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The Registry of Nature Habitats - Winter Plants
Components of a Nature
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Not everyone will be blessed with all sixteen Habitat Components on their property. This does not mean that introducing as many as possible will not
enhance wildlife. The key is to understant each of the components, what they are, how they assist in nature and what wildlife will be assisted by their availability.
Living
Winter Plants - Winter-fruiting plants are those whose fruits remain
attached to the plants long after they first become ripe in the
fall. Many are not palatable until they have frozen and thawed many
times. Examples are glossy black chokecherry, Siberian and "red
splendor" crabapple, snowberry, bittersweet, sumacs, American
highbush cranberry, eastern and European wahoo, Virginia creeper,
and Chinaberry.
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