Stone harbor Bird Sanctuary
These are plants that live on the edge of streams and marsh lands, creating a transitional area of vegetation.
Box Elder
Invasive plant in northeast
Red Maple
Butterflies like its flowers, Songbirds like the fruit
Shadbush
Food for birds
Indians ate fruit
Devils walking stick
Songbirds like fruit
American Hornbeam
catkins eaten by songbirds
Coastal Sweet Pepperbush
Attracts Butterflies
Hedge Bindweed
“Wild Morning Glory” attracts butterflies & birds
Cleavers
Can be used to make a coffee like beverage
Black Huckleberry
berries are eaten by birds
Honey locust
Reaches heights of 66” to 100’
Witch hazel
food and cover for birds
American Holly
Fruit for 30 species of songbirds & box turtles
Marion grass
provide cover & seeds for birds
Sweet Gum
Seeds for Songbirds
Maleberry
A wildflower
Spreading Dogbane
songbirds like seeds
Wax Myrtle
birds like berries
Black Gum
a favorite of Robins
Red chokeberry
birds enjoy berries
Deer tongue grass
Dewberry
provides food and cover for songbirds
Swamp dewberry
a dull blue dye can be created from its berries
White willow
Hippocrates used in the 5th century
Weeping willow
seed spread by wind, stream bank stabilization
Cat greenbrier
food for songbirds
False Solomon's seal
a wildflower
Common greenbrier
birds like berries
Greenbrier
birds like berries
Lanced-leaved goldenrod
birds & butterflies are like its yellow flowers
Goldenrod
birds & butterflies are like its yellow flowers
Poison Ivy
Birds eat the berries
Eastern Hemlock
Magnolia warbler like these
American Elm
birds and mammals feed on fruit and buds
Highbush blueberry bees & birds love theses, me. too!
Violet
butterflies like theses
Rough cocklebur
watch they ill stick to your slacks
Living on the Edge
