SALT INJURY--TOLERANT PLANTS

Salt tolerant plants (though not 100 percent) include:

Norway maple (Acer platanoides) 
Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) 
Paper birch (Betula papyrifera) 
Russian Olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia) 
White Ash (Fraxinus americana) 
Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) 
Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) 
White Spruce (Picea glauca) 
Colorado Blue Spruce (P. pungens) 
Mugo Pine (Pinus mugo) 
Austrian Pine (Pinus nigra) 
White Poplar (Populus alba) Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) Lombardy Poplar (Populus nigra 'Italica') Potentilla White Oak (Quercus alba) Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) Red Oak (Quercus rubra) Black Locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) Spirea vanhouttei

Moderately tolerant plants include:

Amur maple (Acer ginnala) 
Boxelder (Acer negundo) 
Silver Maple (A. saccharinum) 
Black Alder (Aldus glutinosa) 
Green Ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica) Cedar (Juniperus virginiana) Scotch Pine (Pinus sylvestris) Black Cherry (Prunus serotina) Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra) Willow (Salix) Lilac (Syringa vulgaris) American Elm (Ulmus americana)

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