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)
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).