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Tree Species Suitable for Special Conditions

Trees for Very Moist and Wet Sites

  • European Alder
  • Green Ash
  • Baldcypress
  • River Birch
  • Ohio Buckeye
  • Northern Catalpa
  • Sweetbay Magnolia
  • Red Maple
  • Pin Oak
  • Swamp Chestnut Oak
  • Swamp White Oak
  • Water Oak
  • Willow Oak
  • White Spruce
  • Sugarberry
  • American Sycamore

Trees Tolerant of Dry Conditions

  • Green Ash
  • Northern Catalpa
  • Flowering Crabapple
  • Goldenrain Tree
  • Common Hackberry
  • Hawthorn
  • Shagbark Hickory
  • Thornless Honeylocust
  • Black Oak
  • Chinkapin Oak
  • Pin Oak
  • Post Oak
  • Scarlet Oak
  • Shingle Oak
  • Southern Red Oak
  • Swamp White Oak
  • Willow Oak
  • Japanese Black Pine
  • Limber Pine
  • Eastern Redcedar
  • Hardy Rubbertree
  • American Sycamore

 Trees Tolerant of Light Shade

  • European Alder
  • American Basswood
  • American Beech
  • European Beech
  • Blackgum
  • Ohio Buckeye
  • Red Buckeye
  • Flowering Dogwood
  • White Fir
  • Canadian Hemlock
  • American Holly
  • Hophornbeam
  • European Hornbeam
  • Saucer Magnolia
  • Southern Magnolia
  • Sweetbay Magnolia
  • Sugar Maple
  • Pawpaw
  • Eastern Redbud
  • Serviceberry
  • Silverbell
  • Sourwood
  • Norway Spruce
  • White Spruce
  • Yellowwood

 Trees Most Tolerant of Urban Conditions

  • Green Ash
  • White Ash
  • Baldcypress
  • River Birch
  • Blackgum
  • Northern Catalpa
  • Kentucky Coffeetree
  • Amur Corktree
  • Chinese Elm
  • Ginkgo
  • Goldenrain Tree
  • Common Hackberry
  • Thornless Honeylocust
  • Hophornbeam
  • Chinese Juniper
  • Katsura
  • Littleleaf Linden
  • Norway Maple
  • Northern Red Oak
  • Pin Oak
  • Sawtooth Oak
  • Shumard Oak
  • Swamp White Oak
  • Willow Oak
  • Japanese Pagodatree
  • Callery Pear
  • Japanese Black Pine
  • Limber Pine
  • London Planetree
  • Eastern Redbud
  • Eastern Redcedar
  • Hardy Rubbertree
  • Japanese Zelkova

 Trees Suitable for Street Planting

  • Green Ash
  • White Ash
  • Baldcypress
  • American Beech
  • European Beech
  • River Birch
  • Blackgum
  • Amur Corktree
  • Chinese Elm
  • Ginkgo
  • Goldenrain Tree
  • Common Hackberry
  • Thornless Honeylocust
  • Hophornbeam
  • European Hornbeam
  • Katsura
  • Littleleaf Linden
  • Norway Maple
  • Red Maple
  • Bur Oak
  • English Oak
  • Northern Red Oak
  • Sawtooth Oak
  • Scarlet Oak
  • Shumard Oak
  • Swamp White Oak
  • Willow Oak
  • Japanese Pagodatree
  • London Planetree
  • Eastern Redbud
  • Sugarberry
  • Japanese Zelkova

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