Limestone Lakeshore Cliff Plant List

Graminoids

• beauty sedge (Carex concinna)
• ebony sedge (Carex eburnea)

Forbs

• yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
• wild columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
• wild sarsaparilla (Aralia nudicaulis)
• rock whitlow-grass (Draba arabisans)
• large-leaved aster (Eurybia macrophylla)
• grass-leaved goldenrod (Euthamia graminifolia)
• wild strawberry (Fragaria virginiana)
• herb Robert (Geranium robertianum)
• Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)

Ferns

• maidenhair spleenwort (Asplenium trichomanes)
• slender rock-brake (Cryptogramma stelleri)
• fragile fern (Cystopteris fragilis)
• oak fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris)
• limestone oak fern (Gymnocarpium robertianum)
• purple cliff-brake (Pellaea atropurpurea)
• smooth cliff-brake (Pellaea glabella)
• common polypody (Polypodium virginianum)
• bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
• Oregon woodsia (Woodsia oregana)

Shrubs

• beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta)
• bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera)
• Canadian fly honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis)
• choke cherry (Prunus virginiana)
• thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
• red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
• soapberry (Shepherdia canadensis)

Trees

• balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
• sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
• mountain maple (Acer spicatum)
• paper birch (Betula papyrifera)
• white pine (Pinus strobus)
• red oak (Quercus rubra)
• northern white-cedar (Thuja occidentalis)
• hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)