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)