NOTE: Refer to the B.C. Forage Reference Binder (B.C. Forage Council) for specific recommendations for your locality.

1. Shrubs - Water’s Edge

Willow (Salix sp.)
Excellent for revegetating eroding streambanks, can withstand flooding for long periods and create stable, overhanging banks. Select native species common to the same drainage or adjacent drainages.
Revegetation methods: transplant stem cuttings or nursery grown seedlings.

Alder (Alnus sp.)
Grows well on poorly developed soils that are primarily cobbles and gravels. Rarely browsed by livestock, stabilizes streambanks, creates overhanging banks and reduces erosion from spring floods.
Revegetation methods: direct seed or planting nursery grown seedlings.

Red-osier dogwood (Cornus stolonifera)
Found along fast-moving streams and rivers. Grows on poorly developed soils and is very tolerant of prolonged periods of flooding. Resistant to flooding due to strong roots and stout stems.
Revegetation methods: direct seed, transplant stem cuttings, or nursery grown seedlings.

2. Shrubs - Upper Banks

Snowberry (Symphoricarpos sp.)
Once established, grows at a moderate rate and spreads rapidly by root sprouts.
Revegetation methods: nursery grown seedlings, rooted cuttings, wild transplants or seed.

Rose (Rosa sp.)
Fast-growing, drought tolerant, found in floodplains and along streambanks. Excellent soil stabilizer and wildlife species. Shallow, much-branched rhizomatous root system that readily sprouts and suckers.
Revegetation methods: nursery grown stock, stem cuttings, transplants or seed.

Chokecherry (Prunus sp.)
Fast-growing, long-lived. Excellent cold hardiness and drought tolerance. Good wildlife species.
Revegetation method: direct seeding, nursery grown seedlings.

3. Grasses - Water’s Edge

Garrison Creeping Foxtail
Courtenay, Johnstone or Stef Tall Fescue
Pennlawn or Boreal Creeping Red Fescue
Rival or Palatan Reed Canarygrass

4. Grasses - Streambanks

Sodar Streambank Wheatgrass
Chief or Clarke Intermediate Wheatgrass
Orbit Tall Wheatgrass

5. Grasses - Upper Banks

Fleet, Paddock or Regar Meadow Brome
Walsh Western Wheatgrass
Elbee Northern Wheatgrass
Greenleaf Pubescent Wheatgrass
Revenue Slender Wheatgrass

6.Sedges - Water’s Edge

Aggressive colonizers with extensive underground biomass. May spread on their own from adjacent areas.
Carex atherodes - wetland species tolerant of periodic drought
Carex praegracilis - can rapidly colonize slightly saline substrates
Revegetation methods: seed or rhizomes from nearby native communities.