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, 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: October 8, 2024).