Plants at the Habitat Discovery Center
Plants are listed alphabetically by scientific name. Common names are provided for reference.
Trees & shrubs
- Acer pennsylvanicum — Striped maple
- Acer saccharum — Sugar maple
- Amelanchier laevis — Serviceberry
- Ceanothus americanus — New Jersey tea
- Clematis occidentalis — Purple clematis
- Comptonia peregrina — Sweet fern
- Cornus alternifolia — Alternate-leaved dogwood
- Cornus racemosa — Gray dogwood
- Cornus sericea — Red osier dogwood
- Corylus americana — Hazelnut
- Dasiphora fruticosa — Shrubby cinquefoil
- Hamamelis virginiana — Witch hazel
- Hypericum kalmianum — Kalm's St. John's wort
- Hypericum prolificum — Shrubby St. John's wort
- Juniperus horizontalis — Creeping juniper
- Kalmia angustifolia — Northern sheep laurel
- Larix laricina — Tamarack
- Lonicera dioica — Glaucous honeysuckle
- Parthenocissus quinquefolia — Virginia creeper
- Pinus strobus — White pine
- Prunus pumila — Sand cherry
- Prunus serotina — Black cherry
- Prunus virginiana — Choke cherry
- Quercus alba — White oak
- Quercus macrocarpa — Bur oak
- Quercus rubra — Red oak
- Quercus velutina — Black oak
- Rhus typhina — Staghorn sumac
- Rosa blanda — Dune rose
- Rosa palustris — Swamp rose
- Salix cordata — Dune willow
- Salix humilis — Prairie willow
- Salix nigra — Black willow
- Shepherdia canadensis — Russet buffaloberry
- Spiraea alba — Meadowsweet
- Symphoricarpos albus — Snowberry
- Thuja occidentalis — White cedar
- Tilia americana — Basswood
- Vaccinium angustifolium — Low sweet blueberry
- Vaccinium corymbosum — Highbush blueberry
- Viburnum acerifolium — Mapleleaf viburnum
- Viburnum cassinoides — Wild raisin
- Viburnum dentatum — Arrowwood
- Viburnum lentago — Nannyberry
- Viburnum trilobum — American highbush cranberry
Grasses and sedges
- Carex eburnea — Ebony sedge
- Carex muehlenbergii — Sand bracted sedge
- Carex pensylvanica — Pennsylvania sedge
- Carex rosea — Curly-styled wood sedge
- Carex sparganioides — Bur-reed sedge
- Carex sprengelii — Long-beaked sedge
- Carex vulpinoidea — Brown fox sedge
- Elymus hystrix — Bottlebrush grass
- Elymus trachycaulus — Slender wheatgrass
- Eragrostis spectabilis — Purple love grass
- Sporobolus cryptandrus — Sand dropseed
Forbs
- Acorus americanus — Sweet-flag
- Agastache nepetoides — Yellow giant hyssop
- Ageratina altissima — White snakeroot
- Agrimonia gryposepala — Tall hairy agrimony
- Allium cernuum — Nodding wild onion
- Amorpha canescens — Leadplant
- Anaphalis margaritacea — Pearly everlasting
- Anemone canadensis — Canada anemone
- Anemone cylindrica — Thimbleweed
- Anemone multifida — Red anemone
- Anemone virginiana — Thimbleweed
- Antennaria howellii — Small pussytoes
- Antennaria parlinii — Smooth pussytoes
- Arnoglossum plantagineum — Prairie Indian plantain
- Asarum canadense — Wild ginger
- Asclepias exaltata — Poke milkweed
- Asclepias incarnata — Swamp milkweed
- Asclepias syriaca — Common milkweed
- Asclepias tuberosa — Butterfly weed
- Asclepias verticillata — Whorled milkweed
- Astragalus canadensis — Canada milk vetch
- Aquilegia canadensis — Columbine
- Baptisia australis — Blue false indigo
- Baptisia bracteata — Cream false indigo
- Baptisia lactea — White false indigo
- Campanulastrum rotundifolium — Harebell
- Capnoides sempervirens — Pale corydalis
- Cerastium arvense — Field chickweed
- Chamaenerion angustifolium — Fireweed
- Cirsium discolor — Pasture thistle
- Cirsium hillii — Hill's thistle
- Claytonia virginica — Spring beauty
- Clinopodium arkansanum — Calamint
- Clinopodium vulgare — Wild basil
- Conyza canadensis — Horseweed
- Coreopsis lanceolata — Sand coreopsis
- Coreopsis palmata — Prairie coreopsis
- Coreopsis tripteris — Tall coreopsis
- Dalea purpurea — Purple prairie clover
- Desmodium canadense — Showy tick-trefoil
- Doellingeria umbellata — Flat-topped white aster
- Drymocallis arguta — Prairie cinquefoil
- Erigeron philadelphicus — Philadelphia fleabane
- Erigeron pulchellus — Robin's plantain
- Eurybia macrophylla — Large-leaved aster
- Euthamia graminifolia — Grass-leaved goldenrod
- Eutrochium maculatum — Joe Pye weed
- Filipendula rubra — Queen of the prairie
- Fragaria vesca — Woodland strawberry
- Fragaria virginiana — Wild strawberry
- Geranium maculatum — Wild geranium
- Geum aleppicum — Yellow avens
- Geum canadense — White avens
- Geum fragarioides — Barren strawberry
- Geum triflorum — Prairie smoke
- Helianthus divaricatus — Woodland sunflower
- Helianthus mollis — Downy sunflower
- Helianthus occidentalis — Western sunflower
- Helenium autumnale — Sneezeweed
- Heliopsis helianthoides — False sunflower
- Houstonia canadensis — Canada bluets
- Houstonia longifolia — Long-leaved bluets
- Hydrophyllum virginianum — Virginia waterleaf
- Hypericum ascyron — Great St. John's wort
- Lathyrus japonicus — Beach pea
- Liatris cylindracea — Cylindrical blazing star
- Liatris scariosa — Northern blazing star
- Lilium michiganense — Michigan lily
- Lobelia siphilitica — Blue lobelia
- Lupinus perennis — Sundial lupine
- Maianthemum canadense — Canada mayflower
- Maianthemum stellatum — Starry false Solomon-seal
- Mertensia virginica — Virginia bluebells
- Minuartia michauxii — Rock sandwort
- Monarda fistulosa — Bergamot
- Monarda punctata — Spotted bee balm
- Nuttallanthus canadensis — Blue toadflax
- Oenothera biennis — Evening primrose
- Oenothera fruticosa — Sundrops
- Oenothera pilosella — Prairie sundrops
- Packera aurea — Golden ragwort
- Packera paupercula — Balsam ragwort
- Penstemon calycosus — Smooth beardtongue
- Penstemon digitalis — Foxglove beardtongue
- Penstemon hirsutus — Hairy beardtongue
- Phlox divaricata — Wild blue phlox
- Phlox pilosa — Prairie phlox
- Physalis virginiana — Ground cherry
- Polygonatum pubescens — Solomon's seal
- Potentilla anserina — Silverweed
- Potentilla norvegica — Rough cinquefoil
- Potentilla simplex — Common cinquefoil
- Pycnanthemum virginianum — Virginia mountain mint
- Ranunculus abortivus — Small-flowered buttercup
- Ranunculus hispidus — Swamp buttercup
- Rudbeckia triloba — Brown-eyed Susan
- Sanguinaria canadensis — Bloodroot
- Scrophularia lanceolata — Early figwort
- Scutellaria leonardii — Small skullcap
- Silphium integrifolium — Rosinweed
- Silphium laciniatum — Compass plant
- Silphium perfoliatum — Cup plant
- Silphium terebinthinaceum — Prairie dock
- Solidago caesia — Blue-stemmed goldenrod
- Solidago flexicaulis — Zig-zag goldenrod
- Solidago juncea — Early goldenrod
- Solidago nemoralis — Old field goldenrod
- Solidago ohioensis — Ohio goldenrod
- Solidago patula — Swamp goldenrod
- Solidago ptarmicoides — Upland white goldenrod
- Solidago rigida — Stiff goldenrod
- Solidago speciosa — Showy goldenrod
- Stylophorum diphyllum — Wood poppy
- Symphyotrichum ciliolatum — Northern heart-leaved aster
- Symphyotrichum firmum — Smooth swamp aster
- Symphyotrichum laeve — Smooth aster
- Symphyotrichum lanceolatum — Panicled aster
- Symphyotrichum lateriflorum — Calico aster
- Symphyotrichum novae-angliae — New England aster
- Symphyotrichum oolentangiense — Sky-blue aster
- Symphyotrichum urophyllum — Arrow-leaved aster
- Taenidia integerrima — Yellow pimpernel
- Teucrium canadense — Germander
- Tetraneuris herbacea — Lakeside daisy
- Tradescantia ohiensis — Ohio spiderwort
- Triodanis perfoliata — Venus' looking-glass
- Trillium erectum — Red trillium
- Trillium grandiflorum — Common trillium
- Verbena hastata — Blue vervain
- Verbena simplex — Narrow-leaved vervain
- Verbena stricta — Hoary vervain
- Vernonia spp. — Ironweed
- Viola blanda — Sweet white violet
- Viola canadensis — Canada violet
- Viola labradorica — Dog violet
- Viola palmata — Blue wood violet
- Viola pedata — Birdsfoot violet
- Viola sororia — Common blue violet