List of indigenous trees and shrubs of Lithuania


This is a list of the native woody plant species of Lithuania. The most common trees, shrubs, subshrubs, and liana species are marked with a star. The list contains 98 woody and semi-woody plant species.

Trees

Conifers

  1. European Larch
  2. Norway Spruce *
  3. Scots Pine *
  4. English Yew

Flowering plant

  1. Norway Maple
  2. Common Alder *
  3. Grey Alder *
  4. Silver Birch *
  5. Downy Birch *
  6. Common Hornbeam
  7. Common Beech
  8. Common Ash
  9. European Crab Apple
  10. Black Poplar
  11. Common Aspen *
  12. European Wild Pear
  13. Sessile Oak
  14. English Oak
  15. White Willow
  16. Crack Willow
  17. European Rowan
  18. Small-Leaved Lime
  19. Wych Elm
  20. European White Elm
  21. Field elm

Small trees or large shrubs

[Conifers]

  1. Common Juniper *

[Flowering plant]

  1. Common Hazel
  2. Crataegus laevigata
  3. Common Hawthorn
  4. Crataegus rhipidophylla
  5. Common Spindle
  6. Alder Buckthorn
  7. Sour Cherry
  8. Bird Cherry or Hackberry
  9. Blackthorn or Sloe
  10. Common Buckthorn
  11. Long-Leaved Violet Willow
  12. Goat Willow *
  13. Grey Willow
  14. Violet Willow
  15. Salix gmelinii
  16. Salix myrsinifolia
  17. Bay Willow *
  18. Almond Willow or Almond-Leaved Willow *
  19. Common Osier *

Shrubs

[Flowering plant]

  1. Jaundice Berry or European barberry, Ambarbaris
  2. Betula humilis
  3. Dwarf Birch
  4. Common Dogwood
  5. Crataegus rhipidophylla
  6. Mezereon
  7. Euonymus verrucosus
  8. Fly Honeysuckle or European Fly Honeysuckle, Dwarf Honeysuckle, Fly Woodbine
  9. Bog Myrtle or Sweet Gale
  10. Alpine Currant
  11. Blackcurrant *
  12. Nordic Redcurrant or Nordic Currant, Downy Currant
  13. Rosa caesia
  14. Dog Rose *
  15. Glaucous Dog Rose
  16. Cinnamon Rose
  17. Soft Downy Rose
  18. Sweet Briar or Eglantine Rose
  19. Eared Willow
  20. Downy Willow
  21. Swamp Willow
  22. Purple Willow
  23. Creeping Willow
  24. Rosemary-Leaved Willow
  25. Salix starkeana
  26. Guelder Rose or Water Elder

Small shrubs

[Flowering plant]

  1. Bog Rosemary
  2. Kinnikinnick
  3. Common Heather or Ling, Heather *
  4. Chamaedaphne calyculata
  5. Black Crowberry
  6. Cross-Leaved Heath
  7. Wild Rosemary or Marsh Labrador Tea
  8. Small Cranberry
  9. Common Bilberry or Blue Whortleberry *
  10. Bog cranberry or Swamp cranberry
  11. Bog Bilberry or Northern Bilberry
  12. Lingonberry or Cowberry *

Subshrubs

Flowering plant

  1. Arctic raspberry
  2. Rubus aureolus
  3. European Dewberry *
  4. Knoutberry
  5. Common Blackberry
  6. Red Raspberry or European Raspberry *
  7. Rubus nessensis
  8. Stone Bramble
  9. Rubus scissus
  10. Rubus wahlbergii
  11. Bittersweet
  12. Lemon Thyme
  13. Breckland Thyme
  14. Common Mistletoe or European Mistletoe

Liana

Flowering plant

  1. English Ivy or Common Ivy