Octoraro Native Plant Nursery
Plant Reference Guide
Click on any of the varieties to see the list of plants.

Container grown plants including wet tolerant and upland species

Container grown plants including wet tolerant and upland species

Live stakes, live brush, rooted cuttings and fascines are available for stream enhancement and bioengineering projects

Spacing
Quantity / Acre
1' X 1' 43,560
2' X 2' 10,890
3' X 3' 4,840
5' X 5' 1,742
8' X 8' 680
Spacing Quantity / Acre
10' X 10' 436
12' X 12' 303
15' X 15' 194
20' X 20' 109

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Native Trees
To view detailed information, click the plant species name.

Acer negundo / box elder
Acer rubrum / red maple
Acer saccharinum / silver maple
Acer saccharum / sugar maple
Betula lenta / black or sweet birch
Betula nigra / river birch
Carpinus caroliniana / hornbeam
Celtis occidentalis / hackberry
Cercis canadensis / eastern redbud
Cornus florida / flowering dogwood
Fagus grandifolia / American beech
Fraxinus americana / white ash
Fraxinus pennsylvanica / green ash
Juniperus virginiana / eastern red cedar
Liquidambar styraciflua / sweet gum
Liriodendron tulipifera / tulip poplar
Magnolia virginiana / sweetbay magnolia
Nyssa sylvatica / black gum
Plantanus occidentalis / American sycamore
Prunus americana / wild plum
Prunus serotina / black cherry
Quercus alba / white oak
Quercus bicolor / swamp white oak
Quercus coccinea / scarlet oak
Quercus palustris / pin oak
Quercus prinus / chestnut oak
Quercus rubra / red oak
Quercus velutina / black oak
Salix nigra / black willow
Sassafras albidum / sassafras
Tilia americana / basswood

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Native Shrubs
To view detailed information, click the plant species name.

Alnus rugosa / speckled alder
Alnus serrulata / smooth alder
Amelanchier canadensis / shadbush serviceberry
Amelanchier laevis / Allegheny serviceberry
Aronia arbutifolia / red chokeberry
Aronia melanocarpa / black chokeberry
Baccharis halimifolia / groundseltree-sea myrtle
Cephalanthus occidentalis / buttonbush
Clethra alnifolia / sweet pepperbush
Cornus amomum / silky dogwood
Cornus racemosa / gray dogwood
Cornus sericea / red-osier dogwood
Hamamelis virginiana / witchhazel
Ilex verticillata / winterberry
Itea virginica / Virginia sweetspire
Iva frutescens / marsh elder
Lindera benzoin / spicebush
Myrica pensylvanica / northern bayberry
Physocarpus opulifolius / common ninebark
Prunus maritima / beach plum
Rhus aromatica / fragrant sumac
Rhus copalina / dwarf winged sumac
Rhus typhina / staghorn sumac
Salix sericea / silky willow
Sambucus canadensis / elderberry
Viburnum dentatum / arrowwood
Viburnum lentago / nannyberry
Viburnum prunifolium / black haw
Viburnum trilobum / cranberry bush

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Streambank Stabilzation Plants
To view detailed information, click the plant species name.

The following plants are available as live steaks, live brush, rooted cuttings and fascines for stream bioengineering projects.

Live stakes, live brush and fascines are harvested when plants are dormant (December - March).

* Non-native cultivar
Cornus amomum / silky dogwood
Cornus racemosa / gray dogwood
Cornus sericea / red-osier dogwood
Salix cotteti / "Banker's" dwarf willow*
Salix exigua / sandbar willow
Salix nigra / black willow
Salix purpurea / "Streamco" willow*
Salix sericea / silky willow