Granite Bedrock Glade Plant List

Graminoids

  • wavy hair grass (Avenella flexuosa)
  • Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica)
  • poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)
  • tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
  • panic grasses (Dichanthelium columbianum, D. depauperatum, and D. linearifolium)
  • rice grass (Piptatherum pungens)

Forbs

  • yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
  • small pussytoes (Antennaria howellii)
  • spreading dogbane (Apocynum androsaemifolium)
  • wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
  • bristly sarsaparilla (Aralia hispida)
  • harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
  • pink corydalis (Capnoides sempervirens)
  • trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens)
  • large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
  • wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
  • cow-wheat (Melampyrum lineare)
  • big-leaf sandwort (Moehringia macrophylla)
  • jumpseed (Persicaria virginiana)
  • western smartweed (Polygonum douglasii)
  • three-toothed cinquefoil (Sibbaldiopsis tridentata)
  • slender ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes lacera)

Ferns

  • maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes)
  • spinulose woodfern (Dryopteris carthusiana)
  • marginal woodfern (Dryopteris marginalis)
  • common polypody (Polypodium virginianum)
  • bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
  • rusty woodsia (Woodsia ilvensis)

Lichens

  • reindeer lichens (Cladina spp.)

Mosses

  • haircap mosses (Polytrichum spp.)

Woody Vines

  • poison-ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
  • riverbank grape (Vitis riparia)

Shrubs

  • serviceberries (Amelanchier spp.)
  • bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
  • bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
  • wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens)
  • common juniper (Juniperus communis)
  • choke cherry (Prunus virginiana)
  • smooth sumac (Rhus glabra)
  • northern gooseberry (Ribes oxyacanthoides)
  • thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
  • wild red raspberry (Rubus strigosus)
  • low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)
  • Canada blueberry (Vaccinium myrtilloides)

Trees

  • balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
  • red maple (Acer rubrum)
  • paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
  • black hawthorn (Crataegus douglasii)
  • white spruce (Picea glauca)
  • jack pine (Pinus banksiana)
  • red pine (Pinus resinosa)
  • white pine (Pinus strobus)
  • big-toothed aspen (Populus grandidentata)
  • quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)
  • pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica)
  • red oak (Quercus rubra)
  • basswood (Tilia americana)

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: March 18, 2026).