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)
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: December 21, 2024).