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List of Game Cover Plants

The following group of plants are valuable for use as ground cover where there is also a chance to provide suitable shelters for game birds, especially grouse. These groups are: (A) Plants of which the buds, blossoms, and foliage are eaten by game birds, and (B) Plants of which the nuts or seeds are eaten by game birds. These are mostly native plants.

A. Foliage, Buds, and Blossoms (Spring Cover):

Acer (in variety) Maple Alnus (in variety) Alder Aster (in variety) Hardy Aster Astilbe biternata Populus (in variety) Poplar Portulaca oleracea Purslane Prunus (in variety) Wild Cherry and Plum Pyrus (in variety) Crab False Goat's Beard Azalea (in variety) Azalea Benzoin aestivale Spice Bush Betula (in variety) Birch Corylus (in variety) Hazelnut Epigaea repens Trailing Arbutus Equisetum hyemale Horse-tail Rushes Fagus (in variety) Beech Heuchera (in variety) Coral-bells Kalmia (in variety) Laurel Mitchella repens Partridge Berry Ostrya virginiana Hop Hornbeam Oxalis (in variety) Wood Sorrel Picea (in variety) Spruce B. Nuts or Seeds (Autumn Cover):

Acer (in variety) Maple Belamcanda chinensis Blackberry Lily Bidens frondosa Sticktight Carex (in variety) Sedge Castanea (in variety) Chestnut Ranunculus (in variety) Buttercup Rubus (in variety) Brambles Salix (in variety) Willow Sambucus (in variety) Elderberry Saxifraga (in variety) Stone-breaker Smilax (in variety) Greenbrier Stellaria media Chickweed Taraxacum officinale Dandelion Thalictrum (in variety) Meadow-rue Thuja (in variety) Arborvitae Trifolium (in variety) Clover Vaccinium (in variety) Blueberry Veronica (in variety) Speedwell Corylus (in variety) Hazelnut Fagus americana Beechnut Geum (in variety) Avens Hamamelis virginiana Witch Hazel Helianthemum canadense Frost-weed