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Articles tagged Plants for Shady 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)...

• Plants for Shady Sites

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Don’t let anyone tell you that planting in shade is a problem. Don’t believe for an instant that shade gardens are boring or that your plant selections are limited. Nature is the best demonstrator for the possibilities of shade-loving plants....

• 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...

• Bottlebrush Buckeye

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees & Shrubs with Fabulous Fall Color, Summer-Flowering Trees & Shrubs, Plants for Shady Sites, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Aesculus parviflora Common Name: Bottlebrush Buckeye Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fall color Height: 8-12' Spread: 12-15' Habit/Form: Broad, spreading Growth Rate: Slow ...

• 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...

• Heart-leaved Foamflower

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Tiarella cordifoliaCommon Name: Heart-leaved Foamflower Updated 1/2013   Flower Leaf Click to enlarge image Height: 6-12"  Spread:  6-12"  Habit/Form:  rounded  Growth...

• Maidenhair Fern

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Adiantum pedatum* Common Name: Maidenhair Fern Updated 1/2012 *Native to Midwest Form Leaf Close-up leaf Click to enlarge image Height: 1-2'  Spread:  1-1.5' Habit/Form:...

• Lady Fern

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Athyrium filix-femina* Common Name: Lady Fern Updated 2/2012 *Native to Midwest Form Leaf Click to enlarge image. Height: 1-3'  Spread: 1-2'  Habit/Form:  Upright  Zone: 4-8 Cultural...

• Trumpet Vine

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Campsis radicans Common Name: Trumpet Vine Updated 2/2012   Form Flower Leaf   Fruit Bark Click to enlarge image Height:  30-40'  Attachment: Aerial...

• Wafer-Ash

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Native Trees
  Botanical Name: Ptelea trifoliata*Common Name: Wafer-Ash Updated 12/2012 Click on image to enlarge Form Fruit Leaf Height: 15-20'  Spread: 10-15'  Habit/Form: Rounded  Growth Rate: Slow to...

• Lily-of-the-Valley

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Convallaria majalis Common Name: Lily-of-the-Valley Updated 3/2012 Flower Leaf Fruit Click to enlarge image. Height: 6-12"  Spread: 12"+  Habit/Form:  ground cover ...

• Bugleweed

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Ajuga reptans Common Name: Bugleweed Updated 2/2012 Note: Images are of blue bugleweed Flower Close-up flower Leaf Click on image to enlarge Height: 3-4"  Habit/Form: spreading ...

• Douglas-fir

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, large evergreen
  Botanical Name: Pseudotsuga menziesiiCommon Name: Douglas-fir Updated 12/2012 needles cones form Height: 40-80' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Broadly conical to pyramidal  Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 3-6Cultural...

• Goldflame Honeysuckle

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Lonicera x heckrottii Common Name: Goldflame Honeysuckle Updated 10/2012 Form Flower Click to enlarge image   Height:  10-20'  Attachment: Twining stems  Habit/Form: climbing vine ...

• Star Magnolia

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Magnolia stellata Common Name: Star Magnolia Updated 10/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Leaves Height: 8-10'  Spread: 10-12'  Habit/Form: Round to spreading  Growth Rate: Slow  Zone: 4-8...

• 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:...

• Allegheny Serviceberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Native Trees, Butterflies, Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Amelanchier laevis Common Name:Allegheny Serviceberry* Reviewed 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Fall form Flower Fall leaf Height: 20-25  Spread: 15-18'  Habit/Form: Upright  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:...

• 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...

• 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...

• Paperbark Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Four Season Landscape, Fastigiates, Columnars
  Botanical Name: Acer griseum Common Name: Paperbark Maple Updated 1/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Summer Form Winter Form Fruit   Summer leaves Fall Leaves Bark Height:...

• Pagoda Dogwood

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Plants for Shady Sites, Native Trees, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Butterflies, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name: Cornus alternifoliaCommon Name: Pagoda Dogwood Upated 3/2012   Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fall color Height: 15-25' Spread: 20-25' Habit/Form: Oval, most commonly found as...

• 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....

• Purple Coneflower

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical name: Echinacea purpurea* Common Name: Purple Coneflower Updated 3/2012 *Native to Midwest Habit Flower Leaf Click to enlarge image Height: 2-4 feet  Spread:  1-2 feet ...

• 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...

• Anglo-Japanese Yew

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Yew, Intermediate-Sized Evergreens for the Home Landsca, Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Taxus x mediaCommon Name: Anglo-Japanese Yew Updated 1/2013 Caution: The leaves, bark and seeds of all yews are poisonous.Height: 15-20' Spread: 5-15' Habit/Form: Spreading Growth Rate: Slow Zone: 4-7Cultural Requirements: Best...

• Three-Flowered Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Four Season Landscape
  Botanical Name:  Acer triflorumCommon Name:  Three-Flowered Maple or Shaggy-barked Maple Updated 1/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form fall color bark Height:  20-25' Spread:  20-25'...

• 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'...

• 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...

• 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...

• Bleeding Heart

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical name: Lamprocapnos spectabilis (Dicentra spectabilis) Common Name: Bleeding Heart Updated 3/2012 *Native to Midwest Flower Leaf Click to enlarge image Height : 1.5 feet  Spread: 2.5 feet ...

• Virginia Creeper

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, native, Vines
  Botanical Name:  Parthenocissus quinquefolia Common Name:  Virginia Creeper* Updated 11/2012 Form Leaf Fall leaf *Given the right conditions, these vines can be aggressive and control may be...

• Boston-Ivy

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: native, Plants for Shady Sites, Vines
  Botanical Name: Parthenocissus tricuspidataCommon Name:  Boston-Ivy Updated 11/2012Click on an image to enlarge. Form Leaf Fall leaf Attachment:  Clinging with holdfasts  Habit/Form: Climbing...

• Wahoo

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Large Deciduous Shrubs, Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name:  Euonymus atropurpureusCommon Name:  Wahoo Updated 4/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Form Leaf in fall Fruit Bark   Height: 12-20' Spread: 10-20'...

• 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 Bladdernut

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Midwest, Large Deciduous Shrubs, native, Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name:  Staphylea trifolia*Common Name:  American Bladdernut Updated 12/2012 Click on an image to enlarge Form Leaf Fruit Bark Height: 10-15' 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 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...

• American Hazelnut

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, native, Intermediate Sized, Interesting Fruits of Trees & Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical name:  Corylus americana*Common Name:  American Hazelnut Updated 3/2012   Form Leaf Leaf in fall   Fruit Catikin Bark Click on 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 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:...

• Witherrod Viburnum

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: native, Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name:  Viburnum cassinoides* Common Name:  Witherrod Viburnum Form Flower Leaf Click on image to enlarge.* Native to Midwest

• White-Forsythia

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name:  Abeliophyllum distichum Common Name:  White-Forsythia Updated 1/2012 Form Flower Click on an image to enlarge. Height: 3-5'  Spread: 3-4'  Habit/Form: Rounded to arching ...

• Snowberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, native, not favored by deer
  Botanical Name:  Symphoricarpos albus*Common Name: Snowberry Updated 12/2012   Leaf & flower Fruit Click on image to enlarge Height:  3-6'  Spread:  3-6'  Habit/Form:  Rounded...

• Climbing Hydrangea

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Hydrangea petiolaris Common Name: Climbing Hydrangea Updated 6/2012 Click on an image to enlarge flowers Height:  30-80'  Attachment:  aerial rootlets  Habit/Form: climbing vine...

• Sweet-fern

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: native, Low growing shrubs, Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name:Comptonia peregrinaCommon Name: Sweet-Fern Updated 3/2012 Form Leaf Height: 2-4'  Spread: 4-8'  Habit/Form: Erect spreading  Growth Rate: Slow/Medium Zone: 2-5 Cultural requirements: Sun to part...