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)
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: November 21, 2024).