Pine Barrens Plant List

Graminoids

• big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
• wavy hair grass (Avenella flexuosa)
• prairie brome (Bromus kalmii)
• Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
• slender sand sedge (Cyperus lupulinus)
• poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)
• panic grasses (Dichanthelium spp.)
• slender wheat grass (Elymus trachycaulus)
• purple love grass (Eragrostis spectabilis)
• rough fescue (Festuca altaica)
• June grass (Koeleria macrantha)
• rough-leaved rice grass (Oryzopsis asperifolia)
• rice grass (Piptatherum pungens)
• little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)

Forbs

• pale agoseris (Agoseris glauca)
• pussytoes (Antennaria howellii and A. parlinii)
• wormwood (Artemisia campestris)
• harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
• Hill’s thistle (Cirsium hillii)
• common rockrose (Crocanthemum canadense)
• wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
• western sunflower (Helianthus occidentalis)
• hawkweeds (Hieracium kalmii and H. venosum)
• long-leaved bluets (Houstonia longifolia)
• rough blazing-star (Liatris aspera)
• cylindrical blazing-star (Liatris cylindracea)
• northern blazing-star (Liatris scariosa)
• hoary puccoon (Lithospermum canescens)
• hairy puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense)
• cow-wheat (Melampyrum lineare)
• horse mint (Monarda punctata)
• blue toadflax (Nuttallanthus canadensis)
• racemed milkwort (Polygala polygama)
• jointweed (Polygonella articulata)
• goldenrods (Solidago hispida, S. nemoralis, and S. ptarmicoides)
• slender ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes lacera)
• smooth aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)
• birdfoot violet (Viola pedata)

Ferns

• bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)

Lichens

• reindeer lichens (Cladina spp.)

Shrubs

• serviceberries (Amelanchier spicata and others)
• bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
• sweetfern (Comptonia peregrina)
• trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens)
• sand cherry (Prunus pumila)
• Alleghany plum (Prunus umbellata)
• northern dewberry (Rubus flagellaris)
• prairie willow (Salix humilis)
• low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)
• Canada blueberry (Vaccinium myrtilloides)

Trees

• jack pine (Pinus banksiana)
• red pine (Pinus resinosa)
• white pine (Pinus strobus)
• aspens (Populus grandidentata and P. tremuloides)
• black cherry (Prunus serotina)
• northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)