Alvar Plant List

Graminoids

• ticklegrass (Agrostis scabra)
• big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii)
• prairie brome (Bromus kalmii)
• blue-joint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
• Crawe’s sedge (Carex crawei)
• Richardson’s sedge (Carex richardsonii)
• bulrush sedge (Carex scirpoidea)
• poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)
• tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
• flattened spike-rush (Eleocharis compressa)
• golden-seeded spike-rush (Eleocharis elliptica)
• mat muhly (Muhlenbergia richardsonis)
• little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium)
• cordgrass (Spartina pectinata)
• prairie dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis)

Forbs

• small pussytoes (Antennaria howellii)
• wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
• hairy rock cress (Arabis pycnocarpa)
• harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
• Indian paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea)
• field chickweed (Cerastium arvense)
• Hill’s thistle (Cirsium hillii)
• limestone calamint (Clinopodium arkansanum)
• bastard-toadflax (Comandra umbellata)
• prairie cinquefoil (Drymocallis arguta)
• wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
• Carolina crane’s-bill (Geranium carolinianum)
• prairie-smoke (Geum triflorum)
• early saxifrage (Micranthes virginiensis)
• rock sandwort (Minuartia michauxii)
• wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)
• balsam ragwort (Packera paupercula)
• early buttercup (Ranunculus fascicularis)
• small skullcap (Scutellaria parvula)
• old-field goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis)
• upland white goldenrod (Solidago ptarmicoides)

Lichens

• reindeer lichens (Cladina mitis and C. rangiferina)
• felt lichen (Peltigera canina)

Mosses

• schistidium mosses (Schistidium spp.)
• tortella moss (Tortella spp.)

Shrubs

• serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.)
• shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa)
• common juniper (Juniperus communis)
• creeping juniper (Juniperus horizontalis)
• sand cherry (Prunus pumila)
• choke cherry (Prunus virginiana)
• fragrant sumac (Rhus aromatica)
• soapberry (Shepherdia canadensis)
• snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)

Trees

• paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
• white spruce (Picea glauca)
• white pine (Pinus strobus)
• quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)
• northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis)