Tree grid: good quality sites
Using the tree grids
- Refer to the tree selection guide to determine your site's characteristics.
- Choose the Good, Intermediate or Poor grid based on your site's soil quality.
- Select the column with your soil moisture, and the row with your sun exposure. The trees in the intersecting box are a good fit for your site.
- Trees with an (A) need acid soil and with a (B) need basic soil.
- Special considerations: only plant disease-resistant elms (R). Don’t plant a white group oak within 50’ of each other (white, bur, swamp white, chestnut, chinquapin) to prevent the spread of oak wilt. Don’t plant red group oaks within 50’ of each other (scarlet, pin, red, shingle).
Native trees for good quality sites
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Wet |
Medium |
Dry |
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Full sun |
Large Red maple (A) White oak Pin oak (A) Black walnut Tulip poplar |
Large Black maple Red maple (A) Sugar maple White oak Scarlet oak (A) Chinquapin oak (B) Pin oak (A) Chestnut oak (A) Red oak Black walnut Tulip poplar Cumcumbertree (A) Hemlock
Medium Yellow birch Chokecherry
Small Flowering dogwood (A) American plum Pagoda dogwood (A) |
Large White oak Scarlet oak (A) Chinquapin oak (B) Chestnut oak (A) Red oak Black walnut
Medium Chokecherry
Small Flowering dogwood (A) Pagoda dogwood (A) |
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Part shade |
Large Red maple (A) |
Large Black maple Red maple (A) Sugar maple Hemlock
Medium Striped maple Chokecherry
Small Pagoda dogwood (A) Flowering dogwood (A) American plum Bladdernut |
Medium Chokecherry
Small Pagoda dogwood (A) Flowering dogwood (A) |
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Shade |
Medium American hornbeam
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Large Black maple Sugar maple Hemlock
Medium Striped maple American hornbeam
Small Pagoda dogwood (A) Bladdernut |
Medium American hornbeam
Small Pagoda dogwood (A)
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