HORT217 - Woody Landscape Plants - Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture

Plant Groups

This course is divided into 12 weekly plant groups plus one special plant group which is presented without a field walk or identification quiz (see calendar). The links below open PDF files containing the full list of plants to be covered that week. Plants with a superscript X after the scientific name are extra plants. These will be shown and discussed by teaching assistants during field walks, but you will not otherwise be required to know these for quizzes or exams. Important to some however, you will be queried on these however as a source of bonus points.

Group 1 Small Trees (PDF)

Group 2 Large Trees (PDF)

Group 3 Native Trees and Shrubs (PDF)

Group 4 Non-native Small Shrubs (PDF)

Group 5 Non-native Large Shrubs (PDF)

Group 6 Climbers and Groundcovers (PDF)

Group 7 Site-tolerant Woody Plants (PDF)

Group 8 Plants with Colorful Fall Foliage (PDF)

Group 9 Woody Plants at Horticulture Park (PDF)

Group 10 Plants with Special Winter Interest (PDF)

Group 11 Evergreen Trees (PDF)

Special Group Southern and Western US Plants (PDF)

Group 12 Evergreen Shrubs (PDF)

The numbers shown between latin and common names in these lists are plant size group numbers. Click here to get an explanation of the Plant Size Group Numbers presented in these Plant Groupings lists (you are not required to memorize size groups, but you may find them useful study tools).