Winter is not far around the corner and deicing salts will be used by road and parking lot maintenance personnel. Excess salts can damage landscape plants. The following are lists of salt tolerant and salt sensitive landscape plants. For areas that receive excess salts from deicing (such as parking lot islands), you should consider salt tolerant species.
Salt Tolerant Shrubs
bayberry
California privet
honeysuckle
Pfitzer juniper
rugosa rose
yucca
Salt Sensitive Shrubs
boxwood
spirea
viburnum
Salt Tolerant Deciduous Trees
boxelder
black cherry
black locust
bur oak
English oak
green ash
honeylocust
red oak
Russian olive
Siberian elm
weeping willow
white oak
white poplar
Salt Sensitive Deciduous Trees
American linden
beech
black walnut
flowering dogwood
ironwood
little-leaf linden
red maple
shagbark hickory
silver maple
sugar maple
sycamore
Salt Tolerant Evergreens
Austrian pine
Japanese black pine
pitch pine
red cedar
white spruce
yew
Salt Sensitive Evergreens
balsam fir
Canadian hemlock
Douglas-fir
eastern white pine
red pine
Information from "De-Icing Salts Can Injure Roadside Vegetation" by Ann B. Gould, Ph.D., Specialist in Plant Pathology in the Nov. 6, 2003 edition of the Plant and Pest Advisory, Landscape, Nursery, and Turf Edition from Rutgers University http://njaes.rutgers.edu/pubs/plantandpestadvisory/2003/ln1106.pdf
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