STREET TREE SELECTION GUIDE
Shade Trees for Street Planting
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Species
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Mature Height
Tall (more than 40')
Medium (30-40')
Small (less than 30')
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Value as a Street Tree
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Comments
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Botanical Name
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Common Name
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Acer campestre
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Hedge Maple
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Small
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Moderate
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Globe shaped, urban tolerant
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Acer rubrum
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Red Maple
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Tall
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Excellent
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Globe shaped, wet site tolerant, invasive roots
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A. rubrum 'Columnare'
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Columnar Red Maple
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Tall
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Moderate
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Columnar, wet site tolerate, invasive roots
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A. rubrum 'October Glory'
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October Glory Red Maple
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Tall
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Excellent
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Broad oval shape, wet site tolerant, good fall color
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A. rubrum 'Scanlon'
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Scanlon Red Maple
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Medium
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Excellent
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Columnar, wet site tolerant, urban intolerant
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Acer saccharum
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Sugar Maple
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Tall
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Excellent
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Broad oval shape, urban intolerant
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A. saccharum 'Columnare'
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Columnar Sugar Maple
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Tall
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Excellent
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Columnar, urban intolerant
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A. saccharum 'Green Mountain'
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Green Mountain Sugar Maple
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Tall
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Excellent
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Broad oval shape, urban intolerant
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A. saccharum 'Temple's Upright'
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Temple's Upright Sugar Maple
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Tall
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Moderate
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Columnar, urban intolerant
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Aesculus carnea 'Brioti'
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Ruby Horsechestnut
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Medium
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Moderate
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Globe shaped, red flowers, urban tolerant
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Aesculus hippocastanum 'Baumanni'
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Double Flowering Horsechestnut
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Tall
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Moderate
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Narrow conical shape, double white flowers, urban tolerant
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Carpinus betulus
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European Hornbeam
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Small
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Moderate
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Broad oval shape, urban tolerant
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Carpinus betulus 'Fastigiata'
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Pyramidal European Hornbeam
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Medium
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Moderate
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Columnar shape, urban tolerant
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Carpinus caroliniana
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American Hornbeam
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Small
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Moderate
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Spreading shape, difficult to transplant
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Celtis occidentalis
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Common Hackberry
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Tall
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Moderate
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Globe shaped, wet site, dry site, urban tolerant
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Cladrastis kentukea (lutea)
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Yellowwood
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Medium
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Moderate
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Globe shaped, white flowers in early summer
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Fraxinus americana
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White Ash
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Tall
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Excellent
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Globe shaped, urban tolerant, spray for borers
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Fraxinus pennsylvanica "Marshall's Seedless'
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Marshall's Seedless Green Ash
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Tall
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Excellent
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Wet site, urban tolerant, spray for borers
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Gleditsia triacanthos inermis 'Shademaster'
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Shademaster Thornless Honeylocust
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Tall
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Moderate
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Broad oval shape, mimosa webworm problem, urban tolerant
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Gleditsia triacanthos inermis 'Skyline'
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Skyline Thornless Honeylocust
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Tall
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Moderate
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Pyramidal, mimosa webworm problem, urban tolerant
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Liquidambar styraciflua
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American Sweet Gum
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Tall
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Poor-Moderate
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Broad oval shape, good fall color, wet site tolerant, gumballs
are litter problem
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Magnolia xloebneri 'Merrill'
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Dr. Merrill Magnolia
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Small
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Moderate
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Broad oval shape, white flowers, urban tolerant
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Magnolia salicifolia
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Anise Magnolia
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Medium
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Excellent
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Narrow conical shape, white flowers
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Platanus acerifolia
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London Planetree
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Tall
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Moderate
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Spreading shape, urban tolerant
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Platanus occidentalis
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American Sycamore
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Tall
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Poor
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Spreading shape, wet site tolerant, subject to twig blight
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Pyrus calleryana 'Chanticleer'
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Chanticleer Pear
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Medium
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Excellent
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Broad oval shape, urban tolerant, white flowers, red fall color
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Quercus palustris
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Pin Oak
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Tall
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Moderate
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Narrow conical, wet site tolerant, lower branches are a problem
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Quercus phellos
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Willow Oak
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Tall
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Moderate
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Broad oval shape, wet site tolerant, fine texture
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Quercus rubra
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Red Oak
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Tall
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Excellent
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Spreading shape, urban tolerant
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Ulmus americana
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American Elm
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Tall
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Moderate
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Vase shaped, resistant to Dutch Elm Disease
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Zelkova serrata 'Green Vase'
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Japanese Zelkova
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Tall
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Moderate
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Wine-glass shaped, wide canopy, resembles elm, dry site tolerant
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Zelkova serrata 'Village Green'
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Village Green Zelkova
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Tall
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Excellent
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Vase shaped, resembles elm, dry site tolerant
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TREES AND SHRUBS RECOMMENDED FOR WET SITES
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Amelanchier alleghiensis
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Allegheny Serviceberry
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Viburnum recognitum
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Arrowwood Viburnum
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Aronia melanocarpa
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Black Chokeberry
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Nyssa sylvatica
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Black Gum
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Salixiinigra
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Black Willow
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Acer negundo
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Boxelder
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Celphalanthus occidentalis
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Buttonbush
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Sambucus Canadensis
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Elderberry
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Betula populifolia
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Gray Birch
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Fraxinus pennsyanicum
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Green Ash
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Vaccinium corymbosium
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Highbush Blueberry
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Ilex glabra
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Inkberry Holly
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Quercus palustris
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Pin Oak
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Salix
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Pussy Willow
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Aronia arbutifolia
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Red Chokeberry
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Acer rubrum
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Red Maple
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Cornus
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Red Twig Dogwood
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Betula nigra
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River Birch
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Amelanchier canadensis
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Shadblow Serviceberry
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Cornus amomum
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Silky Dogwood
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Acer saccharinum
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Silver Maple
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Alnus serrulata
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Smooth Alder
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Lindera benzoin
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Spicebush
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Salix
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Streamco Willow
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Rhododendron viscosum
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Swamp Azalea
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Rosa palustris
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Swamp Rose
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Quercus bicolor
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Swamp White Oak
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Magnolia virgineana
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Sweetbay magnolia
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Liquidambar styraciflora
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Sweetgum
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Clethra alnifolia
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Sweet Pepperbush
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Platanus occidentalis
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Sycamore
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Itea virginica
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Virginia Sweetspire
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Ilex verticillata
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Winterberry Holly
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Area Classification
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Street Hierarchy
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Commercial
(Maximum Footcandles)
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Intermediate
(Maximum Footcandles)
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Residential
(Maximum Footcandles)
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Collector/or greater
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1.2
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0.9
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0.6
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Minor-residential subcollector
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0.9
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0.6
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0.4
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Local
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0.6
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0.4
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0.4
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Vehicular Use Area Only
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General Parking & Pedestrian Safety
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Level of Activity
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Maximum Lux
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Maximum Footcandles
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Maximum Lux
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Maximum Footcandles
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Low activity
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5
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0.5
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2
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0.2
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Medium activity
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11
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1
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6
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0.6
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High activity
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22
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2
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10
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0.9
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Walkways & Bikeway Classification
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Maximum Average Level Footcandles
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Mounting Heights 3 to 5 meters (9 to 15 feet) Footcandles
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Mounting Heights 5 to 10 meters (15 to 30 feet) Footcandles
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Sidewalks (roadside) and Type A bikeways:
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Commercial Areas
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0.9
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2.0
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4.0
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Intermediate Areas
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0.6
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1.0
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2.0
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Residential Areas
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0.2
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0.4
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0.8
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Walkways distant from roadways and Type B bikeways, park walkways
and bikeways
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0.5
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0.6
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1.0
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Pedestrian Tunnels
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4.0
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5.0
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-
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Pedestrian Overpasses
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0.3
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0.4
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-
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Pedestrian Stairways
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0.6
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0.8
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-
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