PLANT LIST
NRES 385/NRES 475 at the Central Wisconsin Environmental Station
You should be able to identify the following plants by sight and be familiar with their scientific names. An
alphabetized list of scientific names only (no common names) will be distributed for use during the plant
exam.
PLANTS OF OPEN AREAS (EXCLUDING WETLANDS)
A. Grass and grass-like plants
1. Kentucky blue grass
2. Smooth brome
Poa pratensis
Bromus inermis
GRAMINEAE (Grass)
GRAMINEAE (Grass)
B. Forbs (Herbs) and non-flowering plants (Ferns and Mosses)
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Stinging nettle
Curled dock
Red (sheep) sorrel
Lamb's quarters
White campion, white cockle
Common tall buttercup
Garlic mustard
Wild strawberry
Cinquefoil
Vetch
White clover
Red clover
Evening primrose
Enchanter’s nightshade
Golden Alexander
Wild carrot (Queen Anne's Lace)
Spreading dogbane
Common milkweed
Common mullein
Butter and eggs
Common plantain
Yarrow
Goldenrod
Pussy toes
Thistle
Orange hawkweed
Canada hawkweed
Dandelion
Tall wild lettuce
White lettuce
Common ragweed
Burdock
Spotted knapweed
Wild bergamont
Orange jewelweed
Urtica dioica
Rumex crispus
Rumex acetosella
Chenopodium album
Silene latifolia
Ranunculus acris
Alliaria petiolata
Fragaria virginiana
Potentilla spp. (9 Wisc spp)
Vicia spp.
Trifolium repens
Trifolium pratense
Oenothera biennis
Circaea lutetiana
Zizia aurea
Daucus carota
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Asclepias syriaca
Verbascum thapsus
Linaria vulgaris
Plantago major
Achillea millefolium
Solidago spp. (21 Wisc spp)
Antennaria neglecta
Cirsium spp.
Hieracium aurantiacum
Hieracium kalmii
Taraxacum officinale
Lactuca canadensis
Prenanthes alba
Ambrosia artemisiifolia
Arctium minus
Centaurea biebersteinii
Monarda fistulosa
Impatiens capensis
C. Shrubs
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URTICACEAE (Nettle)
POLYGONACEAE (Smartweed)
POLYGONACEAE (Smartweed)
CHENOPODIACEAE (Goosefoot)
CARYOPHYLLACEAE (pink)
RANUNCULACEAE (Crowfoot)
BRASSICACEAE (Mustard)
ROSACEAE (Rose)
ROSACEAE (Rose)
FABACEAE (Pea)
FABACEAE (Pea)
FABACEAE (Pea)
ONAGRACEAE (Evening-primrose)
ONAGRACEAE (Evening-primrose)
APIACEAE (Parsley)
APIACEAE (Parsley)
APOCYNACEAE (Dogbane)
ASCLEPIADACEAE (Milkweed)
SCROPHULARIACEAE (Snapdragon)
SCROPHULARIACEAE (Snapdragon)
PLANTAGINACEAE (Plantain)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
LAMIACEAE (Mint)
BALSAMINACEAE (Touch-me-not)
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Staghorn sumac
Common blackberry
Red raspberry
Wild rose
Rhus hirta
Rubus allegheniensis
Rubus idaeus
Rosa spp.
ANACARDIACEAE (Cashew)
ROSACEAE (Rose)
ROSACEAE (Rose)
ROSACEAE (Rose)
PLANTS OF THE WOODLANDS AND WOODLAND EDGES (EXCLUDING WETLANDS)
A. Grass and grasslike plants
42. Rough-leaved rice grass
43. Pennsylvania sedge
Oryzopsis asperifolia
Carex pennsylvanica
GRAMINEAE (Grass)
CYPERACEAE (Sedge)
B. Forbs (herbs) and non-flowering plants (Ferns, Mosses, Clubmosses)
44. Ground cedar, Ground pine,
tree clubmoss, stiff clubmoss
45. Interrupted fern
46. Bracken fern
47. Sensitive fern
48. Lady fern
49. Spinulous wood fern
50. Oak fern
51. Maidenhair fern
52. Jack-in-the-pulpit
53. Beadlily, bluebead
54. Hairy Solomon's seal
55. False Solomon's seal
56. Sessile bellwort, wildoats
57. Large flowered bellwort
58. Canada mayflower
59. Large-flowered trillium
60. Rattlesnake plantain
61. White baneberry
62. Wood anemone
63. Round-lobed hepatica
64. Columbine
65. Early meadow rue
66. Tall wood sorrel
67. Wild geranium, crane’s-bill
68. Downy yellow violet
69. Violets
70. Wild sarsaparilla
71. Sweet cicely
72. Starflower
73. Partridgeberry
74. Bedstraw
75. Large-leaved aster
Lycopodium spp. (6 Wisc spp) LYCOPODIACEAE (Clubmoss)
Osmunda claytoniana
Pteridium aquilinum
Onoclea sensibilis
Athyrium filix-femina
Dryopteris spp.
Gymnocarpium dryopteris
Adiantum pedatum
Arisaema triphyllum
Clintonia borealis
Polygonatum pubescens
Maianthemum racemosum
Uvularia sessilifolia
Uvularia grandiflora
Maianthemum canadense
Trillium grandiflorum
Goodyera pubescens
Actaea pachypoda
Anemone quinquefolia
Anemone americana
Aquilegia canadensis
Thalictrum dioicum
Oxalis stricta
Geranium maculatum
Viola pubescens
Viola. spp. (21 Wisc spp)
Aralia nudicaulis
Osmorhiza claytonii
Trientalis borealis
Mitchella repens
Galium spp. (15 Wisc spp)
Aster macrophyllus
OSMUNDACEAE (Royal Fern)
POLYPODIACEAE (Polypody)
POLYPODIACEAE (Polypody)
POLYPODIACEAE (Polypody)
POLYPODIACEAE (Polypody)
POLYPODIACEAE (Polypody)
POLYPODIACEAE (Polypody)
ARACEAE (Arum)
LILACEAE (Lily)
LILACEAE (Lily)
LILACEAE (Lily)
LILACEAE (Lily)
LILACEAE (Lily)
LILACEAE (Lily)
LILACEAE (Lily)
ORCHIDACEAE (Orchid)
RANUNCULACEAE (Crowfoot)
RANUNCULACEAE (Crowfoot)
RANUNCULACEAE (Crowfoot)
RANUNCULACEAE (Crowfoot)
RANUNCULACEAE (Crowfoot)
OXALIDACEAE (Wood-sorrel)
GERANIACEAE (Geranium)
VIOLACEAE (Violet)
VIOLACEAE (Violet)
ARALIACEAE (Ginsing)
APIACEAE (Parsley)
PRIMULACEAE (Primrose)
RUBIACEAE (Madder)
RUBIACEAE (Madder)
ASTERACEAE (Aster)
Corylus americana
Ostrya virginiana
Ribes spp. (13 Wisc spp)
BETULACEAE (Birch)
BETULACEAE (Birch)
GROSSULARIACEAE (Gooseberry)
C. Shrubs and small trees
76. Hazelnut, American hazel
77. Hop-hornbeam, ironwood
78. Gooseberry, currant
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Black cherry
Choke cherry
Pin cherry
Serviceberry, juneberry
Hawthorn, thorn apple
Mountain ash
Poison ivy
Wild grape
Virginia creeper, woodbine
Gray or panicled dogwood
Round-leaved dogwood
Early low blueberry
Wintergreen
Red-berried elder,
red elderberry
93. Maple-leaved viburnum,
arrowwood
94. American bush-honeysuckle
Prunus serotina
Prunus virginiana
Prunus pensylvanica
Amelanchier spp. (6 Wisc. spp)
Crataegus spp. (50 Wisc spp)
Sorbus americana
Toxicodendron radicans
Vitis spp. (5 Wisc spp)
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
Cornus racemosa
Cornus rugosa
Vaccinium angustifolium
Gaultheria procumbens
Sambucus racemosa
ROSACEAE (Rose)
ROSACEAE (Rose)
ROSACEAE (Rose)
ROSACEAE (Rose)
ROSACEAE (Rose)
ROSACEAE (Rose)
ANACARDIACEAE (Cashew)
VITACEAE (Grape)
VITACEAE (Grape)
CORNACEAE (Dogwood)
CORNACEAE (Dogwood)
ERICACEA (Heath)
ERICACEA (Heath)
CAPRIFOLIACEAE (Honeysuckle)
Viburnum acerifolium
CAPRIFOLIACEAE (Honeysuckle)
Diervilla lonicera
CAPRIFOLIACEAE (Honeysuckle)
Picea abies
Tsuga canadensis
Pinus strobus
Pinus resinosa
Pinus banksiana
Populus grandidentata
Populus tremuloides
Populus deltoides
Populus balsamifera
Betula papyrifera
Quercus rubra
Quercus ellipsoidalis
Quercus alba
Ulmus americana
Robinia pseudoacacia
Acer rubrum
Acer negundo
Fraxinus americana
PINACEAE (Pine)
PINACEAE (Pine)
PINACEAE (Pine)
PINACEAE (Pine)
PINACEAE (Pine)
SALICACEAE (Willow)
SALICACEAE (Willow)
SALICACEAE (Willow)
SALICACEAE (Willow)
BETULACEAE (Birch)
FAGACEAE (Beech)
FAGACEAE (Beech)
FAGACEAE (Beech)
ULMACEAE (Elm)
FABACEAE (Pea)
ACERACEAE (Maple)
ACERACEAE (Maple)
OLEACEAE (Olive)
D. Trees
95. Norway spruce
96. Eastern hemlock
97. White Pine
98. Red pine
99. Jack pine
100. Big-tooth aspen
101. Quaking aspen
102. Cottonwood
103. Balsam poplar
104. Paper birch
105. Red oak
106. Northern pin oak
107. White oak
108. American elm
109. Black locust
110. Red maple
111. Box elder
112. White ash
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