Naturalization of my Property

Property Plant List

This is a list of plants that are on my property. Please note the following:

• This list is very much a work-in-progress.
• Plants are not listed in any particular order; sorry, no Latin names yet.
• Not every plant may be listed here - I may have missed some. I'm still working on identifying all of them.
• Some plants are listed that when I find them, I remove them immediately - for example, garlic mustard. But I list them anyways, since they have been found growing on the property.
• All plants are listed, not just native plants.
• I may not know the exact species of a plant. In these cases I have just listed a generic name for it - for example, "goldenrod". I'm working on identifying the plants more accurately.
• Just because a plant is listed doesn't mean it is still on the property. Plants come and go. If a species has occurred even just once on the property, I have listed it.
• Only a few garden-type plants are listed

Last updated: Oct 15/05

Trees

1. white oak

2. red oak

3. white ash

4. black cherry

5. manitoba maple

6. norway maple
7. sugar maple

8. cucumber magnolia

9. basswood

10. linden

11. apple

12. pear

13. staghorn sumac

14. Colorado spruce

15. white spruce

16. white pine

17. trembling aspen

18. eastern cottonwood

19. Canada plum
20. hackberry
21. serviceberry

Shrubs & woody vines

1. European or common buckthorn (Gradually being removed in one part of the yard, replaced with grey dogwood and other native shrubs. Tolerated as a dense hedge along one side of property)

2. glossy buckthorn (removed when found)

3. chokecherry

4. mountain maple

5. spicebush

6. grey dogwood (actively being planted and encouraged)

7. silky dogwood

8. red osier dogwood (no longer present)

9. pussywillow

10. hawthorn (tree-sized)

11. ninebark

12. red elderberry

13. gooseberry

14. currant (unsure which type)

15. narrow-leaved meadowsweet

16. bush honeysuckle

17. smooth wild rose (native type)

18. grape (native type)

19. butterfly bush (not native, but is nice in the front yard)

20. raspberry

21. blackberry

22. purple-flowering raspberry

23. Japanese barberry (removed when found)

24. Virginia creeper

25. yew (cultivated type)

26. juniper (cultivated types)

27. juniper (native species)

28. white cedar

29. eastern red cedar

30. cedar (couple of different cultivated types)

31. bladdernut

32. lilac

33. honeysuckle (nursery stock) of some sort; resembles Tartarian Honeysuckle, but is likely some variant of this.

34. highbush cranberry

35. snowball bush (nursery stock)

Plants

1. water horehound (Lycopus americanus)

2. green-headed coneflower

3. grey-headed coneflower

4. thin-leaved coneflower

5. purple-headed coneflower

6. black-eyed susan

7. jerusalem artichoke

8. cup plant

9. tickseed sunflower

10. woodland sunflower (2 species)

11. tall coreopsis

12. evening primrose

13. common milkweed

14. swamp milkweed

15. spikenard

16. yellow avens

17. Canada goldenrod

18. zigzag goldenrod

19. New England aster

20. smooth aster

21. heart-leaved aster

22. arrow-leaved aster

23. spotted joe pye weed

24. coltsfoot (non-native but tolerated)

25. motherwort (removed when found)

26. catnip (non-native but tolerated for now)

27. common sunflower (grows from bird feed spilled from bird feeder)

28. daylilly (several varieties) (non-native but used to fill in one area)

29. yellow goatsbeard

30. wild bergamont

31. white campion

32. bladder campion

33. bull thistle (removed when found)

34. nodding thistle (removed when found)

35. pale touch-me-not

36. spotted touch-me-not

37. white trillium

38. red trillium

39. jack in the pulpit

40. violet (several types)

41. wild leek

42. round-lobed hepatica (probably sharp-leaved hepatica as well)

43. comfrey (removed when found)

44. red-seeded dandelion (non-native - some removed, some allowed to stay - rabbits like them)

45. common plantain (non-native - usually ignored)

46. English plantain

47. forget me not (removed when found)

48. ragweed (removed when found)

49. garlic mustard (removed when found)

50. wormseed mustard

51. prairie dock

52. twin leaf

53. virginia waterleaf

54. goldenseal

55. silverweed

56. mullien (non-native but tolerated)

57. yucca (not really native, but nice in the front)

58. herb robert

59. mayapple

60. bloodroot

61. yellow toadflax

62. spotted spurge

63. moneywort

64. ladys thumb

65. pigweed (amaranth)

66. ground ivy (removed when found)

67. lily of the valley

68. wild ginger

69. spiderwort

70. common burdock (removed when found)

71. great burdock (removed when found)

72. curled dock

73. broad-leaved dock

74. goutweed

75. lupine

76. peony

77. iris (cultivated type)

78. carrion flower

79. celandine (removed when found)

80. teasel (only allow maximum of one plant each year)

81. culver's root

82. hooked crowfoot

83. bristly crowfoot

84. tall buttercup

85. yellow wood sorrel

86. dames rocket (controlled, may be completely removed in a couple of years)

87. large flowered bellwort

88. spreading dogbane

89. periwinkle (removed when found)

90. wild carrot (most removed when found)

91. sage

92. thimbleweed

93. Canada anemone

94. early meadow rue

95. asparagus

96. daisy fleabane

97. leafy spurge

98. wild cucumber

99. field bindweed (usually removed when found)

100. purslane

101. chickweed (unsure exactly which species)

102. star flowered solomon's seal

103. solomon's seal

104. great solomon's seal

105. garden phlox

106. rhubarb

107. enchanters nightshade

108. creeping bellflower

109. musk mallow

110. beggar ticks

111. grape hyacinth

112. tulip

113. purple dead nettle

114. hens and chicks

115. rough-fruited cinquefoil

116. common cinquefoil

117. sweet woodruff

118. Labrador violet

119. common speedwell

120. thyme-leaved speedwell

121. bittersweet nightshade

122. black nightshade

123. mossy stonecrop

124. two-row stonecrop (Sedum spurium)

125. turtlehead

126. petty spurge

127. rough cinquefoil

128. willow-herb

129. fringe-tip closed gentian (Gentiana andrewsii)

130. shepherd's purse

131. feverfew

132. yellow giant hyssop

133. stiff-leaved goldenrod

134. tall bellflower

Ferns

1. sensitive fern

2. ostrich fern

3. maidenhair fern

4. interrupted fern

5. cinnamon fern

6. royal fern

7. Christmas fern

8. bulblet fern

9. crested shield fern

10. marginal shield fern

Grasses

1. sweet grass

2. orchard grass

3. ribbon grass

4. several other native and non-native species -- unsure of what they are

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