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Species
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Habitat
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Soil
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Growth Form
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Use
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Nannyberry Viburnum lentago
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moist to well- drained sandy soils
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wetlands, forest edges, thickets, streambanks
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erect, suckering shrub, height up to 6m
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food for wildlife, erosion control, naturalization
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Alternate- leaved dogwood Cornus alternifolia
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well-drained soils
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hillsides, ravine slopes, open forests, thickets
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multi-stemmed shrub, height up to 6m
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food for wildlife, erosion control
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Grey dogwood Cornus racemosa
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moist to well- drained sandy soils
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roadsides, fencerows, streambanks,
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multi-stemmed shrub, height up to 3m
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food for wildlife, erosion control, naturalization
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Red osier dogwood Cornus sericea
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fertile, acidic soils, moist to wet sites
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variable, most moist to wet sites
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multi-stemmed shrub, height up to 3m
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food for wildlife, erosion control, naturalization
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Highbush cranberrry Viburnum trilobum
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fertile, moist soils
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streambanks, open woods, thickets, around wetlands
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multi-stemmed suckering shrub, height up to 4m
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food for wildlife, erosion control, naturalization
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Common elderberry Sambucus canadensis
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sandy to loamy acidic soils
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forest edges, roadsides, wetlands, thickets
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multi-stemmed shrub, height up to 4m
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food and cover for wildlife, naturalization
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Serviceberry Amelanchier spp.
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moist to dry sandy, acidic soils
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wide variety of sites
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multi-stemmed shrub, height up to 3m
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food for wildlife, aesthetics
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Chokecherry Prunus virginiana
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grows in well- drained to moist soils
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wide variety of sites
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multi-stemmed tree that form thickets, height up to 3m
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food for wildlife, erosion control, aesthetics
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Pussy willow Salix discolor
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moist sandy, silty, or gravelly soils
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along streambanks, wet thickets
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multi-stemmed tree, height up to 6m
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erosion control, naturalization
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Heart-leaved willow Salix cordata
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moist sandy, silty, or gravelly soils
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banks and shores of streams
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multi-stemmed tree, height up to 3m
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erosion control, naturalization
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Sandcherry Prunus pumila
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dry and wet conditions
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wide variety of sites
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low spreading shrub, height up to 2m
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foood for wildlife, naturalization, erosion control
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Staghorn sumac Rhus typhina
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can grow in very dry, poor conditions
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open fields, ridges, streambanks, forest edges
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erect, suckering tree, height up to 3m
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for wildlife, erosion control, naturalization, food
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Silverberry Elaeagnus commutata
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dry, sandy, gravelly, clayey soils
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streambanks, clearings, edges of thickets
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upright, shrub that forms thickets, height up to 2m
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naturalization, erosion control
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Snowberry Symphoricarpos albus
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dry sandy, gravelly soils
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thickets, well drained slopes and ridges
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low, multi-stemmed suckering shrub, height up to 1m
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winter food for wildlife, erosion control
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