Wooded Dune and Swale Complex Plant List

Dune Ridges

Graminoids

• wavy hair grass (Avenella flexuosa)
• Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
• poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)

Forbs

• wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
• goldthread (Coptis trifolia)
• large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
• twinflower (Linnaea borealis)
• Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
• cow-wheat (Melampyrum lineare)
• partridge berry (Mitchella repens)
• gay-wings (Polygala paucifolia)
• starflower (Trientalis borealis)

Ferns

• bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)

Fern Allies

• ground-pine (Dendrolycopodium obscurum)
• running ground-pine (Lycopodium clavatum)
• stiff clubmoss (Spinulum annotinum)

Shrubs

• bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
• bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
• wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
• huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata)
• common juniper (Juniperus communis)
• creeping juniper (Juniperus horizontalis)
• soapberry (Shepherdia canadensis)
• low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)
• Canada blueberry (Vaccinium myrtilloides)

Trees

• balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
• red maple (Acer rubrum)
• paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
• white spruce (Picea glauca)
• jack pine (Pinus banksiana)
• red pine (Pinus resinosa)
• white pine (Pinus strobus)
• big-toothed aspen (Populus grandidentata)
• quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)
• white oak (Quercus alba)
• red oak (Quercus rubra)
• hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)

Swales

Graminoids

• blue-joint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
• sedges  (Carex aquatilis, C. disperma, C. intumescens, C. lasiocarpa, C. leptalea, C. oligosperma, C. stricta, C. trisperma, and others)
• twig-rush (Cladium mariscoides)
• tawny cotton-grass (Eriophorum virginicum)
• fowl manna grass (Glyceria striata)
• rushes (Juncus spp.)
• common reed (Phragmites australis subsp. americanus)
• hardstem bulrush (Schoenoplectus acutus)
• threesquare (Schoenoplectus pungens)
• wool-grass (Scirpus cyperinus)

Forbs

• marsh-marigold (Caltha palustris)
• marsh cinquefoil (Comarum palustre)
• Kalm’s lobelia (Lobelia kalmii)
• swamp candles (Lysimachia terrestris)
• grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia glauca)
• false asphodel (Triantha glutinosa)

Ferns

• oak fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris)
• sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
• cinnamon fern (Osmunda cinnamomea)
• royal fern (Osmunda regalis)
• marsh fern (Thelypteris palustris)

Fern Allies

• woodland horsetail (Equisetum sylvaticum)

Mosses

• sphagnum mosses (Sphagnum spp.)

Shrubs

• tag alder (Alnus incana)
• black chokeberry (Aronia prunifolia)
• bog birch (Betula pumila)
• dogwoods (Cornus spp.)
• leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata)
• shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa)
• sweet gale (Myrica gale)
• dwarf raspberry (Rubus pubescens)
• willows (Salix candida, S. pedicellaris, S. petiolaris, and others)
• cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon and V. oxycoccos)

Trees

• red maple (Acer rubrum)
• black ash (Fraxinus nigra)
• tamarack (Larix laricina)
• black spruce (Picea mariana)
• northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis)