Appendix 3c. Northeast Shrubs Suitable for Soil Bioengineering Systems (continued) Plant Hardiness Plant Material Common Name Genus/Species Habitat1 Bank Zone3 Zone2 Form4 fresh for Swamp rose Rosa palustris wetland 3b to 7 toe-low rooted streambank Staghorn/Smooth disturbed banks/ Rhus typhina/glabra 3b to 7 upper rooted sumac dry sites Willow, dwarf Salix X cottetii streambank 4 to 7 toe-mid unrooted, rooted ‘Bankers’ streambank Willow, Salix discolor 3b to 7 toe-mid unrooted, rooted forested wetland Willow sandbar, streambank Salix exigua 3 to 7 toe unrooted, rooted sandbars ‘Greenbank’ Willow purpleosier, Salix purpurea streambank 3b to 7 toe-upper unrooted, rooted ‘Streamco’ tidal fresh, Elderberry Sambucus canadensis nontidal, wet 3 to 7 low-mid rooted unrooted meadow Meadowsweet Spirea alba/tomentosa forested wetland 4 to 7 mid-upper rooted tidal fresh, Viburnum, rooted, Viburnum dentatum nontidal, forest 3 to 7 Southern (unrooted) wetland arrowwood Viburnum, rooted, Vibrurnum lentago forested wetland 4 to 7 Nannyberry (unrooted) rooted, Viburnum, Viburnum prunifolium forested wetland 5 to 7 upper (unrooted) blackhaw Viburnum, rooted, Viburnum trilobum forested wetland 2 to 7 lower-mid American (unrooted) cranberrybush
Appendix 3c. Northeast Shrubs Suitable for Soil Bioengineering Systems (continued) Common Name Genus/Species Habitat1 Plant Hardiness Zone2 Bank Zone3 Plant Material Form4 Swamp rose Rosa palustris fresh for wetland streambank 3b to 7 toe-low rooted Staghorn/Smooth sumac Rhus typhina/glabra disturbed banks/ dry sites 3b to 7 upper rooted Willow, dwarf ‘Bankers’ Salix X cottetii streambank 4 to 7 toe-mid unrooted, rooted Willow, Salix discolor streambank forested wetland 3b to 7 toe-mid unrooted, rooted Willow sandbar, ‘Greenbank’ Salix exigua streambank sandbars 3 to 7 toe unrooted, rooted Willow purpleosier, ‘Streamco’ Salix purpurea streambank 3b to 7 toe-upper unrooted, rooted Elderberry Sambucus canadensis tidal fresh, nontidal, wet meadow 3 to 7 low-mid rooted unrooted Meadowsweet Spirea alba/tomentosa forested wetland 4 to 7 mid-upper rooted Viburnum, Southern arrowwood Viburnum dentatum tidal fresh, nontidal, forest wetland 3 to 7 rooted, (unrooted) Viburnum, Nannyberry Vibrurnum lentago forested wetland 4 to 7 rooted, (unrooted) Viburnum, blackhaw Viburnum prunifolium forested wetland 5 to 7 upper rooted, (unrooted) Viburnum, American cranberrybush Viburnum trilobum forested wetland 2 to 7 lower-mid rooted, (unrooted)
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