Boreal Forest Plant List
Graminoids
- sedges (Carex deweyana and C. eburnea)
- blue wild-rye (Elymus glaucus)
- false melic (Schizachne purpurascens)
Forbs
- red baneberry (Actaea rubra)
- trail-plant (Adenocaulon bicolor)
- wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
- calypso (Calypso bulbosa)
- bluebead lily (Clintonia borealis)
- goldthread (Coptis trifolia)
- ram’s head lady-slipper (Cypripedium arietinum)
- large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
- fragrant bedstraw (Galium triflorum)
- Menzie’s rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera oblongifolia)
- creeping rattlesnake plantain (Goodyera repens)
- twinflower (Linnaea borealis)
- Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
- starry false Solomon-seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
- false mayflower (Maianthemum trifolium)
- partridge berry (Mitchella repens)
- naked miterwort (Mitella nuda)
- one-flowered pyrola (Moneses uniflora)
- broad-leaved twayblade (Neottia convallarioides)
- one-sided pyrola (Orthilia secunda)
- northern wood-sorrel (Oxalis acetosella)
- sweet-coltsfoot (Petasites frigidus)
- gay-wings (Polygala paucifolia)
- green shinleaf (Pyrola chlorantha)
- lesser pyrola (Pyrola minor)
- twisted-stalks (Streptopus spp.)
- starflower (Trientalis borealis)
Ferns
- wood ferns (Dryopteris spp.)
- oak fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris)
- bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
Fern Allies
- ground-pines (Dendrolycopodium dendroideum and D. obscurum)
- shining clubmoss (Huperzia lucidula)
- running ground-pine (Lycopodium clavatum)
- stiff clubmoss (Spinulum annotinum)
Lichens
- usnea lichens (Usnea spp.)
Mosses
- dicranum moss (Dicranum montanum)
- stair step moss (Hylocomium splendens)
- largetooth calcareous moss (Mnium spinulosum)
- big red stem moss (Pleurozium schreberi)
- oncophorus moss (Oncophorus wahlenbergii)
- ostrich-plume moss (Ptilium crista-castrensis)
- shaggy moss (Rhytidiadelphus triquetrus)
Shrubs
- tag alder (Alnus incana)
- mountain alder (Alnus viridis)
- bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
- bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
- round-leaved dogwood (Cornus rugosa)
- bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
- wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
- common juniper (Juniperus communis)
- Canadian fly honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis)
- prickly gooseberry (Ribes cynosbati)
- skunk currant (Ribes glandulosum)
- thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
- dwarf raspberry (Rubus pubescens)
- soapberry (Shepherdia canadensis)
- snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
- Canada yew (Taxus canadensis)
- tall bilberry (Vaccinium membranaceum)
- Canada blueberry (Vaccinium myrtilloides)
- oval-leaved bilberry (Vaccinium ovalifolium)
Trees
- balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
- striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)
- red maple (Acer rubrum)
- mountain maple (Acer spicatum)
- paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
- white spruce (Picea glauca)
- black spruce (Picea mariana)
- jack pine (Pinus banksiana)
- red pine (Pinus resinosa)
- white pine (Pinus strobus)
- balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera)
- quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)
- American mountain-ash (Sorbus americana)
- mountain-ash (Sorbus decora)
- northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis)
- 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: October 8, 2024).