Sandstone Lakeshore Cliff Plant List

Graminoids

• tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)

Forbs

• yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
• harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
• fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)
• grass-leaved goldenrod (Euthamia graminifolia)
• wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
• hairy hawkweed (Hieracium gronovii)
• jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
• marsh pea (Lathyrus palustris)
• Kalm’s lobelia (Lobelia kalmii)
• northern bugle weed (Lycopus uniflorus)
• bird’s-eye primrose (Primula mistassinica)
• three-toothed cinquefoil (Sibbaldiopsis tridentata)
• marsh violet (Viola cucullata)

Ferns

• lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina)
• fragile fern (Cystopteris fragilis)
• spinulose woodfern (Dryopteris carthusiana)
• northern beech fern (Phegopteris connectilis)

Fern Allies

• common horsetail (Equisetum arvense)

Shrubs

• mountain alder (Alnus viridis)
• serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.)
• red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea)
• bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
• ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)
• choke cherry (Prunus virginiana)
• dwarf raspberry (Rubus pubescens)
• wild red raspberry (Rubus strigosus)
• willows (Salix bebbiana, S. discolor, and others)

Trees

• balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
• sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
• paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
• American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
• white spruce (Picea glauca)
• white pine (Pinus strobus)
• balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera)
• quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)
• black cherry (Prunus serotina)
• northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis)
• hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)