Woody Plants

For questions about local plants, call: Natural Resources Coordinator 980-314-1119 www.parkandrec.com WOODY PLANT CHECKLIST Mecklenburg County, NC: 301 species

Moschatel Family ☐ Chinese Holly, Burford Holly* ☐ Beaked Hazelnut ☐ Common Elderberry (Ilex cornuta) (Corylus cornuta var. cornuta) (Sambucus canadensis) ☐ Japanese Holly* (Ilex crenata) ☐ American Hop-hornbeam, Ironwood ☐ Maple-leaf Viburnum, Dockmackie ☐ Possum-haw (Ilex decidua var. decidua) (Ostrya virginiana) (Viburnum acerifolium) ☐ Georgia Holly, Chapman’s Holly Bignonia Family ☐ Arrow-wood (Viburnum dentatum) (Ilex longipes) ☐ Cross-vine (Bignonia capreolata) ☐ Southern Wild Raisin, Possumhaw ☐ Mountain Holly (Ilex montana) ☐ Trumpet-creeper (Campsis radicans) (Viburnum nudum) ☐ American Holly, Christmas Holly ☐ Northern Catalpa~ (Catalpa speciosa) ☐ Black Haw (Viburnum prunifolium) (Ilex opaca var. opaca) ☐ Southern Black Haw ☐ Winterberry (Ilex verticillata) Boxwood Family (Viburnum rufidulum) ☐ Yaupon~ (Ilex vomitoria) ☐ Boxwood* (Buxus sempervirens) Agave Family Ginseng Family ☐ Pachysandra, Japanese-spurge* (Pachysandra terminalis) ☐ Rattlesnake-master, Eastern False-aloe ☐ Devil’s-walking-stick, Hercules’s-club (Manfreda virginica) (Aralia spinosa) Cactus Family ☐ Curlyleaf Yucca, Spoonleaf Yucca ☐ Common Ivy, English Ivy* ☐ Prickly-pear (Yucca filamentosa) (Hedera helix var. helix) (Opuntia humifusa var. humifusa) ☐ Weakleaf Yucca (Yucca flaccida) ☐ Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) Sweet-shrub Family ☐ Mound-lily Yucca~ (Yucca gloriosa) Aster Family ☐ Sweet-shrub, Carolina Allspice Sweet Gum Family ☐ Common Wormwood, Absinthe* (Calycanthus floridus) ☐ Sweet Gum (Liquidambar styraciflua) (Artemisia absinthium) Hops Family ☐ Mugwort, Felon Herb* Amaranth Family ☐ Southern Hackberry, Sugarberry (Artemisia vulgaris) ☐ Florida cottonseed, Common (Celtis laevigata) ☐ Groundsel-tree (Baccharis halimifolia) Cottonweed~ (Froelichia floridana) ☐ Northern Hackberry ☐ Eastern False-boneset (Celtis occidentalis) Cashew Family (Brickellia eupatorioides var. eupatorioides) ☐ Dwarf Hackberry, Georgia Hackberry ☐ American Smoketree~ (Cotinus obovata) ☐ Holy-flax, Lavender-cotton* (Celtis tenuifolia) ☐ Fragrant Sumac (Santolina chamaecyparissus) Honeysuckle Family (Rhus aromatica var. aromatica) Barberry Family ☐ Winged Sumac (Rhus copallinum) ☐ Sweet-breath-of-spring* ☐ Chinese Mahonia, Holly-grape* ☐ Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra) (Lonicera fragrantissima) (Berberis bealei) ☐ Poison Oak (Toxicodendron pubescens) ☐ Japanese Honeysuckle* ☐ Evergreen Barberry* (Berberis julianiae) ☐ Poison Ivy (Lonicera japonica) ☐ Japanese Barberry* (Berberis thunbergii) (Toxicodendron radicans var. radicans) ☐ Amur Honeysuckle* (Lonicera maackii) ☐ Nandina, Sacred-bamboo* ☐ Coral Honeysuckle Custard-apple Family (Nandina domestica) (Lonicera sempervirens) ☐ Dwarf Pawpaw (Asimina parviflora) Birch Family ☐ Pretty Honeysuckle* (Lonicera x bella) ☐ Common Pawpaw (Asimina triloba) ☐ Tag Alder, Smooth Alder ☐ Coralberry (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus) Dogbane Family (Alnus serrulata) Bittersweet Family ☐ Climbing Dogbane ☐ River Birch (Betula nigra) ☐ Strawberry Bush, Heart’s-a-bustin’ (Thrysanthella difformis) ☐ American Hornbeam (Euonymus americanus) ☐ Confederate Jasmine, Star Jasmine* (Carpinus caroliniana) (Trachelospermum jasminoides) ☐ American Hazelnut, American Filbert Rockrose Family Holly Family (Corylus americana) ☐ Canada Frostweed, Canada Sunrose (Crocanthemum canadense) ☐ Carolina Holly (Ilex ambigua)

Bold species: natives useful for attracting birds or butterflies *Exotic, naturalized, escaped from cultivation ~Native to elsewhere in U.S. Dogwood Family ☐ Indigo-bush Jessamine Family ☐ Silky Dogwood (Cornus amomum) (Amorpha herbacea var. herbacea) ☐ Carolina Jessamine ☐ Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida) ☐ Eastern Redbud (Gelsemium sempervirens) ☐ Southern Swamp Dogwood (Cercis canadensis var. canadensis) Witch Hazel Family (Cornus stricta) ☐ Yellow-wood~ (Cladrastis kentukea) ☐ Witch-hazel ☐ Scotch Broom, Besom* Cypress Family (Hamamelis virginiana var. virginiana) (Cytisus scoparius) ☐ Eastern Red Cedar ☐ Beggar’s Lice (Desmodium nuttallii) Hydrangea Family (Juniperus virginiana var. virginiana) ☐ Velvetleaf Tick-trefoil ☐ Climbing Hydrangea, Woodvamp ☐ Bald-cypress~ (Taxodium distichum) (Desmodium viridiflorum) (Decumaria barbara) Diapensia Family ☐ Honey Locust~ (Gleditsia triacanthos) ☐ Pride-of-Rochester* (Deutzia scabra) ☐ Galax (Galax urceolata) ☐ Kentucky Coffee Tree~ ☐ Smooth Hydrangea Teasel Family (Gymnocladus dioicus) (Hydrangea arborescens) ☐ Bicolor Lespedeza* (Lespedeza bicolor) ☐ Oakleaf Hydrangea~ ☐ Wild Teasel, Common Teasel* ☐ Sericea Lespedeza, Chinese Lespedeza* (Hydrangea quercifolia) (Dipsacus fullonum) (Lespedeza cuneata) ☐ European Mock-orange* Ebony Family ☐ Bush-clover* (Lespedeza thunbergii) (Philadelphus coronarius) ☐ American Persimmon ☐ Common Bristly Locust~ ☐ Appalachian Mock-orange (Diospyros virginiana) (Robinia hispida var. hispida) (Philadelphus inodorus) Oleaster Family ☐ Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) St. John’s-wort Family ☐ Clammy Locust (Robinia viscosa) ☐ Autumn Silverberry, Thorny-olive* ☐ St. Andrew’s Cross, St. Peter’s-wort ☐ American Wisteria, Swamp Wisteria (Elaeagnus pungens) (Hypericum crux-andreae) (Wisteria frutescens) ☐ Autumn-olive, Spring Silverberry* ☐ St. Andrew’s Cross ☐ Chinese Wisteria* (Wisteria sinensis) (Elaeagnus umbellata var. parvifolia) (Hypericum hypericoides) Beech Family Heath Family ☐ St. John’s-wort (Hypericum nudiflorum) ☐ American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) ☐ Low St. John’s-wort ☐ Agarista, Pipe-plant~ ☐ Chinese Chestnut* (Hypericum stragulum) (Agarista populifolia) (Castanea mollissima) ☐ Pipsissewa, Striped Wintergreen Star-anise Family ☐ Common Chinquapin (Chimaphila maculata) ☐ Florida Star-anise~ (Illicium floridanum) (Castanea pumila) ☐ Trailing Arbutus (Epigaea repens) ☐ American Beech (Fagus grandifolia) Sweetspire Family ☐ Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) ☐ White Oak (Quercus alba) ☐ Virginia-willow, Sweetspire ☐ Mountain Doghobble, Switch-ivy ☐ Swamp White Oak (Quercus bicolor) (Itea virginica) (Leucothoe fontanesiana) ☐ Scarlet Oak (Quercus coccinea) ☐ Southern Maleberry, He-huckleberry Walnut Family ☐ Spanish Oak, Southern Red Oak (Lyonia ligustrina var. ligustrina) ☐ Carolina Shagbark Hickory (Quercus falcata) ☐ Sourwood, Sorrel-tree (Carya carolinae-septentrionalis) ☐ Shingle Oak (Quercus imbricaria) (Oxydendrum arboreum) ☐ Bitternut Hickory (Carya cordiformis) ☐ Overcup Oak (Quercus lyrata) ☐ Great Laurel, White Rosebay ☐ Pignut Hickory (Carya glabra) ☐ Blackjack Oak (Rhododendron maximum) ☐ Pecan~ (Carya illinoinensis) (Quercus marilandica var. ☐ Wild Azalea, Pinxterflower ☐ Red Hickory (Carya ovalis) marilandica) (Rhododendron periclymenoides) ☐ Common Shagbark Hickory ☐ Basket Oak, Swamp Chestnut Oak ☐ Farkleberry, Sparkleberry (Carya ovata) (Quercus michauxii) (Vaccinium arboreum) ☐ Sand Hickory, Pale Hickory ☐ Rock Chestnut Oak ☐ Hairy Highbush Blueberry (Carya pallida) (Quercus montana) (Vaccinium fuscatum) ☐ Mockernut Hickory (Carya tomentosa) ☐ Yellow Oak, Chinquapin Oak ☐ Hillside Blueberry, Dryland Blueberry ☐ Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) (Quercus muehlenbergii) (Vaccinium pallidum) ☐ Water Oak (Quercus nigra) Mint Family ☐ Deerberry (Vaccinium stamineum) ☐ Cherrybark Oak, Swamp Spanish Oak ☐ Beautyberry, French Mulberry ☐ Southern Blueberry (Quercus pagoda) (Callicarpa americana) (Vaccinium tenellum) ☐ Pin Oak (Quercus palustris) ☐ Lesser Calamint, Basil-thyme* Spurge Family ☐ Willow Oak (Quercus phellos) (Clinopodium calamintha) ☐ Doveweed, Tooth-leaved Croton* ☐ Red Oak (Quercus rubra var. rubra) ☐ Stone-mint, American-dittany (Croton glandulosus var. septentrionalis) ☐ Shumard Oak (Quercus shumardii) (Cunila origanoides) ☐ Chinese Tallow-tree* (Triadica sebifera) ☐ Post Oak (Quercus stellata) ☐ Chaste Tree* (Vitex agnus-castus) Legume Family ☐ Black Oak (Quercus velutina) Lardizabala Family ☐ Mimosa, Silktree* (Albizia julibrissin) Garrya Family ☐ Five-leaf Akebia, Chocolate-vine* ☐ Tall Indigo-bush (Amorpha fruticosa) ☐ Aucuba, Japanese-laurel* (Akebia quinata) (Aucuba japonica) Laurel Family ☐ Green Ash, Red Ash ☐ Pearlbush* (Exochorda racemosa) ☐ Northern Spicebush (Lindera benzoin) (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) ☐ Wild Crabapple (Malus angustifolia) ☐ Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) ☐ Japanese Privet* (Ligustrum japonicum) ☐ Japanese Flowering Crabapple* Clubmoss Family ☐ Glossy Privet* (Ligustrum lucidum) (Malus floribunda) ☐ California Privet* ☐ Common Apple* (Malus pumila) ☐ Princess Pine, Ground Pine (Ligustrum ovalifolium) ☐ Taiwanese Redtip* (Photinia serratifolia) (Dendrolycopodium obscurum) ☐ Wax-leaved Privet* (Ligustrum quihoui) ☐ Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius) ☐ Common Running-cedar, Fan Ground- ☐ Chinese Privet* (Ligustrum sinense) ☐ Wild Plum (Prunus americana) pine (Diphasiastrum digitatum) ☐ Lilac* (Syringa vulgaris) ☐ Chickasaw Plum (Prunus angustifolia) ☐ Shining Firmoss, Shining Clubmoss ☐ Black Cherry (Huperzia lucidula) Paulownia Family (Prunus serotina var. serotina) ☐ Princess Tree, Empress Tree* Loosestrife Family ☐ Hog Plum, Flatwoods Plum (Paulownia tomentosa) ☐ Toothcup (Ammannia coccinea) (Prunus umbellata) ☐ Purple Loosestrife* (Lythrum salicaria) Pine Family ☐ Chinese Firethorn* Magnolia Family ☐ Shortleaf Pine, Yellow Pine (Pyracantha fortuneana) (Pinus echinata) ☐ Formosan Firethorn* ☐ Tulip-tree, Yellow Poplar ☐ Eastern White Pine~ (Pinus strobus) (Pyracantha koidzumi) (Liriodendron tulipifera var. tulipifera) ☐ Loblolly Pine, Old Field Pine~ ☐ Bradford Pear, Callery Pear* ☐ Southern Magnolia, Bull Bay~ (Pinus taeda) (Pyrus calleryana) (Magnolia grandiflora) ☐ Virginia Pine, Scrub Pine ☐ Common Pear* (Pyrus communis) ☐ Umbrella Magnolia, Umbrella-tree (Pinus virginiana) ☐ McCartney Rose, Chickasaw Rose* (Magnolia tripetala) ☐ Eastern Hemlock, Canada Hemlock~ (Rosa bracteata) Mallow Family (Tsuga canadensis) ☐ Carolina Rose (Rosa carolina) ☐ Chinese Parasol-tree, Phoenix Tree* Plane-tree Family ☐ French Rose* (Rosa gallica) (Firmiana simplex) ☐ Memorial Rose, Dorothy Perkin’s Rose* ☐ Sycamore, Plane-tree ☐ Eastern Rose-mallow (Rosa luciae) (Platanus occidentalis) (Hibiscus moscheutos) ☐ Multiflora Rose* Rosa( multiflora) ☐ Rose-of-Sharon, Althaea* Grass Family ☐ Swamp Rose (Rosa palustris) (Hibiscus syriacus) ☐ Giant Cane (Arundinaria gigantea) ☐ Eglantine Rose* (Rosa rubiginosa) ☐ Bristly-mallow~ (Modiola caroliniana) ☐ Giant Reed* (Arundo donax) ☐ Allegheny Blackberry ☐ Arrowleaf Sida* ☐ Golden Bamboo, Fishpole Bamboo* (Rubus allegheniensis) (Sida rhombifolia var. rhombifolia) (Phyllostachys aurea) ☐ Himalaya-berry* (Rubus bifrons) ☐ Prickly-sida, Prickly-mallow* Buttercup Family ☐ Sand Blackberry (Rubus cuneifolius) (Sida spinosa) ☐ Common Dewberry (Rubus flagellaris) ☐ Curlyheads (Clematis ochroleuca) ☐ Basswood (Tilia americana) ☐ Swamp Dewberry (Rubus hispidus) ☐ Northern Leatherflower, Vasevine ☐ Black Raspberry, Blackcap Mahogany Family (Clematis viorna) (Rubus occidentalis) ☐ Chinaberry* (Melia azedarach) ☐ Virgin’s-bower (Clematis virginiana) ☐ Pennsylvania Blackberry ☐ Yellowroot, Brook-feather Mulberry Family (Rubus pensilvanicus) (Xanthorhiza simplicissima) ☐ Paper Mulberry* ☐ Southern Dewberry (Rubus trivialis) (Broussonetia papyrifera) Buckthorn Family ☐ Japanese Spiraea* (Spiraea japonica) ☐ Osage-orange, Bow-wood~ ☐ New Jersey Tea ☐ Bridal-wreath Spiraea* (Maclura pomifera) (Ceanothus americanus) (Spiraea prunifolia) ☐ White Mulberry, Silkworm Mulberry* ☐ Carolina Buckthorn ☐ Hardhack, Steeplebush (Morus alba) (Frangula caroliniana) (Spiraea tomentosa) ☐ Red Mulberry (Morus rubra) Rose Family Madder Family Bayberry Family ☐ Downy Serviceberry ☐ Buttonbush ☐ Common Wax-myrtle, Southern (Amelanchier arborea) (Cephalanthus occidentalis) Bayberry~ (Morella cerifera) ☐ Dwarf Serviceberry Citrus Family (Amelanchier spicata) Tupelo Family ☐ Trifoliate Orange* (Citrus trifoliata) ☐ Red Chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia) ☐ Sour Gum, Black Gum (Nyssa sylvatica) ☐ Cockspur Hawthorn Willow Family Olive Family (Crataegus crus-galli var. crus-galli) ☐ Silver Poplar, White Poplar* ☐ Fringe-tree, Old Man’s Beard ☐ Washington Hawthorn (Populus alba) (Chionanthus virginicus) (Crataegus phaenopyrum) ☐ Eastern Cottonwood ☐ Greenstem Forsythia* ☐ Littlehip Hawthorn (Populus deltoides var. deltoides) (Forsythia viridissima) (Crataegus spathulata) ☐ Gray Poplar* (Populus x canescens) ☐ White Ash, American Ash ☐ Oneflower Hawthorn ☐ Weeping Willow* (Salix babylonica) (Fraxinus americana) (Crataegus uniflora) ☐ Carolina Willow, Coastal Plain Willow ☐ Painted Buckeye (Aesculus sylvatica) Sweetleaf Family (Salix caroliniana) ☐ Golden Rain Tree* ☐ Sweetleaf, Horsesugar ☐ Upland Willow, Prairie Willow (Koelreuteria paniculata) (Symplocos tinctoria) (Salix humilis) Quassia Family Mezereum Family ☐ Black Willow (Salix nigra) ☐ Tree-of-heaven* (Ailanthus altissima) ☐ Leatherwood, Leatherbark ☐ Dwarf Upland Willow, Sage Willow (Dirca palustris) (Salix occidentalis) Greenbrier Family ☐ Silky Willow (Salix sericea) ☐ Biltmore Carrionflower Elm Family Sandalwood Family (Smilax biltmoreana) ☐ Winged Elm (Ulmus alata) ☐ Catbriar, Tramp’s-trouble ☐ American Elm, White Elm ☐ Nestronia, Conjurer’s-nut (Smilax bona-nox) (Ulmus americana var. americana) (Nestronia umbellula) ☐ Whiteleaf Greenbriar, Wild ☐ Slippery Elm, Red Elm (Ulmus rubra) ☐ Mistletoe (Phoradendron leucarpum) Sarsaparilla (Smilax glauca) ☐ Buffalo-nut, Oil-nut Pyrularia( pubera) Grape Family ☐ Common Carrionflower ☐ Peppervine (Ampelopsis arborea) Soapberry Family (Smilax herbacea) ☐ Porcelain-berry* ☐ Southern Sugar Maple (Acer floridanum) ☐ Bristly Greenbriar, Hellfetter (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata) ☐ Chalk Maple (Acer leucoderme) (Smilax hispida) ☐ Bushkiller* (Cayratia japonica) ☐ Box Elder (Acer negundo var. negundo) ☐ Carrionflower Smilax( pulverulenta) ☐ Muscadine ☐ Norway Maple* (Acer platanoides) ☐ Common Greenbrier, Bullbrier (Muscadinia rotundifolia var. rotundifolia) ☐ Red Maple (Acer rubrum) (Smilax rotundifolia) ☐ Virginia-creeper ☐ Silver Maple~ (Acer saccharinum) ☐ Jackson-brier (Smilax smallii) (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) ☐ Sugar Maple, Hard Maple Bladdernut Family ☐ Summer Grape (Acer saccharum) ☐ Bladdernut (Staphylea trifolia) (Vitis aestivalis var. aestivalis) ☐ Bottlebrush Buckeye~ ☐ Possum Grape (Vitis cinerea) (Aesculus parviflora) Storax Family ☐ Fox Grape (Vitis labrusca) ☐ Red Buckeye~ ☐ Little Silverbell (Halesia tetraptera) (Aesculus pavia var. pavia) ☐ Bigleaf Snowbell, Bigleaf Storax (Styrax grandifolius)