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Shrubs of Wisconsin
sorted alphabetically by Latin name
| (207 species, using a reduced set of 8 "lumped" names for Rubus, plus 1 entry treating the 23 shrub species of Crataegus only to the genus level) |
| Common Name | Latin Name |
|
Gymnosperms
(needled) |
|
| common juniper | Juniperus communis |
| creeping juniper | Juniperus horizontalis |
| American yew | Taxus canadensis |
|
Angiosperms
(broad-leaved) |
|
| mountain maple | Acer spicatum |
| black alder | Alnus glutinosa |
| speckled alder | Alnus incana (= A. rugosa) |
|
green alder |
Alnus viridis (=A. crispa) |
| Bartram's juneberry | Amelanchier bartramiana |
| inland juneberry | Amelanchier interior |
| smooth juneberry | Amelanchier laevis |
| New England serviceberry | Amelanchier sanguinea |
| dwarf serviceberry | Amelanchier spicata |
| lead-plant | Amorpha canescens |
| desert indigo-bush | Amorpha fruticosa |
| porcelain-berry | Ampelopsis brevipedunculata (Maxim.) Trautv. |
| bog Rosemary | Andromeda glaucophylla |
| Hercules-club | Aralia elata (Miq.) Seem. |
| eastern dwarf mistletoe | Arceuthobium pusillum |
| bearberry | Arctostaphylos uva-ursi |
| black chokeberry | Aronia melanocarpa |
| black chokecherry, hybrid chokeberry | Aronia X prunifolia (Marshall) Rehder (pro sp.) |
| Japanese barberry | Berberis thunbergii |
| common barberry | Berberis vulgaris |
| bog birch | Betula pumila |
| pea-tree; Siberian pea-shrub | Caragana arborescens |
| New Jersey tea | Ceanothus americanus |
| prairie red-root | Ceanothus herbaceus |
| Asian bittersweet | Celastrus orbiculata |
| American bittersweet | Celastrus scandens |
| buttonbush | Cephalanthus occidentalis |
| leather-leaf | Chamaedaphne calyculata |
| purple clematis | Clematis occidentalis |
| clematis | Clematis virginiana |
| sweet-fern | Comptonia peregrina |
| alternate-leaved dogwood | Cornus alternifolia |
| blue-fruited dogwood | Cornus amomum |
| bunchberry | Cornus canadensis |
| rough-leaved dogwood | Cornus drummondii C.A.Mey. |
| gray dogwood | Cornus racemosa |
| round-leaved dogwood | Cornus rugosa |
| red-osier dogwood | Cornus stolonifera |
| American hazelnut | Corylus americana |
| beaked hazelnut | Corylus cornuta |
| shiny cotoneaster |
Cotoneaster lucidus |
| hawthorne; thornapple | Crataegus |
| northern bush-honeysuckle | Diervilla lonicera |
| eastern leatherwood | Dirca palustris |
| trailing arbutus | Epigaea repens |
| winged burning-bush | Euonymus alata |
| burning bush | Euonymus atropurpurea |
| European spindle-tree | Euonymus europaea |
| running strawberry-bush | Euonymus obovatus Nutt. |
| creeping snowberry | Gaultheria hispidula |
| wintergreen | Gaultheria procumbens |
| huckleberry | Gaylussacia baccata |
| dyer's greenweed | Genista tinctoria L. |
| American witch-hazel | Hamamelis virginiana |
| false heather, woolly beach-heather | Hudsonia tomentosa Nutt. |
| Kalm's St. John's-wort | Hypericum kalmianum |
| shrubby St. John's-wort | Hypericum prolificum |
| mountain holly | Ilex mucronata |
| common winterberry holly | Ilex verticillata |
| bog-laurel | Kalmia polifolia |
| Labrador-tea | Ledum groenlandicum |
| shrubby bush-clover, Thunberg's lespedeza | Lespedeza thunbergii (DC.) Nakai |
| common privet, European privet | Ligustrum vulgare L. |
| American fly honeysuckle | Lonicera canadensis |
| limber honeysuckle | Lonicera dioica |
| hairy honeysuckle | Lonicera hirsuta |
| bearberry honeysuckle | Lonicera involucrata |
| Japanese honeysuckle | Lonicera japonica |
| Amur honeysuckle | Lonicera mackii |
| Morrow's honeysuckle |
Lonicera morrowi |
| swamp fly honeysuckle | Lonicera oblongifolia |
| grape honeysuckle | Lonicera reticulata |
| Tartarian honeysuckle | Lonicera tatarica |
| mountain fly honeysuckle | Lonicera villosa |
| showy bush honeysuckle | Lonicera X bella |
| dwarf honeysuckle | Lonicera xylosteum |
| matrimony-vine | Lycium barbarum L. |
| Canadian moonseed | Menispermum canadense |
| American mulberry, red mulberry | Morus rubra L. |
| sweet gale | Myrica gale |
| brittle prickly-pear |
Opuntia fragilis (Nutt.) Haw. |
| eastern prickly-pear cactus | Opuntia humifusa (Raf.) Raf. var. humifusa |
| prickly-pear | Opuntia macrorhiza Engelm. |
| Virginia creeper | Parthenocissus quinquefolia |
| Boston Ivy | Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Siebold & Zucc.) Planch. |
| grape woodbine | Parthenocissus inserta |
| shrubby cinquefoil | Pentaphylloides floribunda (=Potentilla fruticosa) |
| European mock orange | Philadelphus coronarius |
| ninebark | Physocarpus opulifolius |
| American plum | Prunus americana |
| Canadian plum | Prunus nigra |
| sand cherry | Prunus pumila |
| Nanking cherry | Prunus tomentosa Thunb. |
| chokecherry | Prunus virginiana |
| common hop-tree, stinking-ash, wafer-ash | Ptelea trifoliata L. |
| pear | Pyrus communis L. |
| alder buckthorn | Rhamnus alnifolia |
| European buckthorn | Rhamnus cathartica |
| glossy buckthorn | Rhamnus frangula |
| lance-leaved buckthorn |
Rhamnus lanceolata |
| Lapland azalea | Rhododendron laponicum (L.) Wahlenb. |
| black jet-bead | Rhodotypos scandens (Thunb.) Makino |
| fragrant sumac | Rhus aromatica |
| winged sumac | Rhus copallina |
| smooth sumac | Rhus glabra |
| staghorn sumac | Rhus typhina |
| American wild currant | Ribes americanum |
| eastern prickly gooseberry | Ribes cynosbati |
| skunk currant | Ribes glandulosum |
| northern gooseberry | Ribes hirtellum |
| Canadian black currant | Ribes hudsonianum |
| bristly black currant | Ribes lacustre |
| Missouri gooseberry | Ribes missouriense |
| European black currant | Ribes nigrum |
| golden currant | Ribes odoratum |
| Canadian gooseberry | Ribes oxyacanthoides |
| garden red currant | Ribes rubrum |
| swamp red currant | Ribes triste |
| bristly locust | Robinia hispida L. |
| bristly rose | Rosa acicularis |
| dwarf prairie rose | Rosa arkansana |
| wild rose | |
| dog rose | Rosa canina |
| Carolina rose | Rosa carolina |
| cabbage rose | Rosa centifolia |
| sweetbrier rose | Rosa eglanteria |
| French rose | Rosa gallica |
| double cinnamon rose | Rosa majalis |
| multiflora rose | Rosa multiflora |
| swamp rose | Rosa palustris |
| rugosa rose | Rosa rugosa |
| climbing prairie rose | Rosa setigera |
| Scotch rose | Rosa spinosissima |
| western rose | Rosa woodsii |
| common blackberry | Rubus allegheniensis |
| smooth blackberry | Rubus canadensis |
| common dewberry | Rubus flagellaris |
| bristly dewberry | Rubus hispidus |
| American red raspberry | Rubus idaeus |
| black raspberry | Rubus occidentalis |
| thimbleberry | Rubus parviflorus |
| dwarf red raspberry | Rubus pubescens |
| Bebb's Willow | Salix bebbiana |
| sage-leaved willow | Salix candida |
| large gray willow | Salix cineraea L. |
| heart-leaf willow | Salix cordata |
| pussy willow | Salix discolor |
| diamond willow | Salix eriocephala (=S. rigida) |
| sandbar willow | Salix exigua (=S. interior) |
| prairie willow | Salix humilis |
| shining willow | Salix lucida |
| bayberry willow | Salix myricoides |
| black willow | Salix nigra |
| bog willow | Salix pedicellaris |
| satiny willow | Salix pellita |
| bay-leaved willow | Salix pentandra |
| meadow willow | Salix petiolaris |
| diamond-leaf willow | Salix planifolia Pursh |
| basket willow | Salix purpurea |
| balsam willow | Salix pyrifolia |
| silky willow | Salix sericea |
| autumn willow | Salix serissima |
| black elderberry | Sambucus canadensis |
| red elderberry | Sambucus racemosa (= S. pubens) |
| sassafras | Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees |
| buffalo-berry | Shepherdia argentea |
| buffalo-berry | Shepherdia canadensis |
| three-toothed cinquefoil | Sibbaldiopsis tridentata (Aiton) Rydb. |
| bristly greenbrier | Smilax tamnoides L. |
| bittersweet nightshade | Solanum dulcamara |
| false spiraea | Sorbaria sorbifolia (L.) A.Braun |
| American mountain-ash | Sorbus americana Marshall |
| European mountain-ash | Sorbus aucuparia L. |
| northern mountain-ash, showy mountain-ash | Sorbus decora (Sarg.) C.K.Schneid. |
| white meadow sweet | Spiraea alba |
| hard hack | Spiraea tomentosa |
| American bladdernut | Staphylea trifolia L. |
| snowberry | Symphoricarpos albus |
| western snowberry | Symphoricarpos occidentalis |
| coral-berry | Symphoricarpos orbiculatus |
| common lilac | Syringa vulgaris |
| poison ivy | Toxicodendron radicans |
| western poison ivy | Toxicodendron rydbergii |
| poison sumac | Toxicodendron vernix |
| low-bush blueberry | Vaccinium angustifolium |
| dwarf bilberry | Vaccinium cespitosum |
| high-bush blueberry | Vaccinium corymbosum |
| cranberry | Vaccinium macrocarpon |
| Canada blueberry | Vaccinium myrtilloides |
| small cranberry | Vaccinium oxycoccos |
| Blue Ridge blueberry | Vaccinium pallidum |
| lingonberry | Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
| maple-leaved viburnum | Viburnum acerifolium |
| southern arrow-wood | Viburnum dentatum |
| moose-berry viburnum | Viburnum edule |
| wayfaring tree | Viburnum lantana |
| nannyberry |
Viburnum lentago |
| northern wild-raisin | Viburnum nudum L. var. cassinoides (=Viburnum cassinoides) |
| cranberry viburnum | Viburnum opulus |
| black-haw | Viburnum prunifolium |
| arrow-wood | Viburnum rafinesquianum |
| greater periwinkle | Vinca minor L. |
| summer grape | Vitis aestivalis |
| fox grape | Vitis labrusca |
| river bank grape | Vitis riparia |
| northern prickly-ash | Zanthoxylum americanum |
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