HELIOPSIS (False Sunflower) in late summer.

Abundant fruit on the ILEX (Michigan Holly).

Podophylum (Mayapple)

Mixture of Little Bluestem & Switchgrass

State Champion Birch in the Sleeping Bear Dunes Park

Redbud (northern seed source) in full blom

Carex (Penn. Sedge) in a field on Aral Road

Red Triilum

Little Bluestem & Switchgrass planting

Gro-low Sumac in fall color

Switchgrass seeding out

I have been working on a comprehensive list of natives that I feel will not only do well in Northern Michigan but are available for retail.  Below is the list. I plan to work towards having  as many of these plant in our inventory as possible through the season.

 

 

PLANT NAME Botanical Name Ammophilia breviligulata Andropogon gerardii Bouteloua curtipendula Calamagrotis canadensis Carex Elymus canadensis Hystrix patula Juncus effusus Koeleria macrantha Panicum virgatum Schizachrium scoparius Sisyrinchium montanum Sorgastrum nutans Sporobolus heterolepis PLANT NAME Botanical Name Celastrus scandens Clematis virginiana Parthenocissus quinquefolia PLANT NAME Botanical Name Agastache foeniculum Anemone canadense Aquilegia canadensis Arisaema triphyllum Asclepias tuberosa Asclepias incarnata Aster laevis Aster nov-angliae Baptisia alba Baptisia australis Caltha palustris Campanula rotundifolia Coreopsis lanceolata Cornus canadensis Dalea purpurea Dicentra eximia Echinacea pallida Echinaceapurpurea Eryngium yuccifolium Eupatorium maculatum Eupatorium purpureum Filipendula rubra Gaultheria procumbens Geranuim maculatum Gentiana andrewsii Geum triflorum Helenium autumnale Heliopsis helianthoides Hepatica america Hepatica acutiloba Heuchera richardsonii Heuchera villosa Hibiscus moscheutos Iris versicolor Iris virginiana Liatrus spicata Lobelia cardinalis Lobelia siphilitica Lupinus perennis Monarda fistulosa Monarda punctata Opuntia humifusa Pennstemon digitalis Phlox divaracata Polemonium reptans Ratibida pinnata Rudbeckia hirta Rudbeckia triloba Sanguinaria canadensis Solidaga rigida Solidaga speciosa Silphium laciniatum Silphium perfoliatum PLANT NAME Botanical Name Thalictrum dioicum Trillium grandiflorum Verbena hastata Verbena stricta Veronicanatrum virginicum PLANT NAME Botanical Name Adiantum pendatum Athyrium filix-femina Dryopteris filix-mas Onoclea sensibilis Osmunda cinnamomea Osmunda regalis Polystrichum acrostichoides Matteuccia pennsyvanica PLANT NAME Botanical Name Actaea pachypoda Actaea rubrum Anemone canadense Arisaema triphyllum Asarum canadense Aquilegia canadensis Campanula rotundifolia Caulophyllum thalictroides Cornus canadensis Dicentra cucullaria Geranuim maculatum Hepatica america Hepatica acutiloba Heuchera americana Heuchera villosa Gaultheria procumbens Geranium maculatum Phlox divaracata Polemonium reptans Podophyllum peltatum Polygonatum biflorum Uvularia grandiflora Sanguinaria canadensis Smilacina racemosa Thalictrum dioicum Trillium grandiflorum PLANT NAME Botanical Name Acer pennsyvanicum Acer rubrum Acer sacharinum Amelanchier laevis Betula alleghanienisi Betula papyrifera Carpinus caroliniana Celtis occidentalis Cercis canadensis Cornus alternifolia Cornus florida Corylus americana Crataegus crus-galli Fagus grandifolia Fraxinus pennsylvanica Gleditsia triacanthos Hamamellis virginiana Larix laricina Tilia americana Liriodendron tulipifera Nyssa sylvatia Ostrya virginiana Ptelea trifoliata Prunus americana Prunus serotina Prunus virginiana Ptelea trifoliata Quercus alba Sorbus americana Tilia americana Viburnum spicatum PLANT NAME Botanical Name Abies balsamea Juniperus communis Juniperus communis Juniperus virginiana Picea glauca Pinus strobus Thuja occidentalis Tsuga canadensis PLANT NAME Botanical Name Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Aronia melanacarpa Alnus rugosa Ceonothus americanus Cephalanthus occidentalis Clematis virginica Comptonia peregrina Cornus racemosa Cornus stolonifera Diervilla lonicera Dirca palustris Hypericum prolificum Hypericum kalmianum Ilex verticulata Lindera benzoin Physocarpus opulifolius Potentilla fruiticosa Prunus pumila Rhus aromatica Rhus typhina Rosa setigera Salix discolor Sambucus canadensis Sambucus racemosa Shepherdia canadensis Spirea alba Staphylea trifolia Symphoricarpos albus Vaccinium angustfolium Viburnum dentatum Viburnum lentago Viburnum prunifolium Viburnum acerifolium Viburnum trilobum

Grass & Sedges Common Name Dune Grass or Beach Grass Big Bluestem Side-oats Gramma Blue-joint Grass Sedge Nodding Wild Grass Bottlebrush Grass Soft-stemmed Rush June Grass Switchgrass Little Bluestem Blue-eyed Grass Indian Grass Prairie Dropseed Vines Common Name American Bittersweet Virgin's Bower Woodbine, Virgina Creeper Wildflowers Common Name Lavender Hyssop Canada Anemone Columbine Jack-in-the-Pulpit Common Milkweed Swamp Milkweed Smooth Aster New England Aster White Wild Indigo Blue False Indigo Marsh Marigold Harebell Sand Coreopsis Bunchberry Purple Praire Clover Wild Bleeding Heart Pale Purple Coneflower Purple Coneflower Rattlesnake Master Joe-Pye-Weed Joe-Pye-Weed Queen of the Praire Wintergreen Wild Geranium Bottle Gentian Praire Smoke Sneezeweed False Sunflower Round-lobed Hepatica Sharp-lobed Hepatica Praire Alumroot Maple leaf Alum Root Rose Mallow Blue Flag Iris Southern Blue flag Marsh Blazing Star Cardinal Flower Blue Lobelia Lupine Bee-Balm Dotted Mint Prickly Pear Beardstougue Woodland Phlox Spreading Jacob's Ladder Yellow Coneflower Black-eyed Susan Brown-eyed Susan Bloodroot Stiff Goldenrod Showy Goldenrod Compass Plant Cup Plant Wildflowers Common Name Early Meadow Rue Large-flowered Trillium Blue Vervain Hoary Vervain Culver's Root FERNS Common Name Maidenhair Fern Lady Fern Robust Male Fern Sensitive Fern Cinnamon Fern Royal Fern Christmas Fern(evergreen) Ostrich Fern Woodland Plants Common Name White Baneberry Red Baneberry Canada Anemone Jack-in-the-Pulpit Wild Ginger Columbine Harebell Blue Cohosh Bunchberry Ductchman's Breeches Wild Geranium Round-lobed Hepatica Sharp-lobed Hepatica American Alum Root Maple leaf Alum Root Wintergreen Wild Geranium Woodland Phlox Spreading Jacob's Ladder May Apple Giant Solomon's Seal Bellwort Bloodroot False Solomon's Seal Early Meadow Rue Large-flowered Trillium Trees - Decidious Common Name Stripped Maple Red Maple Sugar Maple (hardmaple) Serviceberry/Juneberry Yellow birch Paper Birch Blue Beech Hackberry Redbud Pagoda Dowgood Flowering Dogwood American Hazelnut Cockspur Hawthron American Beech Green Ash Honeylocust Common Witchhazel Tamarack Basswood or Linden Tulip Tree Blackgum Ironwood Hoptree Wild Plum Black Cherry Choke Cherry Hop Tree White Oak American Mountain Ash Basswood Mountain Viburnum Trees - Evergreen Common Name Balsam Fir Common Juniper Common Juniper (low growing) Eastern Red Cedar White Spruce White Pine American Arborvitae Canadian Hemlock Shrubs Common Name Bearberry..Kinnikinnick Black Chokeberry Speckled Alder New Jersey Tea Buttonbush Virgin's Bower Sweet Fern Gray dogwood Red-osier Dogwood Bush Honeysuckle Leatherwood Shrubby St. Johnswort St.John's Wort Michigan Holly Spicebush Common Ninebark Common Cinquifoil Sand Cherry Fragrant Sumac Staghorn Sumac Michigan Rose Pussy Willow American Elderberry Red-berried Elder Buffaloberry or Soapberry Willowleaf Spirea American Bladdernut Snowberry Lowland Blueberry Arrowwood viburnum Nannyberry(small tree) Blackhaw Viburnum Maple-leaf Viburnum Highbush Craneberry

SIZE SIZE 1-3' 5-8' 2-3' 2-5' 6" - 2' 3-5' 2-4' 2-3' 2' 3'-4' 2' 10-20" 4-5' 2-3' SIZE SIZE * * * SIZE SIZE 1-3' 8-12" 15" 1' 2' 4-5' 2-4' 3-4' 3-4' 3-4' 6-8" 1-2' 1-2' 4-6" 2-3' 1-2' 3-5' 3-4' 2-3' 4-6' 4-6' 4-5' 3-6" 8-10" 1-2' 8-10" 4' 4' 4" 4" 1-2' 1-2' 3' 2-3' 2' 3'-5' 3-4' 2-3' 1-2' 3-4' 1-2' 6-8" 2'-3' 10-20" 10-15" 4' 2' 2-4' 4-6" 3-4' 2-3' 3-6' 3-6' SIZE SIZE 2-3' 10-15" 3-4' 2-4' 3-5' SIZE SIZE 18" 2' 2' plus 1-2' 3' 3' 1-2' 3-4' SIZE SIZE 1-2' 1-2' 8-12" 1' 4" 15" 1-2' 1-2' 4-6" 4-6" 8-10" 4" 4" 1-2' 1-2' 3-6" 6" 10-20" 10-15" 12-18" 2-3' 6-12" 4-6" 1-3' 2-3' 10-15" SIZE SIZE 30' 50' 60-100' 15-25 50-70' 50-70' 20-25' 40-50 15-20' 10-30' 20' 8-10' 12-20' 50-100' 50-70' 50' 15-25' 30-50' 50-80' 70-90' 30-50' 20-40' 15-20' 12-20' 50-80' 15-25' 15-20' 50-75' 20-30' 50-100' 15-20' SIZE SIZE 50-80' 5-10' 2-4' 15-25' 50-80' 50-80' 12-20' 10-50' SIZE SIZE 4-6" 3-5' 12-15' 1-3' 3-6' vary 2-3' 6-10' 5-10' 2-4' 3-6' 2' 2-3' 5-7' 4-8' 5-10' 2'-3' 3-5' 3' 3-5' 3' vary 5-10' 5-10' 5-8' 2-4' 10-15' 3-6' 1-2' 6-12' 12-15' 10-15' 15-20' 10-12'

HABITAT & SOIL TYPE HABITAT & SOIL TYPE beach sand dry to moist,sandy soils dry to medium, sandy moist soils, sand loam or clay all types…many varieties average to dry soils dry to medium, sandy moist, sunny sites open woodland,well drained open prairie, tolerant of soils open prairie, tolerant of soils meadows to moist soils dry to damp, sand, loam dry to medium, sandy HABITAT & SOIL TYPE HABITAT & SOIL TYPE average to moist soils average to moist soils average to moist soils HABITAT & SOIL TYPE HABITAT & SOIL TYPE dry to medium soils, sany loam average soil average soil woodland soils dry to medium soils, sandy loam mosit dry to medium soils, sandy loam meduium to moist soils, sandy loam medium to moist soils average moisture, medium soils wet, swampy dry/ medium moisture, sandy, gravel dry , sandy soils dry to medium soils, sandy loam dry/medium moisture, sandy,loam Medium to moist soils, sandy loam dry/medium moisture, sandy,loam same soils as above medium to moist soils medium to moist soils medium to moist soils dry to medium medium to moist soils medium to moist soils Medium to moist soils,sandy loam dry dry, sandy soil Dry to moist soil, sandy to loam Dry woodland Dry woodland dry to medium soils, sany loam Medium to moist soils, sany,loam medium to moist soils, sandy to loam moist to wet soils, boggy moist to wet soils, boggy medium to moist soils, sandy to loam moist to wet soils, sand,laom medium to moist soils, sandy to loam Dry sandy soils Dry to moist soil, sandy to loam Dry sandy soils Dry,very dry, sandy soils Medium to moist soils,sandy loam Medium to moist soils,sandy loam Medium to moist soils,sandy loam dry andy soils Dry to moist soil, sandy to loam meduim to moist soils,sand,loam woodland soils dry to medium soils, sany loam dry to medium soils, sany loam average soils, sandy loam average soils, sandy loam HABITAT & SOIL TYPE HABITAT & SOIL TYPE average soils, sandy loam woodland soils medium to damp soils,loamy dry to medium soils, sany loam mosit soils, lots of organic matter HABITAT & SOIL TYPE HABITAT & SOIL TYPE Moist, shady average to dry soil, sandy average to moist moist to wet moist rich soils moist rich soils moist rich soils moist rich soils HABITAT & SOIL TYPE HABITAT & SOIL TYPE woodland soils woodland soils average soil woodland soils woodland soils woodland soils dry/ medium moisture, sandy, gravel woodland soils dry to medium soils, sandy loam woodland soils medium to moist soils Dry woodland Dry woodland dry to medium soils, sany loam Medium to moist soils, sany,loam medium to moist soils woodland soils woodland soils Medium to moist soils,sandy loam Medium to moist soils,sandy loam Medium to moist soils,sandy loam woodland soils woodland soils woodland soils average soils, sandy loam woodland soils HABITAT & SOIL TYPE HABITAT & SOIL TYPE cool moist soils average to moist soils average soils average soils average to moist soils average to moist soils avearge to moist soils average soils average soil & moisture, not wet average soils average soils and mositure average soils and mositure average to dry soils average to moist soils average to moist soils average soils and mositure dry sandy is desired but adaptable moist soils but adaptable average soils and mositure average soil and moisture average to moist soils (acid) very adaptable to soil and moisture dry sandy soils dry sandy soils average to dry sandy soils average to dry sandy soils average to mosit soils dry to average…adaptable average to moist soils average to moist soils average to moist soils HABITAT & SOIL TYPE HABITAT & SOIL TYPE average to moist soils dry sandy soils to average dry sandy soils to average dry sandy is desired but adaptable dry sandy soils to average dry sandy soils to average average to moist soils average soil and moisture HABITAT & SOIL TYPE HABITAT & SOIL TYPE dry, sandy soil moist soils wetland soils average soils and mositure moist to wet conditions average to dry soils dry sandy soils average to mosit soils average to mosit soils average soils and mositure average to moist soils dry sandy is desired but adaptable dry sandy is desired but adaptable moist soils are desired but adaptable moist to average soils, well drained average soils and mositure dry sandy soils dry sandy soils…beach sand dry soils and moisture dry soils and moisture dry soils and moisture moist conditions average to moist soil average to moist soil dry sandy soils moist soils moist fertile soils average to dry soils moist soils very adaptable to soil and moisture adaptable to soils and moisture dry soils and moisture average to dry soils average to moist soils