ServiceberryAmelanchier spp

Serviceberry is a woodland genus of shrubs and small trees, many with suckering growths creating small colonies. Their star-shaped, flat to saucer shaped flowers are usually white with some pink blushing. Leaves turn a nice yellow-orange in fall and are accompanied by fruit that ripens in summer and is edible in some species.

Blue BeechCarpinus caroliniana

Blue Beech may also be known as musclewood for its muscle-like ridges on the smooth-gray trunks, and if often confused as a small beech tree. Leaves are bluish-green, with fine teeth, and becoming successively larger along the shoots.

Alternate Leaved Dogwood Cornus alternifolia

The growth form is very distinctive because the nearly horizontal branches, although alternate, tend to develop in groups of 3-5 very close together, followed by a relatively long section of trunk with no branches, and followed by another aggregation of branches.

Silky Dogwood Cornus amomum

The Silky Dogwood is a broad-leaf shrub that can be found in shrub wetlands, moist woods, streams and pond banks. It produces a yellowish white flower from May to July. The Silky Dogwood has a fast growth rate, typically 2 feet a year and it transplants well.

Black ChokeberryAronia melanocarpa

Native to eastern North America commonly found in wet woods and swamps. Chokeberries are cultivated as ornamental plants and as food products. They pack a large amount of vitamins and minerals obtained through the skin of the berry.

Buttonbush Cephalanthus Occidentalis

Buttonbush is an elegant ornamental suited to wet soils and is also a honey plant. It is valued for controlling erosion of shorelines, it contains poisonous foliage Cephalathin, which is unpalatable to livestock. Often used for medicines.

Gray DogwoodCornus racemosa

The Gray Dogwood is used for naturalizing wild areas and the berries are excellent food for song birds. It also tolerates a wide variety of conditions, making it suitable in just about any open sunny place, or even light shade.

Round Leaf DogwoodCornus rugosa

A medium sized shrub, growing to 1 - 3 metres tall. Twigs yellowish- to reddish-green, streaked with purple, rough-textured; pith relatively large, white; buds greenish; leaf scars broadly-U-shaped, with 3 bundle trace scars.

Red Osier DogwoodCornus sericea

Distinctive for its red/purple shiny branches in spring, fall and winter, this shrub is not only a beautiful ornamental; it is a vital environmental species. Leaves are green until fall, turn to a beautiful red colour.

American HazelnutCorylus Americana

American hazelnut is easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Prompt removal of root suckers will help maintain plant appearance, and, if desired, help prevent thicket formation.

Witch Hazel Hamemelis virginiana

A native small tree or large shrub with fantastic fall attributes. Yellow, fragrant flowers bloom from October through December.

BayberryMyrica Pensylvanica

Bayberry is mostly used for shrub boarder, a foundation plant, for difficult growing sites, seashore landscapes, along roadsides and mass plantings.Bayberry, also known as wax myrtle, waxberry, or candleberry, is both a shrub and a tree.

SumacRhus typhina

Sumac is any one of approximately 35 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The leaves are spirally; they usually pinnately compound, though some species have trifoliate or simple leaves.

Bebb’s WillowSalix bebbiana

The twigs on a willow are soft, slender, and they bend easily. A willow has thin branches. The leaves are narrow and grow alternately on the branch. Some leaves have serrated edges.

SnowberrySymphoricarpos albus

Snowberry is a delicate looking plant with a quietly enchanting quality. The small clusters of pink flowers in the spring become the egg-white berries of late summer which last on the plant until nearly spring.

NinebarkPhysocarpus opulifolius

Ninebark is very adaptable to undemanding only asking for as much as possible and average soil a little in the acid range. Its drought tolerant after establishment and very long lived. It can be transplanted at any time but the ideal time is when it’s dormant.

Smooth RoseRosa blanda

The smooth or early wild rose, is found in similar habitats. Its upper branches are usually smooth or bear just a few scattered prickles, but the bases of older stems may be armed with several straight prickles.

ElderberrySambucus canadenis

The bark of an elderberry is light grey when young, changes to a coarse grey outer bark with lengthwise furrowing. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, 10–30 cm long, pinnate with five to seven (rarely nine) leaflets, the leaflets 5–12 cm long and 3–5 cm broad, with a serrated margin.