Dry Sand Prairie Plant List
Graminoids
- big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
- fork-tipped three-awned grass (Aristida basiramea)
- three-awned grass (Aristida purpurascens)
- wavy hair grass (Avenella flexuosa)
- Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
- slender sand sedge (Cyperus lupulinus)
- poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)
- Scribner’s panic grass (Dichanthelium oligosanthes)
- fall witch grass (Digitaria cognata)
- purple love grass (Eragrostis spectabilis)
- rough fescue (Festuca altaica)
- June grass (Koeleria macrantha)
- rice grass (Piptatherum pungens)
- little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
- sand dropseed (Sporobolus cryptandrus)
Forbs
- pale agoseris (Agoseris glauca)
- smooth pussytoes (Antennaria parlinii)
- wormwood (Artemisia campestris)
- clasping milkweed (Asclepias amplexicaulis)
- butterfly-weed (Asclepias tuberosa)
- green milkweed (Asclepias viridiflora)
- harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
- Hill’s thistle (Cirsium hillii)
- common rockrose (Crocanthemum canadense)
- prairie cinquefoil (Drymocallis arguta)
- flowering spurge (Euphorbia corollata)
- wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
- prairie-smoke (Geum triflorum)
- western sunflower (Helianthus occidentalis)
- long-bearded hawkweed (Hieracium longipilum)
- long-leaved bluets (Houstonia longifolia)
- hairy bush-clover (Lespedeza hirta)
- rough blazing-star (Liatris aspera)
- cylindrical blazing-star (Liatris cylindracea)
- northern blazing-star (Liatris scariosa)
- hoary puccoon (Lithospermum canescens)
- hairy puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense)
- wild lupine (Lupinus perennis)
- wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
- horse mint (Monarda punctata)
- blue toadflax (Nuttallanthus canadensis)
- prickly-pear (Opuntia humifusa)
- hairy beard-tongue (Penstemon hirsutus)
- prairie phlox (Phlox pilosa)
- jointweed (Polygonella articulata)
- early buttercup (Ranunculus fascicularis)
- black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
- old-field goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis)
- prairie heart-leaved aster (Symphyotrichum oolentangiense)
- silky aster (Symphyotrichum sericeum)
- goats-rue (Tephrosia virginiana)
- birdfoot violet (Viola pedata)
Shrubs
- bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
- New Jersey tea (Ceanothus americanus)
- sweetfern (Comptonia peregrina)
- sand cherry (Prunus pumila)
- Alleghany plum (Prunus umbellata)
- northern dewberry (Rubus flagellaris)
- low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)
Trees
- jack pine (Pinus banksiana)
- red pine (Pinus resinosa)
- white pine (Pinus strobus)
- white oak (Quercus alba)
- northern pin oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis)
- black oak (Quercus velutina)
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).