Providing All the Ingredients of Habitat
FOOD
You can provide food for wildlife in several ways
Feeders and loose seed.
Plantings which provide occasional forage
A landscape which can provide food all season
Trees for the Conservation Landscape
Black Gum (Black Tupelo) (Nyssa sylvatica) This tree has a dense, conical or sometimes flat-topped crown and many slender, nearly horizontal branches. The glossy foliage turns scarlet in the fall. The black tupelo bears fruit with sour pulp. A handsome ornamental and shade tree, Black Tupelo is also a honey plant. The juicy fruit is consumed by many birds and mammals.
Deciduous Holly (Ilex vomitoria)
This is a much-branched, thicket-forming shrub or small tree with a rounded,
open crown, small shiny leaves, and abundant, round, shiny red berries. The
leaves contain caffeine, and American Indians used them to prepare a tea to
induce vomiting and as a laxative. Tribes from the interior traveled to the
coast in large numbers each spring to partake of this tonic. This tree is
also used by songbirds and small mammals.
Black Cherry (Prunus Serotina)
Used by songbirds, butterflies and small mammals.
Oaks (Quercus spp.)
Used by songbirds (nesting), hummingbirds (nesting) and small mammals.
Hickories (Carya spp.)
Used by songbirds (nesting), hummingbirds (nesting) and small mammals.
Redmulberry
(Morus rubra) Used by songbirds, butterflies and small mammals.
Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
Or Roughleaf Dogwood (Cornus drumundii)
Used by songbirds, butterflies, hummingbirds and small mammals.
Hawthorns (Crataegus
spp.)
Red-Osier Dogwood (Cornus
stolonifera)