Bald Cypress

Bright yellow-green needles in spring turning to rich orange to pumpkin brow in autumn. Deciduous. Grows in wide range of soil conditions, from wet, swampy areas to dry ground. Use for lumber and furniture. Grows 50-70 ft. Spread-20 feet.

Swamp White Oak

Grows 70-75 feet in height and spread. Has a broad, open rounded crown. Does well in wet, swampy conditions along rivers and streams. Excellent choice for wetland plantings. Fall color is yellow-bronze. River Birch-Grows up to 70 feet tall. The trunk generally divides low into several upright trunks. Fruit is cone-like, aggregate, 1 to 1 1/2 inches long, with many hairy scales, reddish brown, containing many tiny, 3-winged seeds, ripen and break apart in the fall. Bark is smooth on young trees, salmon to rust colored; developing papery scales, exfoliating horizontally with several colors (creamy to orangish-brown) visible; later developing coarse scales.

River Birch

Medium size tree reaching up to 70 feet tall. The fruits of the River Birch mature in the spring following flowering. The trunk of this tree often is short, branching into several large limbs that grow upward. The bark of younger trees is pinkish to reddish brown. When older it is shaggy and silver-gray to black. The River Birch favors moist soils and typically is found growing on stream banks and in swampy lowlands.

Pin Oak

Fast growing up to 75 feet in height. Spread is 25-40 feet. Fine textured leaves are deeply cut and assume a russet, brown or red autumn color. Leaves hand on longer than any other hardwood in the winter. The upper branches are upright, the middle branches are horizontal and the lower branches are pendulous, giving this tree a beautiful and graceful pyramidal outline. Acorns are food wildlife food. Makes a good windbreak almost year around. Will tolerate wet soil but prefers moist rich, acid, well drained soils.

Red Osier Dogwood

Small to medium sized shrub with numerous stems forming thickets up to 15 feet tall but generally shorter. Flowers are small, dull white in flat top clusters about 2 inches across appearing in late early summer and fruit is dull white, 1/4 to 1/3 inch in diameter in rounded clusters. Maturing in late summer to fall.