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Planting Suggestions

For Landscaping in the White Clay Creek Watershed

List Of Plants

  1. INVASIVE PLANTS TO AVOID FOR PLANTING
  2. RECOMMENDED NATIVE PLANTS FOR LANDSCAPING IN THE WATERSHED

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AVOID PLANTING THESE INVASIVE PLANTS

COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME
Norway Maple Acer platanoides
Tree-Of-Heaven Ailanthus altissima
Princess Tree Paulownia tomentosa
Bradford Pear Pyrus calleryana
European Barberry Berberis vulgaris
Burning Bush Euonymus alatus
English Ivy Hedera helix
Privet Ligustrum vulgare
Periwinkle Vinca minor

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RECOMMENDED NATIVE PLANTS FOR LANDSCAPING IN THE WATERSHED

TREES
COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME
Red Maple Acer rubrum
Bitternut Hickory Carya cordiformis
Pignut Hickory Carya glabra
Shagbark Hickory Carya ovata
Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida
White Ash Fraxinus americana
Green Ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica
American Holly Ilex opaca
Eastern Red Cedar Juniperus virginiana
Sweetgum Liquidambar styraciflua
Sourgum/Blackgum Nyssa sylvatica
Sycamore Platanus occidentalis
Wild Black Cherry Prunus serotina
White Oak Quercus alba
Scarlet Oak Quercus coccinea
Pin Oak Quercus palustris
Willow Oak Quercus phellos
Chestnut Oak Quercus prinus
Red Oak Quercus rubra
Shadbush Amelanchier canadensis
Winterberry Ilex verticillata
Maple-leaved Viburnum Viburnum acerifolium

PERENNIALS
COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME
Butterfly Weed Asclepias tuberosa
New England Aster Aster novae-angliae
Wild Ginger Asarum canadense
Joe-Pye Weed Eupatorium fistulosum
Black-Eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta
New York Ironweed Vernonia noveboracensis

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