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Here ’s a list of eight must - have aboriginal shrub and trees that provide beautiful fall people of color and support wildlife .
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Charlotte Adelman , with her husband Bernard L. Schwartz , is the source ofMidwestern Native Shrubs and tree : Gardening Alternatives to Nonnative Species , An Illustrated Guide , the companion account book toThe Midwestern Native Garden : NativeAlternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants(winner of the 2012 Helen Hull Award from the National Garden Clubs ) ; andPrairie Directory of North America – The UnitedStates , Canada , and Mexico . In 2014 , Adelman was awarded an Audubon Chicago Region Habitat Project Conservation Leadership Award .
1 – Chokeberry (Aronia)
The fearless , adaptable , and fuss free chokeberry shrub render four - season beauty and food for wildlife . Full sun and moist , well - drained situation are best for flowers and fruit . Bees love their flashy displays of fragrant white efflorescence in spring , and later , splendid flushed leaf make free fall sing . Best of all , their fruit bring home the bacon winter food for 21 species of birds , including mockingbirds , grackles , and catbirds , and chokeberries host 29 mintage of butterflies and moth , bring about caterpillars that in turn provender nestlings of many favorite skirt .
2 – Viburnum
Vibrant colors are in fund if you plant these aboriginal alternatives to the Asian viburnums that nurseries often encourage . In dusk , arrowwoods become crimson , yellow or purple , while black - haws turn imperial and red . In natural spring , white , often fragrant bounce flowers invite butterflies and small pollinator that pull nesting birds seeking dirt ball food for their young . Blue - disastrous berries attract 35 bird species , including blue jays , redpolls , and flycatchers . Arrowwood berry ’ high fertile content realise them an indispensable food source for over - wintering and transmigrate birds . Native viburnums host 35 species of Lepidoptera ( butterflies and moths ) , include the hummingbird clearwing moth .
3 – Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)
For smart red , orangish , or xanthous fall foliage , expect no further than native ninebark . In wintertime , exfoliating bark ply decorative interest . Papery red fruit clings into winter unless eaten by birdie . Ninebark host 41 species of Lepidoptera , as well as the ninebark calligraphy mallet .
Do n’t confuse the green - leaved aboriginal coinage with the purple - leaved cultivar , like “ Diablo ” and “ Summer Wine , ” available in many glasshouse . turn leaf purple creates a chemical alteration that makes them indigestible to dependent dirt ball . Nor is ninebark the only “ nativar ” with this job — be wary of violet - leaved versions of American black elderberry , redbud , and American smoke bush . They are often market as blighter resistant , but making these plants unaccessible to aboriginal insects deprives grownup and sister birds of an authoritative food beginning .
4 – Serviceberry, Juneberry (Amelanchierspecies)
take care for an alternative to the nonnative , invasive burning crotch hair ? Serviceberries , or Juneberries , provide blaze red , orange or yellow fall color at the same time . And their fragrant snowy peak in spring look the same time as those of the nonnative , invasive Bradford pear . Do n’t miss their berries , which appear in — you estimate it — June , and are delicious for birds and human being likewise . Serviceberries can be raised single stemmed or many stemmed , as modest trees or shrubs , and host 124 Lepidoptera species . Birds they attract let in Baltimore oriole , wood thrush , catbird , tufted titmouse , and ruby - throated hummingbirds . And , they have exceptional time value to important pollinators , include native bees .
5 – Redbud (Cercis canadensis)
Eastern Redbud ’s ticklish heart - shape gullible leaves turn strikingly yellow in drop , and the tree ’s irregular branching pattern are eye - catching in winter . The gorgeous , Battle of Magenta - pink , early spring bloom pull in early - season butterflies and other ambrosia - seeking insect . The flowers also have special value to aboriginal bees , their master pollinators . Chickadee , northern cardinals , and rose - breasted grosbeak eat the seeds . Redbud hosts 19 species of butterflies and moth let in Henry ’s elfin .
Do deflect the landscape painting - industry - created redbud nativars — such as “ Forest Pansy ” — which have white flower instead of magenta - pink , and have variegated or purple / maroon leaves .
6 – Sumac(Rhusspecies)
Do n’t miss sumach ’ orangeness , purple , and red fall show . well yet , these low - sustenance plants only need mowing or casual pruning . Readily available species are smooth sumac ( Rhus glabra ) , and staghorn sumac ( Rhus typhina ) . Both spring up 10 to 15 feet grandiloquent and wide and have promising red twilight colouration and showy red berries . Staghorn sumach branches finger like velvety antlers . Fragrant sumach ( Rhus aromatica ) grow two to five foundation tall and five to ten feet blanket . Its fragrant leaves turn a mixture of red , burgundy , purple , and green in fall . Sumacs draw aboriginal bee and various pollinating fly ball that dame course nestlings . Small carpenter bee use the theme to make burrow - nest and reproduce . Sumacs host 58 species of Lepidoptera include spring and summertime azure butterflies and the luna moth . More than 98 species of birds eat sumach fruits , summertime through winter , including American robins , scarlet - eyed vireos , purple finches , uncivilised turkeys , easterly towhees , eastern bluebird , and scarlet tanagers . Sumac flower attract aboriginal bees and various pollinating flies that bird course their hungry small fry . But , do avoid the nativar , Rhus aromatica(“Gro - first gear ” ) which neither bloom nor fruits , leave wildlife without aliment .
7 – Birch (Betula)
This iconic tree ’s golden capitulation leaves and showy white bark makes it a real beauty . Like other aboriginal birch , it is more borer repellent than European and Asian birch species . aboriginal birch host 413 butterfly and moth species and feed more than 35 bird species . Canoe birch ’s exfoliating bark provide over - winter insects with concealing place , supplying woodpeckers with food when they need it most .
8 – Oak (Quercus)
In gloam , the around - lobed leave of the swamp white oak turn orangish - gold , yellow , or reddish - purple . Wildlife that dine on oak acorns admit deer , gray and red squirrel , chipmunks , wild turkeys , crowing , flying squirrels , rabbits , possum , down in the mouth John Jay , quail , raccoons , grey and red slyboots , Anas platyrhynchos , and Sir Henry Wood ducks . More than 60 species of razz use oak trees for shelter and nesting . And , native oaks host 534 mintage of butterflies and moth , more species than any other known plant .
All picture in this article are credit of “ Midwestern Native Shrubs and Trees – Gardening Alternatives to Nonnative Species , An Illustrated Guide , ” by Charlotte Adelman & Bernard L. Schwartz , Ohio University Press .
