Southern Wet Meadow Plant List

Graminoids

• fringed brome (Bromus ciliatus)
• blue-joint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
• sedges (Carex aquatilis, C. bebbii, C. comosa, C. hystericina, C. lacustris, C. lasiocarpa, C. pellita, C. prairea, C. utriculata, C. sartwellii, C. stipata, C. stricta, C. vulpinoidea, and others)
• bald spike-rush (Eleocharis erythropoda)
• marsh wild-timothy (Muhlenbergia glomerata)
• leafy satin grass (Muhlenbergia mexicana)
• fowl meadow grass (Poa palustris)

Forbs

• swamp agrimony (Agrimonia parviflora)
• Canada anemone (Anemone canadensis)
• thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana)
• angelica (Angelica atropurpurea)
• swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
• hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium)
• marsh bellflower (Campanula aparinoides)
• water hemlock (Cicuta bulbifera)
• swamp thistle (Cirsium muticum)
• flat-topped white aster (Doellingeria umbellata)
• common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum)
• joe-pye-weed (Eutrochium maculatum)
• rough bedstraw (Galium asprellum)
• bog bedstraw (Galium labradoricum)
• small bedstraw (Galium trifidum)
• jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
• wild blue flag (Iris versicolor)
• marsh pea (Lathyrus palustris)
• Michigan lily (Lilium michiganense)
• great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica)
• northern bugle weed (Lycopus uniflorus)
• tufted loosestrife (Lysimachia thyrsiflora)
• water smartweed (Persicaria amphibia)
• clearweed (Pilea pumila)
• common mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum)
• great water dock (Rumex orbiculatus)
• common arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia)
• common skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata)
• Canada goldenrod (Solidago canadensis)
• late goldenrod (Solidago gigantea)
• swamp goldenrod (Solidago patula)
• rough goldenrod (Solidago rugosa)
• smooth swamp aster (Symphyotrichum firmum)
• panicled aster (Symphyotrichum lanceolatum)
• side-flowering aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)
• swamp aster (Symphyotrichum puniceum)
• purple meadow-rue (Thalictrum dasycarpum)
• marsh St. John’s-wort (Triadenum fraseri)
• broad-leaved cat-tail (Typha latifolia)
• blue vervain (Verbena hastata)
• Missouri ironweed (Vernonia missurica)

Ferns

• sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
• marsh fern (Thelypteris palustris)

Shrubs

• silky dogwood (Cornus amomum)
• gray  dogwood (Cornus foemina )
• red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea)
• ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)
• swamp gooseberry (Ribes hirtellum)
• swamp rose (Rosa palustris)
• willows (Salix spp.)
• meadowsweet (Spiraea alba)
• poison sumac (Toxicodendron vernix)
• nannyberry (Viburnum lentago)

Trees

• red maple (Acer rubrum)
• black ash (Fraxinus nigra)
• green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
• tamarack (Larix laricina)
• American elm (Ulmus americana)