Trees, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Diospyros virginianaCommon Name: Persimmon Updated 3/2012 Click on an image to enlarge bark form fruit fall color   Height: 30-50'  Spread: 40-50'  Habit/Form: Broadly...

• 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...

• 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: ...

• 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 Jetbead

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Intermediate Sized, Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name:  Rhodotypos scandens Common Name:  Black Jetbead Updated 12/2012   Form Winter form Flower Fruit Click on image to enlarge.Height: 3-5'  Spread:...

• Nannyberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Butterflies, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Viburnum lentagoCommon Name:  Nannyberry Updated 3/2013 Click on an image to enlarge form Height:  15-20'  Spread:  10-15'   Habit/Form:  Upright   Growth Rate: ...

• Hedge Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Maple
  Botanical Name: Acer campestreCommon Name:  Hedge Maple Updated 1/2012   Fall form Winter form Leaf Height:  20-35'  Spread: 20-35'  Habit/Form: Rounded to broad-rounded Growth rate:...

• Amur maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Acer ginnalaCommon Name:  Amur Maple Updated 1/2012   Summer form Fall form Fall leaf Leaf This tree is considered invasive in some areas.  One tree...