Wet-mesic Flatwoods Plant List
Graminoids
- sedges (Carex grayi, C. intumescens, C. lupulina, C. muskingumensis, C. tuckermanii, and others)
- fowl manna grass (Glyceria striata)
Forbs
- jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
- spotted water hemlock (Cicuta maculata)
- enchanter’s-nightshade (Circaea canadensis)
- wild geranium (Geranium maculatum)
- southern blue flag (Iris virginica)
- common water horehound (Lycopus americanus)
- northern bugle weed (Lycopus uniflorus)
- jumpseed (Persicaria virginiana)
- clearweed (Pilea pumila)
- may apple (Podophyllum peltatum)
- bluestem goldenrod (Solidago caesia)
- broad-leaved goldenrod (Solidago flexicaulis)
Ferns
- wood ferns (Dryopteris spp.)
- sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
- royal fern (Osmunda regalis)
- New York fern (Thelypteris noveboracensis)
Woody Vines
- Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
- poison-ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
- riverbank grape (Vitis riparia)
Shrubs
- rough-leaved dogwood (Cornus drummondii)
- witch-hazel (Hamamelis virginiana)
- winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
- spicebush (Lindera benzoin)
- maple-leaved arrow-wood (Viburnum acerifolium)
- prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum)
Trees
- black maple (Acer nigrum)
- red maple (Acer rubrum)
- silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
- sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
- musclewood (Carpinus caroliniana)
- bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis)
- shellbark hickory (Carya laciniosa)
- shagbark hickory (Carya ovata)
- hackberry (Celtis occidentalis)
- hawthorns (Crataegus spp.)
- American beech (Fagus grandifolia)
- white ash (Fraxinus americana)
- green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
- pumpkin ash (Fraxinus profunda)
- ironwood (Ostrya virginiana)
- sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)
- cottonwood (Populus deltoides)
- white oak (Quercus alba)
- swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor)
- bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa)
- chinquapin oak (Quercus muehlenbergii)
- pin oak (Quercus palustris)
- red oak (Quercus rubra)
- Shumard’s oak (Quercus shumardii)
- basswood (Tilia americana)
- American elm (Ulmus 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: October 15, 2024).