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Plant List for Little Fresh Pond Restoration
                               November 2005

 Canopy Trees

Scientific Name                           Common Name
Acer rubrum                                 Red Maple
Chaemaecyparis thyodies         Atlantic White Cedar
Fraxinus pennsylvanica              Green Ash
Nyssa sylvatica                            Black Gum
Pinus strobus                               White Pine
Plantanus occidentalis               American Plane Tree
Quercus bicolor                           Swamp White Oak
Tilia americana                           American Linden
Ulmus americana                       American Elm


Understory Trees

Amelanchier Canadensis         Serviceberry
Betula nigra                                 River birch
Cornus alternifolia                      Alternate Leaf Dogwood
Crataegus punctata                    Ohio Pioneer Dotted Hawthorn
Hamamelis virginia                    Witch Hazel


Shrubs

Aronia arbutifolia                        Red Chokeberry
Aronia meloanocarpa                Black Chokeberry
Cephalanthus occidentalis       Buttonbush
Clethera alnifolia                        Sweet Pepperbush
Cornus amomum                       Silky Dogwood
Cornus stolonifera                      Red-osier Dogwood
Comptonia peregrine                 Sweet Fern
Ilex glabra                                     Inkberry
Ilex verticilata                               Winterberry
Itea virginica                                 Sweetspire
Sambucus canadensis               Elderberry
Spirea latifolia                               Meadow Sweet
Vaccinium augustifolium            Low-bush blueberry
Vaccinium corymbosum            High-bush blueberry
Viburnum acerifolium                 Maple leaf Viburnum
Viburnum dentatum                    Arrowwood

Upland Herbaceous Planting


Aquilegia canadensis                 Columbine
Asarum candense                       Wild Ginger
Coreopsis roseum                       Rose Coreopsis
Dennstaedtia punctilobula         Hay scented fern
Geranium maculatum                 Cranesbill Geranium
Heuchera americana                  Alum Root
Matteuccia struthiopteris            Ostrich Fern
Osmunda regalis                         Royal Fern
Onaclea sensibilis                       Sensitive Fern
Phlox divaricata                            Blue Woodland Phlox
Polygonatum biflorum                 Solomon's Seal
Rudbeckia triloba                         Goldstrum Brown-eyed Susan
Saxifraga virginiensis                  Early Saxifrage


Wet Meadow Herbaceous Planting

Carex stipata                                 Common Fox Sedge
Carex vulpinodea                          Foxtail Sedge
Elymus hystrix                               Bottlebrush Grass
Elymus riparius                              Riverbank Wild Rye
Elymus virginicus                          Virginia Wild Rye
Hibiscus moscheutos                    Marsh Hibiscus
Juncus canadensis                       Canada Rush
Leersia oryzoides                          Rice Cut Grass


Emergent Marsh Herbaceous Planting

Acoris americanus                       Sweet Flag
Carex crinita                                  Fringed Sedge
Carex stricta                                  Tussock Sedge
Iris versicolor                                 Blue Iris
Juncus effuses                              Soft Rush
Pontedaria cordata                       Pickerel Weed
Peltandra virginica                       Arrow arum
Scirpus cyperinus                         Wool Grass


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