Serviceberry
Amelanchier spp
Black Chokeberry
Aronia melanocarpa
Blue Beech
Carpinus caroliniana
Serviceberry is a woodland
genus of shrubs and small
trees, many with suckering
growths creating small
colonies. Their star-shaped,
flat to saucer shaped flowers
are usually white with some
pink blushing. Leaves turn a
nice yellow-orange in fall and
are accompanied by fruit that
ripens in summer and is
edible in some species.
Native to eastern North
America commonly found in
wet woods and swamps.
Chokeberries are cultivated as
ornamental plants and as food
products. They pack a large
amount of vitamins and
minerals obtained through the
skin of the berry.
Blue Beech may also be
known as musclewood for its
muscle-like ridges on the
smooth-gray trunks, and if
often confused as a small
beech tree. Leaves are bluishgreen, with fine teeth, and
becoming successively larger
along the shoots.
Buttonbush
Cephalanthus Occidentalis
Alternate Leaved Dogwood
Cornus alternifolia
Silky Dogwood
Cornus amomum
Buttonbush is an elegant
ornamental suited to wet soils
and is also a honey plant. It is
valued for controlling erosion
of shorelines, it contains
poisonous foliage
Cephalathin, which is
unpalatable to livestock.
Often used for medicines.
The growth form is very
distinctive because the nearly
horizontal branches, although
alternate, tend to develop in
groups of 3-5 very close together,
followed by a relatively long
section of trunk with no branches,
and followed by another
aggregation of branches.
The Silky Dogwood is a broad-leaf
shrub that can be found in shrub
wetlands, moist woods, streams
and pond banks. It produces a
yellowish white flower from May
to July. The Silky Dogwood has a
fast growth rate, typically 2 feet a
year and it transplants well.
Round Leaf Dogwood
Cornus rugosa
Red Osier Dogwood
Cornus sericea
The Gray Dogwood is used for
naturalizing wild areas and the
berries are excellent food for song
birds. It also tolerates a wide
variety of conditions, making it
suitable in just about any open
sunny place, or even light shade.
A medium sized shrub, growing
to 1 - 3 metres tall. Twigs
yellowish- to reddish-green,
streaked with purple, roughtextured; pith relatively large,
white; buds greenish; leaf scars
broadly-U-shaped, with 3 bundle
trace scars.
Distinctive for its red/purple
shiny branches in spring, fall
and winter, this shrub is not
only a beautiful ornamental; it
is a vital environmental
species. Leaves are green until
fall, turn to a beautiful red
colour.
American Hazelnut
Corylus Americana
Witch Hazel
Hamemelis virginiana
Bayberry
Myrica Pensylvanica
American hazelnut is easily
grown in average, medium,
well-drained soil in full sun to
part shade. Prompt removal of
root suckers will help maintain
plant appearance, and, if
desired, help prevent thicket
formation.
A native small tree or large
shrub with fantastic fall
attributes. Yellow, fragrant
flowers bloom from October
through December.
Bayberry is mostly used for shrub
boarder, a foundation plant, for
difficult growing sites, seashore
landscapes, along roadsides and
mass plantings.
Bayberry, also known as wax
myrtle, waxberry, or candleberry,
is both a shrub and a tree.
Gray Dogwood
Cornus racemosa
Ninebark
Physocarpus opulifolius
Sumac
Rhus typhina
Smooth Rose
Rosa blanda
Ninebark is very adaptable to
undemanding only asking for
as much as possible and
average soil a little in the acid
range. Its drought tolerant
after establishment and very
long lived. It can be
transplanted at any time but
the ideal time is when it’s
dormant.
Sumac is any one of
approximately 35 species of
flowering plants in the genus
Rhus and related genera, in
the family Anacardiaceae.
The leaves are spirally; they
usually pinnately compound,
though some species have
trifoliate or simple leaves.
The smooth or early wild rose,
is found in similar habitats. Its
upper branches are usually
smooth or bear just a few
scattered prickles, but the
bases of older stems may be
armed with several straight
prickles.
Bebb’s Willow
Salix bebbiana
Elderberry
Sambucus canadenis
Snowberry
Symphoricarpos albus
The twigs on a willow are soft,
slender, and they bend easily.
A willow has thin branches.
The leaves are narrow and
grow alternately on the
branch. Some leaves have
serrated edges.
The bark of an elderberry is light
grey when young, changes to a
coarse grey outer bark with
lengthwise furrowing. The leaves
are arranged in opposite pairs,
10–30 cm long, pinnate with five
to seven (rarely nine) leaflets,
the leaflets 5–12 cm long and 3–
5 cm broad, with a serrated
margin.
Snowberry is a delicate
looking plant with a quietly
enchanting quality. The small
clusters of pink flowers in the
spring become the egg-white
berries of late summer which
last on the plant until nearly
spring.