Dry Southern Forest Plant List

Graminoids

• wavy hair grass (Avenella flexuosa)
• long-awned wood grass (Brachyelytrum erectum)
• sedges (Carex cephalophora, C. muehlenbergii, C. pensylvanica, and others)
• poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)

Forbs

• hog-peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata)
• false foxgloves (Aureolaria spp.)
• large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
• wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)
• beggars lice (Hackelia virginiana)
• woodland sunflower (Helianthus divaricatus)
• pointed-leaf tick-trefoil (Hylodesmum glutinosum)
• naked-flower tick-trefoil (Hylodesmum nudiflorum)
• pale vetchling (Lathyrus ochroleucus)
• four-leaved loosestrife (Lysimachia quadrifolia)
• Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
• false spikenard (Maianthemum racemosum)
• black snakeroots (Sanicula spp.)
• bluestem goldenrod (Solidago caesia)
• yellow-pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)
• pale vetch (Vicia caroliniana)

Woody Vines

• summer grape (Vitis aestivalis)

Shrubs

• serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.)
• New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus)
• spotted wintergreen (Chimaphila maculata)
• pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata)
• gray dogwood (Cornus foemina)
• American hazelnut (Corylus americana)
• hawthorn (Crataegus spp.)
• wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
• huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata)
• witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
• sand cherry (Prunus pumila)
• choke cherry (Prunus virginiana)
• common blackberry (Rubus allegheniensis)
• northern dewberry (Rubus flagellaris)
• low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)
• Canada blueberry (Vaccinium myrtilloides)
• hillside blueberry (Vaccinium pallidum)

Trees

• red maple (Acer rubrum)
• serviceberries (Amelanchier arborea, A. interior, and A. laevis)
• pignut hickory (Carya glabra)
• flowering dogwood (Cornus florida)
• hawthorns (Crataegus spp.)
• black cherry (Prunus serotina)
• white oak (Quercus alba)
• northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)
• black oak (Quercus velutina)
• sassafras (Sassafras albidum)