Best Bets: Plants for Particular Uses
The following are plants whose native habitats are coastal dunes or saltwater/brackish water marshes and/or those that can tolerate salt spray from roadside salt applications. The species included are those which are recommended in at least three of the resources listed below. Consult those lists for further details.
Grasses, Sedges & Rushes | Ground Covers | Perennials | Shrubs | Trees | Vines | Resources | How to Use the Fact Sheets
Grasses, Sedges & Rushes
Ground Covers
Perennials
Shrubs
Trees
Vines
Resources
- Native Plants for Wildlife Habitat and Conservation Landscaping, (Chesapeake Bay Watershed), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
- Salt-Resistant Perennial Plants, New Jersey Cooperative Extension (Rutgers)
- Salt Tolerant Grasses, Hoffman Nursery (North Carolina)
- Salt Tolerant Species List, City of New York Parks & Recreation
- Salt Tolerant Northern Neck Native Plants, Virginia Native Plant Society
- Salt Tolerant Plants, Norfolk Botanical Garden
- Salt Tolerant Plants, North Carolina Cooperative Extension
- Salt Tolerant Plants (Recommendations by North Carolina Extension), Pender Pines Garden Center
- Salt Tolerant Plants for the South Carolina Coast, Clemson Cooperative Extension
- Trees and Shrubs That Tolerate Saline Soils, Salt Spray, and De-Icing Salts, VCE Publication 430-031
- Vermont Rain Garden Plant List, University of Vermont (includes tolerance to salt)