Local Native Trees, Shrubs & Vines

Plant Details
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Common Name Black Spruce
Botanical Name Picea mariana
An evergreen that can grow 30-40 feet high. It has short, tight, green needles with purple cones. Tight pyramidal shape. Can tolerate wet areas along ponds, swamps and bogs. Prefers cooler, northern climates. Does best in full sun.

Black Spruce Details
Black Spruce / Picea mariana Photo
Common Name Red Pine
Botanical Name Pinus resinosa
This pine is endangered in Connecticut. Grows 50-80 feet tall in full sun. Prefers sandy, acidic, well-drained soil. Produces monoecious flowers in the spring followed by brown pine cones. Provides excellent cover and is an important food source for animals and birds.

Red Pine Details
Common Name Pitch Pine
Botanical Name Pinus rigida
This native pine has a high resin content in its wood. It produces red/yellow, monoecious flowers in the spring and brown pine cones. This evergreen tree will grow to be 40-60 feet tall and 30-50 feet wide. It prefers a full sun location. it tolerates poor soil but prefers sandy, well-drained, acidic soils. it is also salt tolerant.

Pitch Pine Details
Pitch Pine / Pinus rigida Photo
Common Name Eastern White Pine
Botanical Name Pinus strobus
This evergreen has very fine textured, long needles. It can grow up to 100 feet high and 20-40 feet wide. Prefers full sun and likes fertile, moist, well-drained soils. Great screen plant or specimen. Grows fast!

Eastern White Pine Details
Eastern White Pine / Pinus strobus Photo
Common Name Sycamore
Botanical Name Platanus occidentalis
This tree has white, mottled bark. It grows 70-100 feet tall. Prefers sun to partial shade in moist soil.

Sycamore Details
Sycamore / Platanus occidentalis Photo
Common Name Beach Plum
Botanical Name Prunus maritima
This shrub grows 4-10 feet high with rounded, white flowers in May. Fruits are purple to yellow and sometimes crimson. They ripen in August. Great for jams and jellies. Great salt tolerance! Prefers sandy, rocky soil and full sun.

Beach Plum Details
Beach Plum / Prunus maritima Photo
Common Name Wild Black Cherry
Botanical Name Prunus serotina
Grows 40-60 feet tall. The shiny, dark green leaves smell like cherry soda when crushed! Fragrant, tiny, white flowers bloom on drooping clusters in the spring. Dark red cherries ripen later in the summer.

Wild Black Cherry Details
Wild Black Cherry / Prunus serotina Photo
Common Name Chokecherry
Botanical Name Prunus virginiana
This fast growing shrub can get to 20 feet tall. Produces white flowers in the spring that form dark edible berries at the end of summer. Berries are tart tasting! Prefers moist soil and plenty of sun.

Chokecherry Details
Chokecherry / Prunus virginiana Photo
Common Name White Oak
Botanical Name Quercus alba
An oak of true grandeur! This beauty can reach more than 80 feet tall and 40 feet wide. It can grow in bottomlands on slopes and upland forests. Its acorns are a great food source. The wood is strong and somewhat rot resistant. It looks good by itself in a field or in the forest. You can't go wrong with this tree!

White Oak Details
White Oak / Quercus alba Photo
Common Name Swamp White Oak
Botanical Name Quercus bicolor
This oak can grow in swamps and floodplains. It can reach 80 feet tall and 40 feet wide but grows very slowly due to the wet soils. This tree looks like the white oak with its gray bark but the leaves are long and skinny.

Swamp White Oak Details
Swamp White Oak / Quercus bicolor Photo
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