Read and learn about these Michigan native species.
These informational articles are written by Wild Ones River City members.
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Forbs
- American Searocket, Cakile endentula
- American Senna, Senna hebecarpa
- American Spikenard, Aralia racemosa
- American Winterberry, Ilex verticillata
- Bear Corn, Conopholis americana
- Blue Wild Indigo, Baptisia australis
- Bowman’s Root, Gillenia trifoliata
- Canada Mayflower, Maianthemum canadense
- Coreopsis Asteraceae sp.
- Culver’s Root, Veronicastrum virginicum
- Cup Plant, Silphium perfoliatum
- Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid, Platanthera leucophaea
- Enchanter’s Nightshade, Circaea lutetiana subsp. canadensis
- Ferns
- Fringed Gentian, Gentianopsis crinita
- Great Blue Lobelia, Lobelia Siphilitica
- Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia
- Hart’s Tongue Fern, Asplenium scolopendrium L. var. americanum
- Indian Pipe, Monotropa uniflora
- Mayapple, Podophyllum peltatum
- Milkweed, Asclepias species
- Mountain Mint, Pycnanthemum virginianum
- Nodding Onion, Allium cernuum
- Phlox, Phlox sp.
- Purple Meadow Rue, Thalictrum dasycarpum
- Ramps, Allium tricoccum
- Rattlesnake Master, Eryngium yuccifolium
- Spring Beauty, Claytonia virginica
- Sweetfern, Comptonia peregrina
- Trailing Arbutus, Epigaea repens
- Twinleaf, Jeffersonia diphylla
- Virginia bluebells, Mertensia virginica
- White Avens, Geum candadense
- White Vervain, Verbena urticifolia
- Wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
- Wild Columbine, Aquilegia canadensis
- Wood Poppy: A Tale of Two Poppies
Grasses/Sedges
- Indian Grass, Sorghastrum nutans
- Inland Sea-Oats, Chasmanthium latifolium
- Woolgrass, Scirpus cyperinus
Trees/Shrubs
- American Bladdernut, Staphylea trifolia
- American Spicebush, Lindera bezoin
- Bunchberry Dogwood, Cornus canadensis
- Buttonbush, Cephalanthus occidentalis
- Eastern Red Cedar, Juniperus virginiana
- Eastern White Pine, Pinus Strobus
- Hoptree, Ptelea trifoliata
- Juneberry/Serviceberry, Amelanchier sp
- Oaks, Quercus sp.
- PawPaw, Asimina triloba
- Pignut Hickory, Carya glabra
- Pussy Willow, Salix discolor
- Shagbark Hickory, Carya ovata
- Tamarack, Larix Laricina
- Witch Hazel, Hamamelis virginiana