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)