Plants of Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge Shrubs and Trees Canopy Trees Canopy Trees Common Name Latin Name Common Name Latin Name Plants Red Maple, also Acer rubrum Black cherry, wild Prunus serotina known as Swamp, black cherry, rum of Water or Soft Maple cherry, or mountain black cherry Black Titi (Tie-tie) Cliftonia monophylla Mississippi Sandhill Buckwheat tree Swamp laurel oak, Quercus laurifolia Diamond-leaf oak, American Persimmon, Diospyros virgiana Water oak, Obtusa Crane Common Persimmon, oak, Laurel oak Eastern Persimmon, "'Simmon", Water oak Quercus nigra National Wildlife "Possumwood", or Southern live oak Quercus virginiana "Sugar-plum" Black willow Salix nigra Refuge American Holly Ilex Opaca Pond cypress Taxodium ascendens American sweetgum, Liquidambar styraciflua sweet-gum, alligator- wood, American- storax, bilsted, red- Shrubs and Trees gum, satin-walnut, or star-leaved gum Yellow poplar, Tulip Liriodendron tulipifera tree, American tulip tree, Tuliptree, Tulip poplar, whitewood, fiddle-tree Sweetbay magnolia or Magnolia virginiana sweetbay Swamp tupelo or Nyssa biflora blackgum Swampbay Persea palustris Slash pine Pinus Elliotti Longleaf pine Pinus palustris Plants of Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge Shrubs and Trees Shrubs and Small Trees Shrubs and Small Trees Shrubs and Small Trees Common Name Latin Name Common Name Latin Name Common Name Latin Name Chokeberries Aronia arbutifolia Lam. peelbark St. Hypericum fasciculatum Shining Rhus copallina Johnswort Sumac or Winged Eastern Baccharis, Baccharis halimifolia Sumac Groundsel Bush, Sea St Andrews Cross (St Hypericum hypericoides Myrtle, and Saltbush Johns Wort) Cherokee rose Rosa laevigata (invasive) Also, menglier in LA Myrtle leaf St John’s Hypericum myrtifolium American beautyberry Callicarpa americana wort Sawtooth Rubus argutus Blackberry or Florida Fourpetal St Johns Hypericum tetrapetalum Buttonbush, Common Cephalanthus occidentalis Blackberry Buttonbush, Button- wort Saw palmetto Serenoa repens willow and Honey-bells Dahoon holly Ilex cassine American snowbell Styrax americanus Flowering Dogwood Cornus florida Yaupon holly Ilex vomitoria Poison sumac Toxicodendron vernix Swamp cyrilla, swamp Cyrilla racemiflora Gallberry Ilex glabra titi, red titi, black titi, (Rhus vernix) Myrtle dahoon Ilex myrtifolia white titi, leatherwood, Sparkleberry or Farkle Vaccinium arboreum ironwood, he Gopher apple Licania michauxi berry huckleberry, and myrtle Fetterbush Lyonia lucida Northern highbush Vaccinium corymbosum lyonia, hurrahbush, blueberry, blue Dwarf huckleberry, Gaylussacia dumosa and staggerbush huckleberry, tall bush huckleberry, and huckleberry, swamp gopherberry (Southern) Wax Myrica cerifera huckleberry, high myrtle, (Southern) Dangleberry, hairy Gaylussacia frondosa blueberry Bayberry,Candleberry, dangleberry, and blue Bayberry tree, Darrow's Vaccinium darrowii huckleberry and Tallow shrub Blueberry, Evergreen Small woolly Gaylussacia mosieri Blueberry, Scrub Small southern Myrica heterophylla huckleberry Blueberry, or Southern bayberry Synonym: Highbush Blueberry Coastal plain St John’s Hypericum brachphyllum Morella caroliniensis wort Shiny blueberry Vaccinium myrsinites American olive, wild Osmanthus americanus Roundpod St John’s Hypericum cistifolium olive, or devilwood Naked Viburnum nudum Wort viburnum, smooth Blackjack oak Quercus marilandica witherod, Crantz St. Peterswort Hypericum crux-andreae or possumhaw .