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)
Citation
Cohen, J.G., M.A. Kost, B.S. Slaughter, D.A. Albert, J.M. Lincoln, A.P. Kortenhoven, C.M. Wilton, H.D. Enander, and K.M. Korroch. 2020. Michigan Natural Community Classification [web application]. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Michigan State University Extension, Lansing, Michigan. Available https://mnfi.anr.msu.edu/communities/classification. (Accessed: October 15, 2024).