Trees for Wet and Damp Soil Conditions

Critical Note: Use only regionally native plants for beaches, coastal/savannah restoration. For garden damp areas, non-invasive non-natives are acceptable. But along streams, rivers, creeks, or lakes: only regionally native plants.

Recommended Trees

Full Sun: Bald cypress, Cabbage palm, Laurel oak, Pond cypress, River birch, Sugarberry, Swamp white oak, Sweet gum, Sycamore, Water oak, Water tupelo, Weeping willow

Full Sun to Half Sun: American ironwood, Bigleaf magnolia, Black gum, Box elder, Dahoon holly, Gordonia, Juneberry, Mayhaw, Possumhaw, Red maple, Sweet bay, White cedar