Flood Tolerance of Selected Trees

Tolerant

Silver maple
Sweetgum
Persimmon
Green ash
Honeylocust
Overcup oak
Eastern cottonwood
Water hickory
Black willow
Tupelo gum
Bald cypress

Moderately Tolerant

Red mulberry
Swamp chestnut oak
Hackberry
Winged elm
Hawthorn
Osage orange
Boxelder
Loblolly pine
River birch
American elm
Sycamore
American holly

Intolerant

American ash
Chinkapin oak
Mockernut hickory
Shagbark hickory
Black locust
Sassafras
Sourwood
Southern red oak
American basswood
Blackjack oak
Black cherry
Shortleaf pine
Virginia pine
Eastern red cedar
Eastern redbud
Black walnut
Swamp hickory
American beech
Tulip poplar
Yellow buckeye
Sugar maple
Post oak

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF FOREST RESOURCES EXTENSION PUBLICATION FOR 94-061. 7/1994.