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Articles tagged Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs

• Blackhaw Viburnum

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

• Peking Lilac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Four Season Landscape
   Botanical Name: Syringa pekinensis Common Name: Peking Lilac 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 or Hop-Hornbeam

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants for Shady Sites, not favored by deer, Native Trees, Intermediate Sized Trees, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Ostrya virginiana*Common Name: Ironwood, Hop-Hornbeam   Form Fall Leaves Fruit     Catkins Bark Click on an image to enlarge Height: 25-30' ...

• Bayberry

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

• Shagbark HIckory

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

• River Birch

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

• Rugosa Rose

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

• Fragrant Sumac

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

• European Larch

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

• Common Bald Cypress

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

• 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: Native Trees, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Gymnocladus dioicus Common Name: Kentucky Coffeetree* Click on an image to enlarge. Form Leaf Fall leaf   Fruit Bark Height: 50-60 Spread: 40-50' Habit/Form: Broad to wide...

• White Oak

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

• Swamp White Oak

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

• Bur Oak

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

• English Oak

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Quercus, Oak
  Botanical Name: Quercus robur Common Name: English Oak Click on an image to enlarge Winter form Leaf Fruit Height: 40-60' Spread: 50-60' Habit/Form: Rounded to spreading Growth rate: S/M Zones: 4-8Cultural requirements: ...

• Chinese Juniper

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: large evergreen, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Juniperus chinensis Common Name: Chinese Juniper Click on an image to enlarge. Form Needles Bark Height: 50-60' Spread: 15-20'Habit/Form: pyramidal to conical Rate: S/M Zone: 4-9Cultural Requirements: ...

• Colorado Spruce

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: large evergreen, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
   Botanical Name: Picea pungens Common Name: Colorado Spruce Click on an image to enlarge Form Needles Bark Height: 30-60' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Broad pyramidal Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 3-7Cultural...

• 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 reticulataCommon Name: Japanese Tree Lilac   Height: 20-25' Spread: 15-25' Habit/Form: Oval to Rounded Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 3 to 7Cultural Requirements: Best flowering occurs in full sun, but tolerant of...

• 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: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, large evergreen, Native Trees, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name: Thuja occidentalisCommon Name: Eastern Arborvitae Click on an image to enlarge Form Needles Bark Height: 40-60' Spread: 15-25' Habit/Form: Narrow, conical becoming pyramidal with age Growth Rate:...

• Shrubby Cinquefoil

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: native, Low growing shrubs, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name:Potentilla fruticosa Common Name: Shrubby Cinquefoil 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; tolerates many soil conditions...

• Black Chokeberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, native, Low growing shrubs
  Botanical Name: Aronia melanocarpaCommon Name: Black Chokeberry Reviewed 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...

• Black Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Native Trees
  Botanic 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 Viburnum

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Butterflies, Viburnums
  Botanical Name: Viburnum dentatum Common Name: Southern Arrowwood Viburnum 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 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 Zone:...

• Staghorn Sumac

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Four Season Landscape
  Rhus typhinaCommon Name: Staghorn Sumac 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 Zone: 4-8Cultural Requirements:...

• 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: Native Trees, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
   Botanic 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
  Botanic Name:  Nyssa sylvaticaCommon Name:  Tupelo Click on an image to enlarge form in fall color leaves Height: 30-50' Spread 25-30' Habit/Form: Pyramidal Growth Rate: S/M Zone: 4-9Cultural Requirements: Found...

• Saucer Magnolia

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Intermediate Sized Trees, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
   Botanic Name:  Magnolia x soulangianaCommon Name:  Saucer Magnolia Click on an image to enlarge Form Winter form Flower Height: 25-30' Spread 15-25' Habit/Form: Spreading Growth Rate: Medium (13...

• 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
  Botanic Name: Liquidambar styracifluaCommon Name: Sweet Gum Click on an image to enlarge leaves fall color fruits   Height: 60-70'Spread: 30-45'Form: Pyramidal to roundedRate: Medium to Fast (18 to 25 inches a...

• Black Walnut

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Native Trees, Butterflies
  Botanic Name: Juglans nigraCommon Name: Black Walnut Click on an image to enlarge form form fruit leaves bark   Height: 50-70'Spread: 30-50'Form: Broadly rounded to ovalRate: Medium (13 to 22...

• 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
  Botanic Name: Platanus occidentalisCommon Name: Sycamore Click on an image to enlarge form leaf in winter Height: 75-100'Spread: 50-75'Form: Irregular spreadingRate: Medium to Fast (18 to 25 inches a year)Zone:...

• Sassafras

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

• Persimmon

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Native Trees
  Botanic 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: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Summer-Flowering Trees & Shrubs, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, Intermediate Sized, Butterflies, Four Season Landscape
   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'  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 trilobu*Common Name: American Cranberry-Bush   Form Leaves & flowers Fruit Click on an image to enlarge. Height:  8-12'Spread:  8-12'Fuit:  Red (Exceptional)Fall Color: ...

• 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   Form Leaf   Fruit Bark Click an image to enlarge.Height:  6-10' Spread:  6-10' Form: ...

• Black Jetbead

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Intermediate Sized, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Botanical Name:  Rhodotypos scandens Common Name:  Black Jetbead   Form Winter form Flower Fruit Click on image to enlarge.Height:  3-5' Spread:  4-8' Form: ...

• Nannyberry Viburnum

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs, native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Butterflies, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanic Name: Viburnum lentagoCommon Name:  Nannyberry Viburnum Click on an image to enlarge form Height:  15-20' Spread:  10-15' Form:  Upright Rate:  Medium (6-12 inches per year)Zone:  3-7...

• Hedge Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Maple, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  Hedge mapleAcer campestre Updated 1/2012   Fall form Winter form Leaf Height:  20-35'  Spread: 20-35'  Habit/Form: Rounded to broad-rounded Growth rate: slow Zone: 5-8 Cultural...

• Amur maple

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