Shrubs / woody Flashcards
Red bearberry, kinnikinnick
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi,
Height: 3-6 in
Ornamental Value: Arctostaphylos is a wonderful evergreen groundcover for difficult, acidic, sandy, sunny locations. The flowers are attractive, small, and bell-shaped, and produce a profusion of large red berries in the fall.
Wildlife Benefits: The berries provide food for birds and mammals in late winter and deer will browse the foliage in winter. It serves as a host plant for 14 species of lepidopterans and is very interesting to the smaller of our native bees.
Host plant for hoary elfin moth.
Mapleleaf viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium,
Height: 3-6 ft
The three lobed, maple-like leaves lend this plant its common name. White flowers in the spring are followed by berries, maturing to a deep blue color. Its fall foliage is a vibrant red. From sun to shade, moist to dry, maple-leaved viburnum tends to grow anywhere
Attracts Wildlife
* Attracts Songbirds
* Pollinator Powerhouse Plant
* Other Pollinators/Wildlife
* Attracts Butterflies
* Attracts Bees
* Host Plant
Sweet pepperbush, summersweet
Clethra alnifolia
Height: 4-8 ft
Attracts Wildlife
* Host Plant
* Attracts Bees
* Attracts Butterflies
Tolerance
* Drought Tolerant
* Compaction Tolerant
* Urban Environment
* Salt Tolerant
The spicy, sweet scent of Clethra is its draw for humans and a massive profusion of pollinating insects. Sweet pepper-bush is a widespread coastal and freshwater wetland plant, but it tolerates drought well once established, and its profusion of late summer blooms becomes a point of anticipation
Sweet fern
Comptonia peregrina,
Height: 1-3 ft
Comptonia’s leaves emanate a slightly citrusy, pungently herbal aroma.
Attracts Wildlife
* Attracts Songbirds
* Host Plant
Tolerance
* Salt Tolerant
* Drought Tolerant
* Urban Environment
* Deer/Rabbit Resistant
Exposure
* Sun
* Part Shade
Soil Moisture
* Average
* Dry
American hazelnut
Corylus americana
Height: 5-9 ft
Hazelnut has tiny, beautiful red-purple and yellow-green flowers that bloom early, even before many spring ephemerals. Its habit is tiered, multi-stemmed and clumping. An excellent choice for naturalizing, it provides nuts and cover for a variety of animals.
Ornamental Interest
* Fall Foliage
Attracts Wildlife
* Host Plant
* Other Pollinators/Wildlife
* Attracts Songbirds
* Pollinator Powerhouse Plant
Exposure
* Sun
* Part Shade
Soil Moisture
* Dry
* Average
Bush Honeysuckle
Diervilla lonicera
Wintergreen
Gaultheria procumbens
Mountain Holly
Ilex mucronata
Winterberry Holly
Ilex verticillata
Spicebush
Lindera benzoin
Bayberry
Morella pensylvanica
Fragrant sumac
Rhus aromatica
Staghorn sumac
Rhus hirta
Black elderberry
Sambucus nigra
Silky dogwood
Swida amomum
Lowbush blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolium
Highbush blueberry
Vaccinium corymbosum
Hobblebush
Viburnum lantanoides
Red Chokeberry
Aronia arbutifolia
Black Chokeberry
Aronia melanocarpa
Eastern Shadbush/Canada Serviceberry
Amelanchier canadensis
Smooth Shadbush/Smooth Serviceberry
Amelanchier laevis
Black Huckleberry
Gaylussacia baccata
Witch hazel
Hamamelis virginiana
Labrador Tea
Rhododendron groenlandicum
Swamp Azalea
Rhododendron viscosum
Pagoda Dogwood
Swida alternafolia
Gray Dogwood
Swida racemosa
Smooth Arrowwood
Viburnum dentatum
Maple-leaved Viburnum
Viburnum acerifolium
Beach Plum
Prunus maritima
A small, hardy shrub with white flowers and edible fruit; attracts pollinators and wildlife.
Mountain Laurel
Kalmia latifolia
An evergreen shrub with beautiful pink to white flowers; provides shelter and nesting sites for birds.
Red Oak
Quercus rubra
A large, long-lived tree that provides essential habitat and food for various wildlife species, including insects, birds, and mammals.
Shrubby St. John’s-wort
Hypericum prolificum
A compact shrub with bright yellow flowers; attracts pollinators and provides cover for wildlife.
Bees, especially bumble bees love
Bluish foliage
Soils: pretty adaptable
Full sun for full profusion of flower
Dwarf Fothergilla
Fothergilla gardenii
Common name:
Witch alder (so called because of its similarity to witch hazel, which belongs to the same plant family)
Plant type:
Deciduous shrub
Native area: Eastern and southeastern U.S.
Exposure: Full sun to part shade
Mature size:
2 to 3 feet tall and wide
Growth rate: Slow
Bloom time:
Early to mid-spring, with the flowers lasting 2 to 3 weeks
Special attributes:
Attracts bees and butterflies
Deer resistant
New Jersey Tea
Ceanothus americanus
A small shrub with fragrant white flowers; attracts pollinators and provides cover for wildlife.
poor soils
fixes nitrogen
full sun, possibly some shade
cluster of white flowers in June
Rounding
4’x5’
nutlets that break open to shed seeds
grows well with sweetfern
Speckled Alder
Alnus incana
Rough textured leaves
Wetland plant
erosion control on banks of a pond
will form dense thickets
prominent lenticels like a birch
Flowers in early spring
form cones like pine cones
not a flashy native shrub
cover for wildlife (nests birds in wetlands)
Up to 10’
