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Windsor/Essex County Recommended Native Tree List

Detailed list of native species for school and community naturalization projects. Includes information on average height and spread, sun, soil and moisture needs of the plant, wildlife value, and other uses of the species such as culinary and aboriginal use. PLEASE NOTE: Purchasing information for these trees is available throught the Essex Region Conservation Authority. Please contact Caroline Biribauer for more information at cbiribauer@erca.org.

Applicable Province(s):

ON

Applicable Ecozone(s):

Mixedwood Plains

Applicable Ecoregion(s):

Lake Erie Carolinian Region

Author:

Caroline Biribauer, Friends of Watershed Organizer

Author Bio:

Caroline is a graduate from York University with a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Post-Graduate Certificate in eco-system restoration from Niagara College. She is currently the Friends of Watershed Organizer with the Essex Conservation Authority, working with adult and student volunteers in hands-on restoration and other stewardship activities.

Plants

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Plant

Description

 

Acer rubrum
Common Name(s): red maple, scarlet maple, swamp maple, curled maple

 

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Acer saccharinum
Common Name(s): silver maple, soft, white, river maple

 

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Acer saccharum
Common Name(s): sugar maple, rock maple, hard maple, bird's eye maple, curly maple, sweet maple

 

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Celtis occidentalis
Common Name(s): hackberry, bastard-elm, nettle-tree, sugarberry, northern hackberry, western hackberry, Georgia hackberry

 

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Gleditsia triacanthos
Common Name(s): honey locust, thorny honey locust, sweet locust

 

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Gymnocladus dioicus
Common Name(s): Kentucky coffee tree

 

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Juniperus virginiana
Common Name(s): red cedar, eastern red cedar, aromatic cedar

 

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Liriodendron tulipifera
Common Name(s): tulip tree, tulip magnolia, yellow poplar, whitewood

 

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Picea glauca
Common Name(s): white spruce, cat spruce, Canadian spruce, Black Hills spruce

 

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Pinus strobus
Common Name(s): white pine, Eastern white pine, Northern white pine, soft pine

 

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Platanus occidentalis
Common Name(s): sycamore, American sycamore, buttonwood, buttonball-tree, American plane-tree

 

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Prunus serotina
Common Name(s): wild black cherry, rum cherry, black chokecherry, timber cherry, wine cherry, black cherry

 

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Prunus virginiana
Common Name(s): chokecherry, western chokecherry, Virginia chokecherry, common chokecherry, red chokecherry, cloetree, wild cherry

 

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Quercus bicolor
Common Name(s): swamp white oak

 

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Quercus macrocarpa
Common Name(s): bur oak, mossycup oak, blue oak, mossy oak

 

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Quercus palustris
Common Name(s): pin oak, swamp oak, Spanish oak, water oak

 

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Quercus rubra
Common Name(s): red oak, northern red oak, grey oak

 

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Thuja occidentalis
Common Name(s): white cedar, eastern white cedar, eastern arborvite, northern white cedar, swamp cedar, tree of life

 

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Tilia americana
Common Name(s): American basswood, American linden, whitewood, bee tree, bass tree, lime tree, spoonwood

 

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