Great Lakes Marsh Plant List

Submergent Plants

• coontail (Ceratophyllum demersum)
• common waterweed (Elodea canadensis)
• slender naiad (Najas flexilis)
• pondweeds (Potamogeton obtusifolius, P. pectinatus, P. richardsonii, P. robbinsii, P. zosteriformis, Stuckenia pectinata, and others)
• bladderworts (Utricularia intermedia, U. vulgaris, and others)
• water-celery (Vallisneria americana)

Rooted Floating-leaved Plants

• water-shield (Brasenia schreberi)
• variegated yellow pond-lilies (Nuphar advena and N. variegata)
• sweet-scented waterlily (Nymphaea odorata)
• pondweeds (Potamogeton gramineus, P. illinoensis, P. natans, and others)

Non-rooted Floating Plants

• small duckweed (Lemna minor)
• star duckweed (Lemna trisulca)
• red duckweed (Lemna turionifera)
• great duckweed (Spirodela polyrhiza)
• water meal (Wolffia spp.)

Emergent Plants

Graminoids

• ticklegrasses (Agrostis hyemalis and A. scabra)
• blue-joint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
• narrow-leaved reedgrass (Calamagrostis stricta)
• sedges (Carex aquatilis, C. bebbii, C. comosa, C. hystericina, C. lacustris, C. lasiocarpa, C. stricta, C. viridula, and others)
• twig-rush (Cladium mariscoides)
• tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
• Lindheimer’s panic grass (Dichanthelium lindheimeri)
• spike-rushes (Eleocharis acicularis, E. elliptica, E. palustris, E. quinqueflora, and others)
• rushes (Juncus balticus, J. brevicaudatus, J. canadensis, and others)
• cut grass (Leersia oryzoides)
• common reed (Phragmites australis subsp. americanus)
• beak-rush (Rhynchospora capillacea)
• hardstem bulrush (Schoenoplectus acutus)
• threesquare (Schoenoplectus pungens)
• softstem bulrush (Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani)
• bulrushes (Scirpus atrovirens and S. cyperinus)

Forbs

• Canada anemone (Anemone canadensis)
• swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
• hedge bindweed (Calystegia sepium)
• marsh bellflower (Campanula aparinoides)
• water hemlock (Cicuta bulbifera)
• limestone calamint (Clinopodium arkansanum)
• marsh cinquefoil (Comarum palustre)
• common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum)
• grass-leaved goldenrod (Euthamia graminifolia)
• joe-pye-weed (Eutrochium maculatum)
• small bedstraw (Galium trifidum)
• small fringed gentian (Gentianopsis virgata)
• swamp mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)
• jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
• wild blue flag (Iris versicolor)
• marsh pea (Lathyrus palustris)
• Kalm’s lobelia (Lobelia kalmii)
• common water horehound (Lycopus americanus)
• balsam ragwort (Packera paupercula)
• grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia glauca)
• water smartweed (Persicaria amphibia)
• pickerel-weed (Pontederia cordata)
• silverweed (Potentilla anserina)
• bird’s-eye primrose (Primula mistassinica)
• common arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia)
• common skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata)
• Ohio goldenrod (Solidago ohioensis)
• bur-reeds (Sparganium spp.)
• nodding ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes cernua)
• panicled aster (Symphyotrichum lanceolatum)
• bog arrow-grasses (Triglochin maritima and T. palustris)
• broad-leaved cat-tail (Typha latifolia)
• horned bladderwort (Utricularia cornuta)
• blue vervain (Verbena hastata)

Ferns

• marsh fern (Thelypteris palustris)

Fern Allies

• common horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
• water horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile)

Shrubs

• tag alder (Alnus incana)
• silky dogwood (Cornus amomum)
• red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea)
• shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa)
• Kalm’s St. John’s-wort (Hypericum kalmianum)
• sweet gale (Myrica gale)
• willows (Salix candida, S. exigua, S. petiolaris, and others)
• meadowsweet (Spiraea alba)

Trees

• paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
• green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
• balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera)
• quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)