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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: Four Season Landscape, Butterflies, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
   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:...

• Redbud

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: small ornamental trees, native, Native Trees, not favored by deer, ornamental, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Cercis canadensis Common Name: Redbud Reviewed 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: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, Native Trees, Intermediate Sized Trees, Four Season Landscape
   Botanic 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
  Common Name: Purple-flowering RaspberryBotanical Name: Rubus odoratus Click on photo to enlarge Habit Flower Leaf Plant tolerant of flooded areas for extended periods of time.

• 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: 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: ...

• 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: 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...

• 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...

• 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: 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...

• 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 Click on an image to enlarge Form Flower Leaf Height: 10-20'  Spread: 10-20'  Habit/Form: Upright, spreading  Growth Rate: Medium...

• White Spruce

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

• 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
  Botanic name: Liriodendron tulipiferaCommon Name: Tulip-tree Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fall color Height: 70-90' Spread: 25-30' Habit/Form: Rounded to oval Growth rate: F Zones: 4-9Cultural...

• 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: 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:...

• Eastern Hemlock

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

• 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...

• 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: Low growing shrubs, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Itea virginica Common Name: Virginia Sweetspire 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, but is tolerant of dry soils...

• 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...

• 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 Tolerant of Wet Sites, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Plants for Shady 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: Native Trees, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites
   Botanic Name:  Aesculus paviaCommon Name: Red Buckeye Updated 2/2012 Click on an image leaf spring form   winter form flower Height:  10-20'  Spread: ...

• 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...

• 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:...

• Pawpaw

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Native Trees, Interesting Fruits of Trees & Shrubs, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanic 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'  Spread: ...

• 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: 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...

• Possum-haw

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, native, Midwest, Large Deciduous Shrubs, birds, Four Season Landscape
  Bonatical name:  Ilex deciduaCommon Name:  Possum-haw Click on image to enlarge. Form Leaf Fruit Height: 10-15'+ Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Rounded Rate: Medium (6-12 inches per year) Zone:...

• Spicebush

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, not favored by deer, native, Midwest, Large Deciduous Shrubs, butterfly, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name:  Lindera benzoin *Common Name:  Spicebush   Click on image to enlarge Winter form Fall form Fall leaf   Fruit Bark Height: 6-12' Spread: 6-12' ...

• 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: ...

• 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 Tolerant of Wet Sites, Intermediate Sized, native, not favored by deer, Plants for Shady 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   Form Leaf   Fruit Bark Click an image to enlarge.Height:  6-10' Spread:  6-10' Form: ...

• Black Spruce

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

• Silver Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Common Name: Silver MapleBotanical name: Acer saccharinum 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: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Butterflies
  Common Name: Sweet BirchBotanical Name: Betula lenta 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
  Common Name: Quaking AspenBotanical Name: Populus tremuloides   Summer form Winter form Leaf Bark Plant tolerant of occasional or temporary flooding

• Pecan

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  PecanCarya illinoensis Updated 2/2012 Summer form Winter form Leaf   Fall leaf Catkins Fruit Height: 75-100'  Spread:  50-75'  Habit/Form:  Oval to...

• 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
  Common Name: American ElmBotanical Name: Ulmus americana Summer form Fall form Winter form Bark Plant tolerant of occasional or temporary flooding

• Coralberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, deer, Low growing shrubs, native, not favored by deer, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Common Name: CoralberryBotanical Name: Symphoricarpos orbiculatus* Form Winter form Fruit Click an image to enlarge Height: 2-5' Spread: 4-8' Form: Upright arching Rate:Fast (more than 12 inches per year)Zone: 2-7...