Northern Bald Plant List
Graminoids
- Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
- poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)
- tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
- rice grass (Piptatherum pungens)
Forbs
- yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- small-leaved pussytoes (Antennaria howellii)
- wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
- wormwood (Artemisia campestris)
- harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
- small blue-eyed Mary (Collinsia parviflora)
- rock whitlow-grass (Draba arabisans)
- prairie cinquefoil (Drymocallis arguta)
- large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
- wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
- false spikenard (Maianthemum racemosum)
- early saxifrage (Micranthes virginiensis)
- balsam ragwort (Packera paupercula)
- western smartweed (Polygonum douglasii)
- clammy cudweed (Pseudognaphalium macounii)
- three-toothed cinquefoil (Sibbaldiopsis tridentata)
- sand violet (Viola adunca)
Ferns
- maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes)
- male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)
- common polypody (Polypodium virginianum)
- Braun’s holly-fern (Polystichum braunii)
- northern holly-fern (Polystichum lonchitis)
- rusty woodsia (Woodsia ilvensis)
Fern Allies
- ground-cedar (Diphasiastrum tristachyum)
- sand club moss (Selaginella rupestris)
Shrubs
- serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.)
- bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
- New Jersey tea (Ceanothus herbaceus)
- common juniper (Juniperus communis)
- creeping juniper (Juniperus horizontalis)
- choke cherry (Prunus virginiana)
- staghorn sumac (Rhus typhina)
- wild rose (Rosa acicularis)
- soapberry (Shepherdia canadensis)
- snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
- low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)
Trees
- balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
- red maple (Acer rubrum)
- mountain maple (Acer spicatum)
- juneberry (Amelanchier arborea)
- paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
- white spruce (Picea glauca)
- red pine (Pinus resinosa)
- white pine (Pinus strobus)
- big-toothed aspen (Populus grandidentata)
- red oak (Quercus rubra)
- northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis)
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 12, 2024).