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, 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 30, 2024).