Open Dunes Plant List

Graminoids

• marram grass (Ammophila breviligulata)
• sand reed grass (Calamovilfa longifolia)
• rough sand sedge (Cyperus schweinitzii)
• wheat grasses (Elymus lanceolatus and E. trachycaulus)
• Rocky Mountain fescue (Festuca saximontana)
• June grass (Koeleria macrantha)
• switch grass (Panicum virgatum)
• little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)

Forbs

• red anemone (Anemone multifida)
• sand cress (Arabidopsis lyrata)
• wormwood (Artemisia campestris)
• common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
• sea rocket (Cakile edentula)
• harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
• Pitcher’s thistle (Cirsium pitcheri )
• sand coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)
• bugseeds (Corispermum americanum and C. pallasii)
• flowering spurge (Euphorbia corollata)
• seaside spurge (Euphorbia polygonifolia)
• beach pea (Lathyrus japonicus)
• plains puccoon (Lithospermum caroliniense)
• starry false Solomon-seal (Maianthemum stellatum)
• horse mint (Monarda punctata)
• jointweed (Polygonella articulata)
• silverweed (Potentilla anserina)
• Gillman’s goldenrod (Solidago simplex)
• Lake Huron tansy (Tanacetum bipinnatum)

Woody Vines

• American bittersweet (Celastrus scandens)
• poison-ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
• riverbank grape (Vitis riparia)

Shrubs

• bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
• bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
• round-leaved dogwood (Cornus rugosa)
• red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea)
• shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa)
• beach heath (Hudsonia tomentosa)
• common juniper (Juniperus communis)
• creeping juniper (Juniperus horizontalis)
• sand cherry (Prunus pumila)
• hop tree (Ptelea trifoliata)
• wild roses (Rosa acicularis and R. blanda)
• pasture rose (Rosa carolina)
• willows (Salix cordata, S. exigua, and S. myricoides)
• poison-ivy (Toxicodendron rydbergii)
• blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium and V. myrtilloides)

Trees

• balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
• paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
• white ash (Fraxinus americana)
• white spruce (Picea glauca)
• pines (Pinus banksiana, P. resinosa, and P. strobus)
• balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera)
• cottonwood (Populus deltoides)
• big-toothed aspen (Populus grandidentata)
• quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)
• red oak (Quercus rubra)
• black oak (Quercus velutina)
• sassafras (Sassafras albidum)
• northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis)
• basswood (Tilia americana)