Wildlife Shrubs

(25-60cm bare root stock)

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