Plants for the Maine Landscape

Selected Readings and Content

UMaine Extension Bulletins

• Maine Native Plants
  • Gardening to Conserve Maine’s Native Landscape: Plants to Use and Plants to Avoid, Bulletin #2500

• Native Trees and Shrubs for Maine Landscapes
  • Striped Maple or Moosewood (Acer pensylvanicum), Bulletin #2561
  • Hazel Alder or Speckled Alder (Alnus incana ssp. rugosa), Bulletin #2562
  • Shadblow Serviceberry (Amelanchier canadensis), Bulletin #2563
  • Alleghany Serviceberry (Amelanchier laevis), Bulletin #2564
  • Yellow Birch (Betula alleghaniensis), Bulletin #2565
  • Sweet Birch (Betula lenta), Bulletin #2566
  • Gray Birch (Betula populifolia), Bulletin #2567
  • American Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana), Bulletin #2568
  • Pagoda Dogwood (Cornus alternifolia), Bulletin #2569
  • Common Witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana), Bulletin #2570
  • Winterberry (Ilex verticillata), Bulletin #2571
  • Northern Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica), Bulletin #2572
  • Mountain Holly (Nemopanthus mucronatus), Bulletin #2573
  • American Hophornbeam (Ostrya virginiana), Bulletin #2574
  • Black Cherry (Prunus serotina), Bulletin #2575
  • Common Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), Bulletin #2576
  • Rosebay Rhododendron (Rhododendron maximum), Bulletin #2577
  • Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra), Bulletin #2578
  • Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina), Bulletin #2579
  • American Elder (Sambucus canadensis), Bulletin #2580
  • Scarlet Elder (Sambucus racemosa var. pubens), Bulletin #2581
  • Showy Mountain Ash (Sorbus decora), Bulletin #2582
  • Nannyberry Viburnum (Viburnum lentago), Bulletin #2583
  • Flowering Crabapples in Maine, Bulletin #2508

• Maine Invasive Plants
  • Maine Natural Areas Program Advisory List
  • Maine Horticulture Invasive Plant Rules
  • Invasive Plants Threaten Maine’s Natural Treasures, Bulletin #2536

UMaine Extension Videos

• Native Plants in Maine

Books

• Maine Forest Service, Forest Trees of Maine, Centennial Edition also available online
• Mittlehauset, Gregory, Rooney and Weber The Plants of Acadia National Park Orono, ME, University of Maine Press 2010 (Plants of Baxter State Park due out in 2017)
• Lawrence Newcomb, Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide New York and Boston, Little, Brown and Co. 1977, video on how to use the guide

Additional Resources

• Native Plant Finder, Maine Audubon
• Forest Trees of Maine, Centennial Edition – 1908 to 2008, Maine Forest Service
• Invasive Plant Law, Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry
• Native Plant Trust (formerly the New England Wildflower Society)
• Plant Native, Organization Website
• UConn Plant Database