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Best Plants for Bioretention Planting

Recommended Plants for Bio Retention Planting

Common Name

Botanical Name

 

Common Name

Botanical Name

Red Maple

Acer rubrum

 

Sweet Pepperbush

Clethra alnifolia

River Birch

Betula nigra

 

Red Osier dogwood

Cornus sericea

White Ash

Fraxinus americana

 

St.John's Wort

Hypericum densiflorum

Green Ash

Fraxinus pennsylvanica

 

Inkberry

Ilex glabra

Sweetgum

Liquidambar styraciflua

 

Winterberry

Ilex verticillata

Tulip Poplar

Liriodendron tulipifera

 

Virginia Sweetspire

Itea virginica

London Planetree

Platanus x acerifolia

 

Spicebush

Lindera benzoin

White Oak

Quercus alba

 

Baybery

Myrica pensylvanica

Swamp White Oak

Quercus bicolor

 

Common Ninebark

Physocarpus opulifolius

Red Oak

Quercus borealis

 

Arrowwood

Viburnum dentatum

Pin Oak

Quercus palustris

 

Eastern Red Cedar

Juniperus virginiana

Willow Oak

Quercus phellos

 

Basswood

Tilia americana

Bald Cypress(C)

Taxodium distichum

 

Downy Serviceberry

Amelanchier arboreas

Shadblow Serviceberry

Amelanchier canadensis

 

Black Chokeberry

Aronia melanocarpa

Redbud(P)

Cercis canadensis

 

Silky Dogwood

Cornus ammomum

White Flowering Dogwood

Cornus florida

 

Grey dogwood

Cornus racemosa

Sweetbay

Magnolia virginiana

 

nannyberry

Viburnum lentago

Red Chokeberry

Aronia arbutifolia

 

 

 

 

 

 

What's Happening

  • Maryland Biofiltration Soil Requirements Composition - Bioretention Soil Mix (BSM) as provided by the Maryland Department of Transportation. by Anna on Wed, 30 December 2009

Recent Projects

  • Middletown Fire Department
  • Mutationem Consuetudium Lectorum

Recommended Plants for Bio Retention Planting

  • Acer rubrum, Red Maple
  • Betula nigra, River Birch
  • Fraxinus americana, White Ash
  • Fraxinus pennsylvanica, Green Ash
  • Liquidambar styraciflua, Sweetgum
  • Liriodendron tulipifera, Tulip Poplar
  • Platanus x acerifolia, London Planetree
  • Quercus alba, White Oak
  • Quercus bicolor, Swamp White Oak
  • Quercus borealis, Red Oak
  • Quercus palustris, Pin Oak
  • Quercus phellos, Willow Oak
  • Taxodium distichum, Bald Cypress(C)
  • Amelanchier canadensis, Shadblow Serviceberry
  • Cercis canadensis, Redbud(P)
  • Cornus florida, White Flowering Dogwood
  • Magnolia virginiana, Sweetbay
  • Aronia arbutifolia, Red Chokeberry
  • Clethra alnifolia, Sweet Pepperbush
  • Cornus sericea, Red Osier dogwood
  • Hypericum densiflorum, St.John's Wort
  • Ilex glabra, Inkberry
  • Ilex verticillata, Winterberry
  • Itea virginica, Virginia Sweetspire
  • Lindera benzoin, Spicebush
  • Myrica pensylvanica, Baybery
  • Physocarpus opulifolius, Common Ninebark
  • Viburnum dentatum, Arrowwood
  • Juniperus virginiana, Eastern Red Cedar
  • Tilia americana, Basswood
  • Amelanchier arboreas, Downy Serviceberry
  • Aronia melanocarpa, Black Chokeberry
  • Cornus ammomum, Silky Dogwood
  • Cornus racemosa, Grey dogwood
  • Viburnum lentago, nannyberry

Biofiltration Soil Mixture Specifications

Delaware

  • 33.3% Triple Shred Hardwood Mulch
    Bulk Density (bD) = 2.4 yards/T = 833 lbs/yd
  • 33.3% Concrete Sand
    Bulk Density (bD) = .74 yards/T = 2700 lbs/yd
  • 33.3% Sphagnum Peat Moss
    Bulk Density (bD) = 1.5 yards/T = 1344 lbs/yd

Maryland

  • MDOT Specifications 

Pennsylvania

  • PENNDOT Specifications

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