Trees & Shrubs

Black Cherry

Prunus serotina

Black Cherries are native to the Midwest and Eastern United States. Their bark can be described as dark and scaly, and the tree is known to produce beautiful white flowers in the early spring that are replaced with small red fruit in the summer.

Eastern Black Walnut

Juglans nigra

Black Walnut trees are great for providing a large shady area around them. Their fruit is a round yellow-green color with a nut that squirrels like inside. They can be toxic to some plants and animals, however, due to a toxic chemical known as Juglone the tree produces.

Upland Trees/Shrubs

Coralberry

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Coralberry can be found in the Eastern US from New York, south to eastern Texas, and west to South Dakota and Colorado. The bush is small and mound-shaped and the berries are bitter and unpalatable.

Highbush Blackberry

Rubus argutus

The fruit on the Blackberry bush are a dark red that turns black as it gets ripe. The plant is either a vine or shrub with trailing stems which are nearly always thorny.

Button Bush

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Leaves are in pairs of three that are dark and glosy. It has white flower head. They are most commonly found in North America.

Silk Dog Wood

Cornus amomum

Dogwoods are most recognized for their cross-shaped white or pink bract. Up close you can spot its true flowers which look greenish-yellow clusters in the center. It grows in the central eastern part of the US.

Black Elder Berry

Sambucus canadensis

Elderberry can be identified by the characteristics on the leaves, which are oblong and have 'sawtooth' sharply serrated edges. They are arranged in opposite pairs with 5 to 7 leaves on each stem. In order to eat the Black Elder Berry they must be fully cooked.

Wetland Trees/Shrubs

Green ash

Fraxinus pennsylvanica

Red maple

Acer rubrum

Pin Oak

Quercus palustris

Black Willow

Salix nigra

Green ash is a large native tree that is very good at adapting to the environment. Their bark is light gray and textured. In the fall the leaves turn yellow to yellow-green, and they produce clusters of winged seeds for fruit.

A medium to large tree named for its distinctive red fall leaves, fruits, flowers and twigs. The bark of a young Red Maple is smooth. It's usually light ash-gray, almost silver. As the tree ages, it darkens, and eventually vertical cracks develop.

A popular shade tree, the pin oak grows to a height of 80 feet with glossy, dark green leaves, and tree bark is grayish-brown in color with a rough, ridged texture.

Black willow is named for its dark gray- brown bark, twigs are light-red, slender, and flexible. The leafs are narrow and green.

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