Habitat management: Plant Stats

Sweetgum

Dominant over-story species

Useless to most wildlife

Produce in late summer

Red Maple

Shade-intolerant

No wildlife value all that much

Produce in spring

Tulip Poplar

Low wildlife value

Big flower in spring important to pollinators

Feeds wildlife if needed

American Beech

VALUABLE

Hard mast in Fall

Cavity producing tree

Everything likes it

Sawbrier

High-Quality to some birds

Moderate deer browse

Mast in Fall

Partially evergreen

Sassafras

Shade-intolerant

Japanese Stiltgrass

WORST exotic invasive

Worthless

Muscadine

Low quality deer forage

Anything will take it in the fall

Lots of sugars

Makes structure in canopy for squirrels

Hickory

Shade- intolerant

Nut with husk in fall

Squirrel like it

Not like super important to wildlife

Privet

Highly preferred browse

Replaced switchcane

Wet areas

Ornamental

American Woodcock like it

Dogwood

Rodents like the mast

Understory dominant

Redbud

Nitrogen-fixing plant

Seeds useless to wildlife

CRITICAL POLLINATOR PLANT

Sawtooth oak

Good for bow hunting lands

Redcedar

Low quality

Underpreferred

Cedar Wax-wings like it

DONT BURN WHEN LIVE

Strawberry Bush

Indicator of wet soils

HIGHEST preference

Not in upland systems

Christmas Fern

Hardwood systems

Most dont care for it

Roughed Grouse do like it

Black Cherry

Soft mast

Highly preferred in summer

Greenbriar

Most common greenbriar

Sercia Lespedeza

Invasive exotic

preinnial

Grows seeds botton to top

toxic, cow hates it

Switchgrass

Panicgrass

45 Degree angles

Small seed taken by small mammals and song birds