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2012
Woody Plants Native to Nebraska
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Compiled by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
Trees (Genus/Species - Common Name)
Acer saccharinum - silver Betula occidentalis - water maple birch
Acer glabrum - Rocky Mountain maple
Aesculus glabra - Ohio
buckeye Betula papyrifera - paper birch
Acer negundo - boxelder maple
Asimina triloba - pawpaw
Fraxinus pennsylvanica - green ash
Cercis canadensis - eastern redbud
Carya cordiformis - bitternut hickory
Crataegus mollis - downy hawthorn
Gleditsia triacanthos - honeylocust
Carya ovata - shagbark hickory Crataegus succulenta - succulent hawthorn
Fraxinus americana - white ash Gymnocladus dioicus - Kentucky coffeetree Celtis occidentalis - hackberry
Juglans nigra - black walnut Platanus occidentalis - Morus rubra - red mulberry sycamore
Juniperus scopulorum - Rocky Mountain juniper
Ostrya virginiana - hophornbeam (ironwood) Populus acuminata - Juniperus virginiana - lanceleaf cottonwood eastern redcedar
Pinus flexilis - limber pine
Malus ioensis - wild crabapple
Populus angustifolia - narrowleaf cottonwood Pinus ponderosa - ponderosa pine
Prunus serotina - black cherry
Populus deltoides - eastern cottonwood Quercus marilandica - blackjack oak
Quercus muehlenbergii - Quercus alba - white oak chinkapin oak
Populus tremuloides - quaking aspen
Quercus macrocarpa - bur oak Quercus rubra - red oak
Prunus mexicana - big-tree (Mexican) plum Salix nigra - black willow
Tilia americana - American linden (basswood)
Ulmus thomasi - rock elm
Quercus velutina - black oak Small Trees/Large Shrubs (occur in both forms)
Ulmus americana - American elm Amelanchier arborea - shadblow serviceberry (juneberry)
Robinia pseudoacacia - black locust
Ulmus rubra - slippery elm
Salix amygdaloides - peachleaf willow Prunus americana - American (wild) plum
Prunus hortulana - wild goose plum Salix lutea - yellow (diamond) willow
Amorpha canescens - lead plant
Prunus virginiana - chokecherry Shepherdia argentea - silver buffaloberry
Shrubs
Amelanchier alnifolia - Saskatoon serviceberry Amorpha fruticosa - false Quercus prinoides - dwarf (juneberry) chinkapin oak indigo (indigo-bush)
Amelanchier humilis - low Amorpha nana - dwarf Salix eriocephala - Missouri serviceberry indigo River (diamond) willow
Artemisia tridentata - big Ceanothus herbaceous - sagebrush inland ceanothus Artemisia cana - silver sagebrush
Atriplex canescens - four- Cephalanthus occidentalis - wing saltbrush buttonbush
Artemisia filifolia - sand Atriplex nuttallii - sagebrush moundscale
Cercocarpus montanus - mountain mahogany
Ceanothus americanus - Chrysothamnus nauseosus - Artemisia frigida - fringed New Jersey tea rabbitbrush sagebrush
Chrysothamnus parryi - parry rabbitbrush Euonymus atropurpureus - eastern wahoo Cornus racemosa - gray dogwood
Cornus amomum - silky (pale) dogwood Juniperus communis - common juniper
Cornus sericea - red-stem (redosier) dogwood
Cornus drummondii - roughleaf dogwood Juniperus horizontalis - creeping juniper
Corylus americana - American hazelnut
Rhamnus lanceolata - lanceleaf buckthorn Rhus trilobata - skunkbush sumac
Mahonia repens - creeping mahonia
Rhus aromatica - fragrant sumac
Ribes americanum - wild
black currant Physocarpus opulifolius - ninebark
Ribes cereum - western red (wax) currant Rhus copallina - flameleaf (shining) sumac
Prunus besseyi - western Ribes missouriense - sandcherry Missouri gooseberry Rhus glabra - smooth sumac
Rubus allegheniensis - Ribes odoratum - buffalo Rosa arkansana - Arkansas common blackberry (clove) currant (prairie) rose
Rosa blanda - meadow Rubus flagellaris - northern Ribes oxyacanthoides - (smooth wild) rose dewberry bristly gooseberry
Rosa setigera - prairie (climbing) rose Rubus idaeus - red Ribes setosum - redshoot raspberry gooseberry
Rosa woodsii - woods
(western wild) rose Rubus occidentalis - black Rosa acicularis - prickly raspberry rose
Salix humilis - prairie willow Sarcobatus vermiculatus - black greasewood
Rubus pubescens - dwarf blackberry Salix interior - sandbar willow
Symphoricarpos albus -
Salix bebbiana - beaked common snowberry willow Salix petiolaris - meadow willow
Salix exigua - coyote willow
Sambucus canadensis - Symphoricarpos occidentalis elderberry - western snowberry Vines
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus - coralberry (buckbush) Parthenocissus vitacea - woodbine Ampelopsis cordata - raccoon grape
Smilax hispida - bristly greenbriar Celastrus scandens - American bittersweet
Viburnum lentago - nannyberry viburnum
Toxicodendron radicans - poison ivy Lonicera dioica - limber honeysuckle
Toxicodendron rydbergii - poison ivy
Zanthoxylum americanum - Parthenocissus quinquefolia common prickly-ash - Virginia creeper
Vitis aestivalis - pigeon grape
Vitis cinerea - winter grape
Vitis riparia - riverbank grape
Vitis vulpina - frost grape