Stata Swale

Plant list

Trees

Betula pendula (White Birch)
Pinus strobus (White Pine)
Salix babylonica (Weeping Willow)

Shrubs

Comptonia peregrine (Sweetfern)
Ilex glabra (Inkberry)

Ferns/Groundcover

Gaultheria humifusa (Wintergreen)
Polystichum acrostichoides (Christmas Fern)
Asarum europaeum (European Ginger)

Ornamental Grasses/Wildflowers

Astilbe varieties
Chasmanthium latifolium (Northern Sea Oats)
Filipendula rubra (Queen of the Prairie)
Heracleum maximum (Common Cowparsnip)
Iris versicolor (Harlequin Blueflag)
Juncus effuses (Common Rush)
Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal Flower)
Scirpus validus (Softstem Bulrush)

Did you know?

Approximately one half of the Stata Center site is drained to the biofiltration swale. The swale is constructed with soils and designed to include specific plant species that act as a natural filter. The plant species in the Stata Swale are capable
of filtering oil and grease as well as debris from stormwater.

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