Woodies Midterm - Cultural Factors

Cultural identification factors for lists 1-5

Native to VT

Maples, pawpaw, smokebush, sumacs, chokecherry, American elderberry

Invasive

Norway maple, amur maple, callery pear, Tatarian honeysuckle, glossy buckthorn, common buckthorn, burning bush

Landscape plants

Eastern cottonwood, Lombardy black poplar, Japanese aralia, Fine Line buckthorn, common lilac

Sun plants (prefers sun)

Sumacs, amur maackia, winterberry, bayberry

Shade plants (prefers shade)

Aralias (variegated Japanese, devils-walkingstick, variegated fiveleaf)

Drought tolerant

Boxelder, catalpa, sweetgum, mulberry, buckthorns

Cold hardy

Sargent cherry, purple-leaf chokecherry, Korean maple

Wet site preference

Eastern cottonwood, willows, winterberry

Dry site preference

Ginkgo

Tardily deciduous

Dragon’s claw willow, fastigiate European hornbeam, Northern bayberry

Fall color

Eastern redbud, flowering dogwood, serviceberry, burning bush, oakleaf hydrangea

Spring flowering time

Serviceberry, forsythia, vernal witchhazel

Summer flowering time

Amur maackia, Japanese stewartia

Fall flowering time

Common witchhazel, seven-son flower

Showy flowers

Goldenraintree, lilacs, magnolias, weigela

Scented foliage

Smokebush, siebold viburnum, mockorange, northern bayberry

Showy foliage

SEM Ural falsespirea, tamarisk

Pollinator plants

Tuliptree, seven-son flower, witchhazels

Ornamental bark

River birch, paperbark maple, American planetree

Winter appeal

Winterberry, Washington hawthorn

Urban/street tolerant

Ginkgo, FT honeylocust, sargent cherry, staghorn sumac

Salt tolerant

Black locust, FT honeylocust, northern bayberry, sumacs

Edible characteristics

Corneliancherry dogwood, kousa dogwood, european pear, crabapple/apple, pawpaw, common persimmon

Fast growth rate

Eastern cottonwood, Lombardy black poplar, golden weeping willow, dragon’s claw willow

Prone to insect disease

Purple-leaf chokecherry, Washington hawthorn, chokecherries