Limestone Bedrock Lakeshore Plant List

Graminoids

• ticklegrass (Agrostis scabra)
• wavy hair grass (Avenella flexuosa)
• narrow-leaved reedgrass (Calamagrostis stricta)
• beauty sedge (Carex concinna)
• Crawe’s sedge (Carex crawei)
• ebony sedge (Carex eburnea)
• sedge (Carex garberi)
• Richardson’s sedge (Carex richardsonii)
• bulrush sedge (Carex scirpoidea)
• little green sedge (Carex viridula)
• poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)
• tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
• Lindheimer panic grass (Dichanthelium lindheimeri)
• golden-seeded spike-rush (Eleocharis elliptica)
• slender wheat grass (Elymus trachycaulus)
• Baltic rush (Juncus balticus)
• beak-rush (Rhynchospora capillacea)

Forbs

• purple false foxglove (Agalinis purpurea)
• white camas (Anticlea elegans)
• wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
• harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
• Indian paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea)
• limestone calamint (Clinopodium arkansanum)
• large yellow lady-slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens)
• flat-topped white aster (Doellingeria umbellata)
• large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
• grass-leaved goldenrod (Euthamia graminifolia)
• wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
• dwarf lake iris (Iris lacustris )
• Kalm’s lobelia (Lobelia kalmii)
• common water horehound (Lycopus americanus)
• balsam ragwort (Packera paupercula)
• silverweed (Potentilla anserina)
• bird’s-eye primrose (Primula mistassinica)
• Houghton’s goldenrod (Solidago houghtonii )
• Ohio goldenrod (Solidago ohioensis)
• nodding ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes cernua)
• smooth aster (Symphyotrichum laeve)
• false asphodel (Triantha glutinosa)
• northern bog violet (Viola nephrophylla)

Shrubs

• bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
• shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa)
• Kalm’s St. John’s-wort (Hypericum kalmianum)
• common juniper (Juniperus communis)
• ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)
• soapberry (Shepherdia canadensis)

Trees

• balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
• paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
• white spruce (Picea glauca)
• balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera)
• northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis)