PLANTING UNDER A BLACK WALNUT TREE
All parts of a black walnut tree contain juglone, including leaves and fruits. … It exudes a chemical called
juglone from its roots into the soil that is toxic to many other plants and kills them, thereby reducing competition for resources.
THESE ARE PLANTS THAT CAN SURVIVE LIVING AROUND A BLACK WALNUT TREE.
Vines | Perennials |
| Clematis | Dicentra – Bleeding Heart |
| Tartarian Honeysuckle | Doronicum – Leopard’s Bane |
| Virginia Creeper | Dryopteris cristata – Crested Wood Fern |
| Morning Glory | Galium – Sweet Woodruff |
| Geranium sanguineum | |
| Annuals | Grasses (most) |
| Calendula | Hemerocallis – Daylily |
| Begonia | Heuchera – Coralbells |
| Pansy | Hosta lancifolia |
| Zinnia | Hosta fortunei |
| Hosta marginata | |
Vegetables & Fruits | Hosta undulata |
| Black Raspberry | Siberian Iris |
| Squashes | Monarda – Beebalm |
| Melons | Oenotherea – Sundrop/Buttercups |
| Beans | Onoclea sensibilis – Sensitive Fern |
| Carrots | Osmunda cinnamomea – Cinnamon Fern |
| Corn | Peony |
| Phlox | |
Fruit Trees | Polemonium – Jacob’s Ladder |
| Peach | Polygonatum – Solomon’s Seal |
| Nectarine | Polyanthus – Primrose |
| Cherry | Pulmonaria – Lungwort |
| Plum | Sedum – Stonecrop |
| Pear | Stachys – Lamb’s Ear |
| Tradescantia – Spiderwort | |
Bulbs | Violets and Violas |
| Winter Aconite | |
| Snowdrops | |
| Hyacinth | |
| Grape Hyacinth |
*Information taken from Ohio State Extension Files