Trees for Damp Soil

Special note about coastal plants and plants for wet/damp areas in gardens:

Only regionally native plants should be used along beaches, coastal and savannah restoration areas. For gardens with wet/damp areas, non-native plants that are not invasive are suitable. However, if the wet/damp area in question is along a stream, river, creek or lake then only regionally native plants should be used.

American ironwood Carpinus caroliniana Full sun -half sun
Bald cypress Taxodium distichum Full sun
Bigleaf magnolia Magnolia macrophylla Full sun -half sun
Black gum Nyssa sylvatica Full sun -half sun
Box elder Acer negundo Full sun -half sun

Cabbage palm Sabal palmetto Full sun -half sun
Dahoon Holly Ilex cssine Full sun -half sun
Gordonia Gordonia lasianthus Full sun -half sun
Juneberry Amelanchier arborea Full sun -half sun
Laurel oak Quercus laurifolia Full sun

Mayhaw Crataegus opaca Full sun -half sun
Pond cypress Taxodium ascendens Full sun
Possumhaw Ilex decidua Full sun -half sun
Red maple Acer rubrum Full sun -half sun
River birch Betula nigra Full sun

Sugarberry Celtis laevigata Full sun -half sun
Swamp white oak Quercus bicolor Full sun
Sweet bay Magnolia virginiana Full sun -half sun
Sweet gum Liquidambar styraciflua Full sun
Sycamore Platanus occidentalis Full sun -half sun

Water oak Quercus nigra Full sun
Water tupelo Nyssa aquatica Full sun -half sun
White cedar Chamaecyparis thyoides Full sun -half sun
Weeping willow Salix babylonica Full sun

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