HOUSATONIC  RIVER WALK

PLANTS FOUND ALONG THE RIVER WALK
* non-native      **planted by volunteers

Trees  | Shrubs & Vines | Herbaceous Plants  | 'Native Natives' | Photographs


TREES
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     Box elder**

     Japanese maple*
     Striped maple**
     Norway maple*
     Red maple**
     Silver maple**
     Sugar maple**
     Horse chestnut*
     Speckled adler**
     Shadblow**
     Shadblow**
     Sweet birch**
     Catalpa
     Hackberry**   
     Katsura*
     American filbert**
  Washington hawthorne**
     Beech**
     Butternut
     Tulip poplar**
     Crabapple* **
     White pine**
     Sycamore**
     Cottonwood**
     Pin cherry
     Black cherry
     Swamp white oak**
     Bur oak** 
     Pin oak**
     Black willow**
     American linden
     Hemlock**
     American elm**
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    Acer negundo

    Acer palmatum
    Acer pensylvanicum
    Acer platanoides
    Acer rubrum     
    Acer saccharinum 
    Acer saccharum
    Aesculus hippocastanum  
    Alnus incana
    Amelanchier laevis
    Amelanchier canadense
    Betula lenta
    Catalpa bignonioides
    Celtis occidentalis
    Cercidiphyllum japonicum
    Corylus americana   
    Crataegus phaenopyrum
    Fagus grandfolia
    Juglans cinerea
    Liriodendrum tulipifera
    Malus 'Indian Summer'
    Pinus strobus
    Platanus occidentalis
    Populus deltoides
    Prunus pensylvanica
    Prunus serotina
    Quercus bicolor
    Quercus macrocarpa
    Quercus palustris
    Salix nigra
    Tilia americana
    Tsuga canadense
    Ulmus americana
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SHRUBS & VINES
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     Bearberry**
     Oriental bittersweet*
     American bittersweet
     Sweet pepperbush**
     Sweet  pepperbush**
     Sweet fern**
     Silky dogwood**
     Flowering dogwood**
     Gray dogwood**
  Red twigged dogwood**
     Forsythia*
     Witch-hazel**
     Winterberry**
     Mountain laurel**
     Spicebush**
     Honeysuckle*
     Moonseed vine
     Virginia creeper**
     Sumac**
     Multiflora rose*
     Rugosa rose* **
     Brambles**
     Elderberry**
     Pussy-willow**
     Native willow**
     Meadowsweet**
     Mapleleaf viburnum**
     Witherod viburnum**
     Nannyberry viburnum**
     Black-haw viburnum**
     Arrowwood viburnum**
     Cranberry viburnum**
     Grapevines
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     Arctostaphylos uva-ursi  
     Celastrus orbiculatus
     Celastrus scandens
     Clethra acuminata
     Clethra alnifolia
     Comptonia peregrina
     Cornus amomum
     Cornus Florida 'Cherokee Princess'
     Cornus racemosa
     Cornus sericea
     Forsythia
     Hamamelis virginiana
     Ilex verticillata
     Kalmia latifolia
     Lindera benzoin
     Lonicera sp.
     Menispermum canadense
     Parthenocissus quinquefolia
     Rhus typhina
     Rosa multiflora
     Rosa rugosa
     Rubus allegheniensis
     Sambucus canadense
     Salix discolor
     Salix sp.
     Spirea latifolia
     Viburnum acerifolium
     Viburnum cassinoides
     Viburnum lentago
     Viburnum prunifolium 
     Viburnum recognitum
     Viburnum trilobum
     Vitis sp.
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Native Herbaceous Plants

'Native Natives' 
(propagated from locally collected seed or cuttings) 

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