Hardest Working Streamside Plants

When you spot these and other native plants along Montana's waterways, you're seeing water protection in action. They stabilize banks, absorb pollutants and filter out chemicals 24 hours a day, seven days a week. To learn more, visit our resources page. Or contact a local nursery for information on planting native shrubs and trees.

Black cottonwood
Red osier dogwood
Sandbar willow
Serviceberry
Snowberry
Golden currant
Woods rose
Water birch
Mountain alder
Chokecherry
Rocky Mountain maple
Douglas hawthorn