Native Trees Supporting Coastal Habitats & Wildlife

Below is a selection of trees that make beautiful additions to your landscape and are important components of coastal habitats. Because the understory of your landscape is important to wildlife, the list includes small trees we recommend you plant as companions to large shade and specimen trees.

Evergreen

SHADE & SPECIMEN TREES

Loblolly Bay (Gordonia lasianthus)
Southern Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana var. silicicola)
Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora)
Sweetbay (Magnolia virginiana)
Yellow Slash Pine (Pinus elliottii)
Spruce Pine (Pinus glabra)
Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris)
Pond Pine (Pinus serotina)
Live Oak (Quercus virginiana)
Cabbage Palm (Sabal palmetto)

UNDERSTORY TREES

Dahoon Holly (Ilex cassine)
American Holly (Ilex opaca)
Wild Olive (Osmanthus americanus)
Red Bay (Persea borbonia & Persea palustris)
Carolina Cherry (Prunus caroliniana)

Deciduous

SHADE & SPECIMEN TREES

Red Maple(Acer rubrum)
River Birch (Betula nigra)
Pignut Hickory (Carya glabra)
Sugarberry (Celtis laevigata)
American Beech (Fagus grandifolia)
Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
Sweetgum (Liquidamber styraciflua)
Southern Crab Apple (Malus angustifolia)
Blackgum (Nyssa sylvatica)
Black Cherry (Prunus serotina)
White Oak (Quercus alba)
Bluff Oak (Quercus austrina)
Southern Red Oak (Quercus falcata)
Overcup Oak (Quercus lyrata)
Swamp Chestnut Oak (Quercus michauxii)
Cherrybark Oak (Quercus pagoda)
Shumard Oak (Quercus shumardii)
Carolina Willow (Salix caroliniana)
Black Willow (Salix nigra)
Basswood (Tilia americana)
Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum)
Southern Pricklyash (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis)

UNDERSTORY TREES

Red Buckeye (Aesculus pavia)
Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
Fringe Tree (Chionanthus virginicus)
Dogwood (Cornus florida)
Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)
Two-wing Silverbell (Halesia diptera)
Red Mulberry (Morus rubra)
Sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
American Snowbell (Styrax americana)