Northern Fen Plant List

Graminoids

• blue-joint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
• sedges (Carex aquatilis, C. buxbaumii, C. chordorrhiza, C. exilis, C. flava, C. interior, C. lasiocarpa, C. leptalea, C. limosa, C. livida, C. sterilis, C. stricta, and others)
• twig-rush (Cladium mariscoides)
• tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
• panic grass (Dichanthelium lindheimeri)
• three-way sedge (Dulichium arundinaceum)
• spike-rushes (Eleocharis elliptica, E. rostellata, and others)
• cotton-grasses (Eriophorum angustifolium and E. viridi-carinatum)
• rush (Juncus brachycephalus)
• marsh wild-timothy (Muhlenbergia glomerata)
• common reed (Phragmites australis subsp. americanus)
• white beak-rush (Rhynchospora alba)
• beak-rush (Rhynchospora capillacea)
• alpine bulrush (Trichophorum alpinum)
• tufted bulrush (Trichophorum cespitosum)

Forbs

• white camas (Anticlea elegans)
• dragon’s mouth (Arethusa bulbosa)
• flat-topped white aster (Doellingeria umbellata)
• round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia)
• small fringed gentian (Gentianopsis virgata)
• wild blue flag (Iris versicolor)
• Kalm’s lobelia (Lobelia kalmii)
• bog buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata)
• balsam ragwort (Packera paupercula)
• grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia glauca)
• tall white bog orchid (Platanthera dilatata)
• silverweed (Potentilla anserina)
• bird’s-eye primrose (Primula mistassinica)
• round-leaved pyrola (Pyrola americana)
• pitcher-plant (Sarracenia purpurea)
• Ohio goldenrod (Solidago ohioensis)
• bog goldenrod (Solidago uliginosa)
• nodding ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes cernua)
• rush aster (Symphyotrichum boreale)
• false asphodel (Triantha glutinosa)
• marsh St. John’s-wort (Triadenum fraseri)
• common bog arrow-grass (Triglochin maritima)

Mosses

• brown mosses (Family Amblystegiaceae)
• sphagnum mosses (Sphagnum spp.)

Shrubs

• tag alder (Alnus incana)
• bog birch (Betula pumila)
• shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa)
• Kalm’s St. John’s-wort (Hypericum kalmianum)
• creeping juniper (Juniperus horizontalis)
• sweet gale (Myrica gale)
• alder-leaved buckthorn (Rhamnus alnifolia)
• sage willow (Salix candida)
• bog willow (Salix pedicellaris)
• meadowsweet (Spiraea alba)

Trees

• tamarack (Larix laricina)
• black spruce (Picea mariana)
• northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis)