Read and learn about these Michigan native species.
These informational articles are written by Wild Ones River City members.
Click on the links to read or download.
More to come—enjoy!
- American Bladdernut, Staphylea trifolia
- American Searocket, Cakile endentula
- American Senna, Senna hebecarpa
- American Spicebush, Lindera bezoin
- American Spikenard, Aralia racemosa
- American Winterberry, Ilex verticillata
- Bear Corn, Conopholis americana
- Blue Wild Indigo
- Bowman’s Root
- Bunchberry Dogwood
- Buttonbush
- Canada Mayflower
- Coreopsis
- Culver’s Root
- Cup Plant
- Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Eastern White Pine
- Enchanter’s Nightshade
- Ferns
- Fringed Gentian
- Great Blue Lobelia
- Harebell
- Hart’s Tongue Fern
- Hoptree, Ptelea trifoliata
- Indian Grass, Sorghastrum nutans
- Inland sea-oats
- Indian Pipe
- Juneberry
- Mayapple
- Milkweed
- Mountain Mint
- Nodding Onion
- Oaks Quercus sp.
- PawPaw
- Phlox
- Pignut Hickory
- Purple Meadow Rue
- Pussy Willow
- Ramps
- Rattlesnake Master
- Shagbark Hickory, Carya ovata
- Spring Beauty
- Sweetfern
- Tamarack
- Twinleaf, Jeffersonia diphylla
- Virginia bluebells, Mertensia virginica
- White Avens
- White Vervain
- Wintergreen
- Witch Hazel
- Wild Columbine
- Wood Poppy: A Tale of Two Poppies
- Woolgrass, Scirpus cyperinus