Mesic Sand Prairie Plant List

Graminoids

• big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
• blue-joint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
• Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
• poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)
• rushes (Juncus canadensis and J. tenuis)
• little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
• Indian grass (Sorghastrum nutans)
• prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)

Forbs

• colic root (Aletris farinosa)
• thimbleweed (Anemone cylindrica)
• spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)
• tall green milkweed (Asclepias hirtella)
• butterfly-weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
• white false indigo (Baptisia lactea)
• wild indigo (Baptisia tinctoria)
• Indian paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea)
• bastard-toadflax (Comandra umbellata)
• tall coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris)
• common rockrose (Crocanthemum canadense)
• showy tick-trefoil (Desmodium canadense)
• flat-topped white aster (Doellingeria umbellata)
• rattlesnake-master (Eryngium yuccifolium)
• flowering spurge (Euphorbia corollata)
• northern bedstraw (Galium boreale)
• bottle gentian (Gentiana andrewsii)
• tall sunflower (Helianthus giganteus)
• alum root (Heuchera americana)
• false dandelions (Krigia biflora and K. virginica)
• round-headed bush-clover (Lespedeza capitata)
• blazing-stars (Liatris aspera, L. scariosa, and L. spicata)
• pale spiked lobelia (Lobelia spicata)
• wild lupine (Lupinus perennis)
• wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
• balsam ragwort (Packera paupercula)
• prairie phlox (Phlox pilosa)
• field milkwort (Polygala sanguinea)
• old-field cinquefoil (Potentilla simplex)
• common mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum)
• black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
• stiff goldenrod (Solidago rigida)
• smooth aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)
• prairie heart-leaved aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense)
• Missouri ironweed (Vernonia missurica)
• arrow-leaved violet (Viola sagittata)

Fern Allies

• smooth scouring rush (Equisetum laevigatum)

Shrubs

• American hazelnut (Corylus americana)
• winged sumac (Rhus copallina)
• pasture rose (Rosa carolina)
• northern dewberry (Rubus flagellaris)
• prairie willow (Salix humilis)
• meadowsweet (Spiraea alba)