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Articles tagged Plants for Shady Sites

• European Black Alder

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Intermediate Sized Trees, birds
  Botanic Name: Alnus glutinosaCommon Name: European black alder Updated 2/2012 Click on an image to enlarge form leaves catkins and fruits   bark Height: 40-50' Spread: 20-40' Habit/Form:...

• 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 Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fruits Height: 20-25' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Oval, multi-trunked tree Growth Rate: Slow Zone: 4 to...

• Eastern 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: Eastern Redbud Click on an image to enlarge flowers fall color fruits bark   Height: 15-20'  Spread: 18-25'  Habit/Form: Rounded to vase shaped,...

• 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) Click on an image to enlarge leaves and fruit fall color flowers bark Height: 25-35' (often smaller) Spread:...

• 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 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: ...

• Bottlebrush Buckeye

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Plants for Shady Sites, Summer-Flowering Trees & Shrubs, Trees & Shrubs with Fabulous Fall Color
  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: Large Deciduous Shrubs, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Plants for Shady Sites, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
  Botanical Name: Chionanthus virginicusCommon Name: Fringe Tree Click on an image to enlarge form flower fruit Height: 12-20' Spread: 10-20' Habit/Form: Oval to wide spreading shrub or small tree Growth...

• Foamflower

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Tiarella cordifolia Common Name: Foamflower Flower Leaf Click to enlarge image

• 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 *Native to Midwest Form Leaf Click to enlarge image.

• Trumpet Vine

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Campsis radicans Common Name: Trumpet Vine Form Flower Leaf Fruit Bark Click to enlarge image

• Wafer-Ash

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Native Trees, Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Ptelea trifoliata*Common Name: Wafer-Ash Click on image to enlarge Form Fruit Leaf Height: 15-20'Spread: 10-15'Form: RoundedRate: Slow to Medium (12 to 18 inches a year)Zone:...

• Lily-of-the-Valley

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Convallaria majalis Common Name: Lily-of-the-Valley Flower Leaf Fruit Click to enlarge image.

• 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: large evergreen, Plants for Shady Sites
   Botanical Name: Pseudotsuga menziesiiCommon Name: Douglas-fir   Height: 40-80' Spread: 15-20' Habit/Form: Broadly conical to pyramidal Growth Rate: Medium Zone: 3-6Cultural Requirements: Prefers full sun to light shade in moist,...

• Goldflame Honeysuckle

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Lonicera x heckrottii Common Name: Goldflame Honeysuckle Form Flower Click to enlarge image

• Star Magnolia

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

• 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...

• Allegheny Serviceberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Butterflies, Native Trees
  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 for Shady Sites, Native Trees, Intermediate Sized Trees, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Plants Tolerant of Wet 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: Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites, Plants for Shady Sites, native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds
  Botanical Name: Cornus racemosa Common Name: Gray Dogwood Click on an imae to enlarge form flowers fall color Height: 10-15' Spread: 10-15' Habit/Form: Multi-stemmed, upright spreading Growth Rate: Slow (Less than 6...

• Apple Serviceberry

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Four Season Landscape, Butterflies, Plants for Shady Sites, Salt-Tolerant Trees and Shrubs
  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: Columnars, Fastigiates, Four Season Landscape, Plants for Shady Sites
  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   Click on an image to enlarge form flowers fall color Height: 15-25' Spread: 20-25' Habit/Form: Oval, most commonly found as multi-trunked. Unique...

• 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   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. Plants are very...

• Purple Coneflower

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical name: Echinacea purpurea* Common Name: Purple Coneflower *Native to Midwest Habit Flower Leaf Click to enlarge image

• Carolina Silverbell

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Black walnut toxicity tolerant, Plants Tolerant of Wet Sites
   Botanical Name: Halesia tetrapteraCommon Name: Carolina Silverbell 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: Plants for Shady Sites, Intermediate-Sized Evergreens for the Home Landsca, Yew
  Botanical Name: Taxus x mediaCommon Name: Anglo-Japanese Yew Height: 15-20' Spread: 5-15' Habit/Form: Spreading Growth Rate: Slow Zone: 4-7Cultural Requirements: Best grown in sun to part shade in well-drained soil. Will not tolerate wet...

• Three-Flowered Maple

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, Four Season Landscape
  Botanic Name:  Acer triflorum Common 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
   Botanic Name:  Aesculus paviaCommon Name: Red Buckeye Updated 2/2012 Click on an image leaf spring form   winter form flower Height:  10-20'  Spread: ...

• 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:...

• 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
  Botanic Name: Asimina trilobaCommon Name: Pawpaw Click on an image to enlarge form leaves leaves in fall flowers fruits bark Height:  5-20'Spread:  15-20'Form: ...

• 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 Click image to enlarge form leaf   fruit trunk Height: 6-12'Spread: 12-18'Form: Upright archingRate: Medium (6 to 12 inches per...

• Summersweet

  | 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 form flower Fall leaves Click on image to enlarge.Height:  6-8'Spread:  4-6'Form:  Oval to roundedRate:  Slow (Less than 6 inches per...

• Bleeding Heart

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical name: Dicentra spectabilis* Commong Name: Bleeding Heart *Native to Midwest Flower Leaf Click to enlarge image

• Virginia Creeper

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, native, Vines
  Botanic Name:  Parthenocissus quinquefolia Common Name:  Virginia Creeper* Form Leaf Fall leaf *Given the right conditions, these vines can be aggressive and control may be necessary.Click on an...

• Boston Ivy

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: native, Plants for Shady Sites, Vines
  Botanical Name: Parthenocissus tricuspidataCommon Name:  Boston-IvyClick on an image to enlarge. Form Leaf Fall leaf Height:  30-50'Attachment:  Clinging, holdfastsFlower:  Small, ...

• Eastern Wahoo

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

• 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 Bladdernut

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites, native, Large Deciduous Shrubs, Midwest
  Botanical Name:  Staphylea trifolia*Common Name:  American Bladdernut Click on an image to enlarge Form Leaf Fruit Bark Height: 10-15' Spread: 6-12' Habit/Form: Upright,...

• 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 Form Flower Fall leaves   Leaf Fruit Click on an image to enlarge.Height: ...

• American Hazelnut

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Trees and Shrubs That Attract Birds, Interesting Fruits of Trees & Shrubs, Intermediate Sized, native, Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical name:  Corylus americana* Commonname:  American Hazelnut   Form Leaf Leaf in fall   Fruit Catikin Bark Click on image to enlarge. Height: ...

• 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   Form Flower   Leaf Leaf in fall Click on image to enlarge.Height:  5-8' Spread:  4-8' Form: ...

• 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: ...

• 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: not favored by deer, native, Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name:  Symphoricarpos albus*Common Name: Snowberry   Leaf & flower Fruit Click on image to enlarge* Native to Midwest

• Climbing Hydrangea

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: Plants for Shady Sites
  Botanical Name: Hydrangea petiolaris (syn. Hydrangea petiolaris subsp. petiolaris) Common Name: Climbing Hydrangea Click on an image to enlarge flowers Height: 20-30' Growth Rate: S  Habit/Form: climbing vine...

• Sweet-fern

  | Category: Tree & Plant Selection | Tags: native, Low growing shrubs, Plants for Shady Sites
  Common Name:Sweet-fernBotanical Name:Comptonia peregrina Form Leaf Height: 2-4' Spread: 4-8' Form: Erect spreading Rate: Slow (less than 6 inches per year)/Medium (6-12 inches per year)Zone: 2-5 Cultural comments: Sun to...