Dry Northern Forest Plant List
Graminoids
- wavy hair grass (Avenella flexuosa)
- long-awned wood grass (Brachyelytrum aristosum)
- sedges (Carex foenea, C. pensylvanica, C. siccata, and others)
- poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)
- rough-leaved rice grass (Oryzopsis asperifolia)
- rice grass (Piptatherum pungens)
Forbs
- spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)
- wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
- bluebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
- fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)
- pink lady-slipper (Cypripedium acaule)
- large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
- rattlesnake weed (Hieracium venosum)
- twinflower (Linnaea borealis)
- Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
- cow-wheat (Melampyrum lineare)
- partridge berry (Mitchella repens)
- hairy goldenrod (Solidago hispida)
- starflower (Trientalis borealis)
Ferns
- bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
Lichens
- reindeer lichens (Cladina mitis and C. rangiferina)
Mosses
- fork mosses (Dicranum spp.)
- Hypnum mosses (Hypnum spp.)
- big red stem moss (Pleurozium schreberi)
Shrubs
- running serviceberry (Amelanchier spicata)
- bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
- pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata)
- sweetfern (Comptonia peregrina)
- bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
- bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
- trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens)
- wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
- huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata)
- sand cherry (Prunus pumila)
- northern dewberry (Rubus flagellaris)
- prairie willow (Salix humilis)
- 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)
- black spruce (Picea mariana)
- jack pine (Pinus banksiana)
- red pine (Pinus resinosa)
- white pine (Pinus strobus)
- big-toothed aspen (Populus grandidentata)
- trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides)
- black cherry (Prunus serotina)
- northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)
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).