Volcanic Bedrock Glade Plant List

Graminoids

  • wavy hair grass (Avenella flexuosa)
  • poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)
  • tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
  • rough-leaved rice grass (Oryzopsis asperifolia)

Forbs

  • yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
  • small pussytoes (Antennaria howellii)
  • wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
  • low bindweed (Calystegia spithamea)
  • harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
  • pink corydalis (Capnoides sempervirens)
  • small blue-eyed Mary (Collinsia parviflora)
  • bastard-toadflax (Comandra umbellata)
  • prairie cinquefoil (Drymocallis arguta)
  • large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
  • wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
  • geocaulon (Geocaulon lividum)
  • twinflower (Linnaea borealis)
  • Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
  • cow-wheat (Melampyrum lineare)
  • early saxifrage (Micranthes virginiensis)
  • rough-leaved rice grass (Oryzopsis asperifolia)
  • balsam ragwort (Packera paupercula)
  • bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
  • old-field goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis)

Ferns

  • male fern (Dryopteris filix-mas)
  • bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)

Lichens

  • reindeer lichens (Cladina spp.)
  • usnea lichens (Usnea spp.)

Mosses

  • haircap mosses (Polytrichum spp.)

Woody Vines

  • red honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica)
  • poison-ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
  • riverbank grape (Vitis riparia)

Shrubs

  • serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.)
  • bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
  • pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata)
  • bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
  • trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens)
  • wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
  • common juniper (Juniperus communis)
  • creeping juniper (Juniperus horizontalis)
  • wild rose (Rosa acicularis)
  • thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
  • soapberry (Shepherdia canadensis)
  • low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)
  • tall bilberry (Vaccinium membranaceum)
  • Canada blueberry (Vaccinium myrtilloides)

Trees

  • balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
  • juneberry (Amelanchier arborea)
  • paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
  • white spruce (Picea glauca)
  • jack pine (Pinus banksiana)
  • red pine (Pinus resinosa)
  • white pine (Pinus strobus)
  • quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)
  • red oak (Quercus rubra)
  • mountain-ash (Sorbus decora)
  • 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, M.E. Anderson, M.R. Parr, T.J. Bassett, and K.M. Korroch. 2025. Michigan Natural Community Classification [web application]. Michigan Natural Features Inventory, Michigan State University Extension, Lansing, MI. Available https://mnfi.anr.msu.edu/communities/classification. (Accessed: April 18, 2026).