Woody Plants Native to Nebraska
Compiled by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum

Please send all comments concerning the accuracy of this list to: Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, P.O. Box 830715, Lincoln, NE 68583-0715. Phone (402) 472-2971 or email klarsen1@unl.edu.

Trees (Genus/Species - Common Name)
1. Acer glabrum - Rocky Mountain maple
2. Acer negundo - boxelder maple
3. Acer saccharinum - silver maple
4. Aesculus glabra - Ohio buckeye
5. Asimina triloba - pawpaw
6. Betula occidentalis - water birch
7. Betula papyrifera - paper birch
8. Carya cordiformis - bitternut hickory
9. Carya ovata - shagbark hickory
10. Celtis occidentalis - hackberry
11. Cercis canadensis - eastern redbud
12. Crataegus mollis - downy hawthorn
13. Crataegus succulenta - succulent hawthorn
14. Fraxinus americana - white ash
15. Fraxinus pennsylvanica - green ash
16. Gleditsia triacanthos - honeylocust
17. Gymnocladus dioicus - Kentucky coffeetree
18. Juglans nigra - black walnut
19. Juniperus scopulorum - Rocky Mountain juniper
20. Juniperus virginiana - eastern redcedar
21. Malus ioensis - wild crabapple
22. Morus rubra - red mulberry
23. Ostrya virginiana - hophornbeam (ironwood)
24. Pinus flexilis - limber pine
25. Pinus ponderosa - ponderosa pine
26. Platanus occidentalis - sycamore
27. Populus ´ acuminata - lanceleaf cottonwood
28. Populus angustifolia - narrowleaf cottonwood
29. Populus deltoides - eastern cottonwood
30. Populus tremuloides - quaking aspen
31. Prunus mexicana - big-tree (Mexican) plum
32. Prunus serotina - black cherry
33. Quercus alba - white oak
34. Quercus macrocarpa - bur oak
35. Quercus marilandica - blackjack oak
36. Quercus muehlenbergii - chinkapin oak
37. Quercus rubra - red oak
38. Quercus velutina - black oak
39. Robinia pseudoacacia - black locust
40. Salix amygdaloides - peachleaf willow
41. Salix nigra - black willow
42. Tilia americana - American linden (basswood)
43. Ulmus americana - American elm
44. Ulmus rubra - slippery elm
45. Ulmus thomasi - rock elm

Small Trees/Large Shrubs (occur in both forms)
46. Amelanchier arborea - shadblow serviceberry (juneberry)
47. Prunus americana - American (wild) plum
48. Prunus hortulana - wild goose plum
49. Prunus virginiana - chokecherry
50. Quercus prinoides - dwarf chinkapin oak
51. Salix eriocephala - Missouri River (diamond) willow
52. Salix lutea - yellow (diamond) willow
53. Shepherdia argentea - silver buffaloberry

Shrubs
54. Amelanchier alnifolia - Saskatoon serviceberry (juneberry)
55. Amelanchier humilis - low serviceberry
56. Amorpha canescens - lead plant
57. Amorpha fruticosa - false indigo (indigo-bush)
58. Amorpha nana - dwarf indigo
59. Artemisia cana - silver sagebrush
60. Artemisia filifolia - sand sagebrush
61. Artemisia frigida - fringed sagebrush
62. Artemisia tridentata - big sagebrush
63. Atriplex canescens - four-wing saltbrush
64. Atriplex nuttallii - moundscale
65. Ceanothus americanus - New Jersey tea
66. Ceanothus herbaceous - inland ceanothus
67. Cephalanthus occidentalis - buttonbush
68. Cercocarpus montanus - mountain mahogany
69. Chrysothamnus nauseosus - rabbitbrush
70. Chrysothamnus parryi - parry rabbitbrush
71. Cornus amomum - silky (pale) dogwood
72. Cornus drummondii - roughleaf dogwood
73. Cornus racemosa - gray dogwood
74. Cornus sericea - red-stem (redosier) dogwood
75. Corylus americana - American hazelnut
76. Euonymus atropurpureus - eastern wahoo
77. Juniperus communis - common juniper
78. Juniperus horizontalis - creeping juniper
79. Mahonia repens - creeping mahonia
80. Physocarpus opulifolius - ninebark
81. Prunus besseyi - western sandcherry
82. Rhamnus lanceolata - lanceleaf buckthorn
83. Rhus aromatica - fragrant sumac
84. Rhus copallina - flameleaf (shining) sumac
85. Rhus glabra - smooth sumac
86. Rhus trilobata - skunkbush sumac
87. Ribes americanum - wild black currant
88. Ribes cereum - western red (wax) currant
89. Ribes missouriense - Missouri gooseberry
90. Ribes odoratum - buffalo (clove) currant
91. Ribes oxyacanthoides - bristly gooseberry
92. Ribes setosum - redshoot gooseberry
93. Rosa acicularis - prickly rose
94. Rosa arkansana - Arkansas (prairie) rose
95. Rosa blanda - meadow (smooth wild) rose
96. Rosa setigera - prairie (climbing) rose
97. Rosa woodsii - woods (western wild) rose
98. Rubus allegheniensis - common blackberry
99. Rubus flagellaris - northern dewberry
100. Rubus idaeus - red raspberry
101. Rubus occidentalis - black raspberry
102. Rubus pubescens - dwarf blackberry
103. Salix bebbiana - beaked willow
104. Salix exigua - coyote willow
105. Salix humilis - prairie willow
106. Salix interior - sandbar willow
107. Salix petiolaris - meadow willow
108. Sambucus canadensis - elderberry
109. Sarcobatus vermiculatus - black greasewood
110. Symphoricarpos albus - common snowberry
111. Symphoricarpos occidentalis - western snowberry
112. Symphoricarpos orbiculatus - coralberry (buckbush)
113. Viburnum lentago - nannyberry viburnum
114. Zanthoxylum americanum - common prickly-ash

Vines
115. Ampelopsis cordata - raccoon grape
116. Celastrus scandens - American bittersweet
117. Lonicera dioica - limber honeysuckle
118. Parthenocissus quinquefolia - Virginia creeper
119. Parthenocissus vitacea - woodbine
120. Smilax hispida - bristly greenbriar
121. Toxicodendron radicans - poison ivy
122. Toxicodendron rydbergii - poison ivy
123. Vitis aestivalis - pigeon grape
124. Vitis cinerea - winter grape
125. Vitis riparia - riverbank grape
126. Vitis vulpina - frost grape