Granite Cliff Plant List
Graminoids
- poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)
- tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
Forbs
- small-leaved pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta)
- wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
- wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
- bluebead lily (Clintonia borealis)
- rock whitlow-grass (Draba arabisans)
- large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
- wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
- Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
- downy Solomon seal (Polygonatum pubescens)
- three-toothed cinquefoil (Sibbaldiopsis tridentata)
- twisted-stalks (Streptopus spp.)
Ferns
- maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes)
- fragrant woodfern (Dryopteris fragrans)
- marginal woodfern (Dryopteris marginalis)
- oak fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris)
- smooth cliff-brake (Pellaea glabella)
- common polypody (Polypodium virginianum)
- bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
- rusty woodsia (Woodsia ilvensis)
Woody Vines
- red honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica)
- poison-ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
Shrubs
- serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.)
- bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
- bunchberry (Cornus canadensis)
- bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
- wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
- common juniper (Juniperus communis)
- Canadian fly honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis)
- choke cherry (Prunus virginiana)
- thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
- dwarf raspberry (Rubus pubescens)
- wild red raspberry (Rubus strigosus)
- low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)
Trees
- balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
- sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
- mountain maple (Acer spicatum)
- serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.)
- paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
- white spruce (Picea glauca)
- jack pine (Pinus banksiana)
- red pine (Pinus resinosa)
- white pine (Pinus strobus)
- big-toothed aspen (Populus grandidentata)
- quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)
- red oak (Quercus rubra)
- northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis)
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).