Granite Bedrock Lakeshore Plant List
Graminoids
- ticklegrass (Agrostis scabra)
- wavy hair grass (Avenella flexuosa)
- blue-joint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
- poverty grass (Danthonia spicata)
- tufted hair grass (Deschampsia cespitosa)
- wool-grass (Scirpus cyperinus)
Forbs
- yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
- harebell (Campanula rotundifolia)
- fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium)
- grass-leaved goldenrod (Euthamia graminifolia)
- wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
- Kalm’s lobelia (Lobelia kalmii)
- cow-wheat (Melampyrum lineare)
- three-toothed cinquefoil (Sibbaldiopsis tridentata)
- old-field goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis)
Ferns
- fragile fern (Cystopteris fragilis)
- common polypody (Polypodium virginianum)
- rusty woodsia (Woodsia ilvensis)
Shrubs
- mountain alder (Alnus viridis)
- bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi)
- bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
- common juniper (Juniperus communis)
- ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius)
- wild rose (Rosa acicularis)
- low sweet blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium)
- Canada blueberry (Vaccinium myrtilloides)
Trees
- paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
- white spruce (Picea glauca)
- jack pine (Pinus banksiana)
- red pine (Pinus resinosa)
- white pine (Pinus strobus)
- quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)
- mountain-ash (Sorbus decora)
- 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: November 21, 2024).