Habitat: Forest understory
Characteristics:
Tolerant of shading, slow-growing, long-lived, permanent understory.
Naturally maintained by reproduction in understory.
Examples:
Pawpaw
(
Asimina triloba
)
(
Shown opposite growing in the wild)
Ironwood (
Ostrya virginiana
)
Bluebeech (
Carpinis caroliniana)
Eastern redbud (
Cercis canadensis
)
Serviceberry
(
Amelanchier sp.
)
Hazelnut (
Corylus americana
)
Tolerant of shading, slow-growing,
long-lived, permanent understory.
