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)
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 21, 2024).