-Trees - Overstory

-Trees - Understory

-Shrubs

See also
Highlands

Piedmont

Inner Coastal Plain

Outer Coastal Plain

PROJECTS
Mount Holly
Vincentown
Pohatcong
Hackettstown

RESOURCES
Restoring Riparian
  Forest Buffers
Step by Step
  Restoration
Native Plants
Riparian Buffer Links

Native Trees and Shrubs for Riparian Forest Buffers
New Jersey, Ridge and Valley

Color indicates species is more commonly available.

Trees - Overstory
Sugar maple - Acer saccharum
Yellow birch - Betula alleghaniensis
Sweet or Black birch - Betula lenta
River birch - Betula nigra
Bitternut hickory - Carya cordiformis
Pignut hickory - Carya glabra
Shagbark hickory - Carya ovata
Mockernut hickory - Carya tomentosa
Hackberry - Celtis occidentalis
American beech - Fagus grandifolia
White ash - Fraxinus americana
Green ash - Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Larch or Tamarack - Larix laricina
Tuliptree - Liriodendron tulipifera
Black spruce - Picea mariana
Red spruce - Picea rubens
Mountain pine - Pinus pungens
Red pine - Pinus resinosa
Pitch pine - Pinus rigida
White pine - Pinus strobus
Sycamore - Platanus occidentalis
Swamp white oak - Quercus bicolor
Scarlet oak - Quercus coccinea
Pin oak - Quercus palustris
Chestnut oak - Quercus prinus
Red oak - Quercus rubra
Black oak - Quercus velutina
Black willow - Salix nigra
Linden or Basswood - Tilia americana
Eastern hemlock - Tsuga canadensis
Slippery Elm - Ulmus rubra

Trees - Understory
Striped Maple or Moosewood - Acer pennsylvanicum
Mountain maple - Acer spicatum
Speckled or rough alder - Alnus incana
Smooth alder - Alnus serrulata
Downy juneberry - Amelanchier arborea
Shadbush - Amelanchier canadensis
Smooth juneberry - Amelanchier laevis
Paper birch - Betula papyrifera
Gray birch - Betula populifolia
Alternate-leaf dogwood - Cornus alternifolia
Ironwood - Carpinus caroliniana
Flowering dogwood - Cornus florida
Witch hazel - Hamamelis virginiana
Red cedar - Juniperus virginiana
Black gum - Nyssa sylvatica
Hophornbeam - Ostrya virginiana
Choke cherry - Prunus virginiana
Aromatic sumac - Rhus aromatica
Winged sumac - Rhus coppalina
Nannyberry - Viburnum lentago
Possumhaw - Viburnum nudum
Blackhaw - Viburnum prunifolium

Shrubs
Red chokeberry - Aronia arbutifolia
Black chokeberry - Aronia melanocarpa
Purple chokeberry - Aronia prunifolia
Buttonbush - Cephalanthus occidentalis
Virgin's bower - Clematis virginiana
Sweetfern - Comptonia peregrina
Silky dogwood - Cornus amomum
Gray dogwood - Cornus racemosa
Round-leaved dogwood - Cornus rugosa
Redosier dogwood - Cornus stolonifera
American hazelnut - Corylus americana
Beaked hazelnut - Corylus cornuta
American strawberry-bush - Euonymus americanus
Black huckleberry - Gaylussaccia baccata
Winterberry - Ilex verticillata
Mountain laurel - Kalmia latifolia
Spicebush - Lindera benzoin
Maleberry - Lyonia ligustrina
Northern bayberry - Myrica pennsylvanica
Common ninebark - Physocarpus opulifolius
Rosebay rhododendron - Rhododendron maximum
Pinxterbloom azalea - Rhododendron periclymenoides
Swamp azalea - Rhododendron viscosum
Swamp rose - Rosa palustris
Pussy willow - Salix discolor
Elderberry - Sambucus canadensis
Meadowsweet - Spirea latifolia
Steeplebush - Spirea tomentosa
American bladdernut - Staphylea trifolia
Lowbush blueberry - Vaccinium angustifolium
Highbush blueberry - Vaccinium corymbosum
Maple-leaved viburnum - Viburnum acerifolium
Witherod - Viburnum cassenoides
Arrowwood - Viburnum dentatum