Dry-mesic Northern Forest Plant List

Graminoids

• wavy hair grass (Avenella flexuosa)
• long-awned wood grass (Brachyelytrum aristosum)
• Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
• poverty oats (Danthonia spicata)
• rice grass (Oryzopsis asperifolia)

Forbs

• wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
• wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
• poke milkweed (Asclepias exaltata)
• blue-bead lily (Clintonia borealis)
• goldthread (Coptis trifolia)
• coral-root orchids (Corallorhiza maculata and C. trifida)
• pink lady-slipper (Cypripedium acaule)
• large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
• rattlesnake plantains (Goodyera oblongifolia and G. pubescens)
• pinesap (Hypopitys monotropa)
• twinflower (Linnaea borealis)
• Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
• partridge berry (Mitchella repens)
• Indian-pipe (Monotropa uniflora)
• gay-wings (Polygala paucifolia)
• pine-drops (Pterospora andromedea)
• large-leaved shinleaf (Pyrola elliptica)
• starflower (Trientalis borealis)

Ferns

• wood ferns (Dryopteris spp.)
• bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)

Fern Allies

• ground-pine (Dendrolycopodium obscurum)

Shrubs

• serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.)
• pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata)
• bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
• beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta)
• bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
• trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens)
• wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
• huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata)
• witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
• Canadian fly honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis)
• choke cherry (Prunus virginiana)
• blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium and V. myrtilloides)

Trees

• balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
• striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
• red maple (Acer rubrum)
• serviceberries (Amelanchier arborea and A. laevis)
• paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
• white spruce (Picea glauca)
• black spruce (Picea mariana)
• 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)
• black oak (Quercus velutina)
• hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)