List of Flora
for Bogs
––––––Bog Flora–––––– | |
Scientific Names | Common Names |
Amelanchier interior * | Serviceberry sp. |
Andromeda glaucophylla | Bog Rosemary |
Arethusa bulbosa | Dragon's Mouth Orchid |
Aronia melanocarpa | Black Chokeberry |
Aronia prunifolia | Purple Chokeberry |
Bartonia virginica | Yellow Bartonia |
Betula allegheniensis * | Yellow Birch |
Betula pumila | Dwarf Birch |
Bidens cernua | Nodding Bur-Marigold |
Boehmeria cylindrica drummondiana * | False Nettle |
Brasenia schreberi | Watershield |
Calla palustris | Wild Calla |
Calopogon tuberosus | Grass Pink Orchid |
Cardamine pratensis | Cuckoo Flower |
Carex brunnescens | Brown Sedge |
Carex canescens | Silvery Sedge |
Carex chordorrhiza | Cordroot Sedge |
Carex disperma | Soft-Leaved Sedge |
Carex lasiocarpa | Hairy-Fruited Sedge |
Carex leptalea | Slender Sedge |
Carex limosa | Sedge sp. |
Carex oligosperma | Few-Seeded Sedge |
Carex trisperma | Three-Fruited Sedge |
Chamaedaphne calyculata angustifolia | Leatherleaf |
Circaea alpina * | Small Enchanter's Nightshade |
Cladium mariscoides | Twig Rush |
Clintonia borealis * | Bluebead Lily |
Comarum palustre | Marsh Cinquefoil |
Coptis trifolia * | Goldthread |
Corallorhiza trifida * | Early Coral Root |
Cornus canadensis * | Bunchberry |
Cypripedium acaule * | Pink Lady's Slipper |
Cypripedium candidum | White Lady's Slipper |
Cypripedium parviflorum | Small Yellow Lady's Slipper |
Cypripedium reginae | Showy Lady's Slipper |
Drosera intermedia | Spoon-Leaved Sundew |
Drosera rotundifolia | Round-Leaved Sundew |
Dryopteris cristata * | Crested Wood Fern |
Epilobium leptophyllum | Bog Willow Herb |
Epilobium strictum | Downy Willow Herb |
Eriophorum gracile | Cotton Sedge sp. |
Eriophorum tenellum | Cotton Sedge sp. |
Eriophorum virdi-carinatum | Cotton Sedge sp. |
Eriophorum virginicum | Cotton Sedge sp. |
Galium labradoricum | Bog Bedstraw |
Galium trifidum | Small Bedstraw |
Geum aleppicum | Yellow Avens |
Huperzia lucidula lucidula * | Shining Clubmoss |
Isotria verticillata * | Large Whorled Pogonia |
Juncus canadensis | Canada Rush |
Juncus vaseyi | Vasey's Rush |
Larix decidua * | American Larch |
Linnaea borealis * | Twin-Flower |
Lycopodiella inundata | Bog Clubmoss |
Lysimachia terrestris | Swamp Candles |
Lysimachia thrysifolia | Tufted Loosestrife |
Maianthemum canadense * | Canada Mayflower |
Malaxis brachypoda * | Adder's Mouth Orchid |
Menyanthes trifoliata minor | Buckbean |
Orthilia secunda * (syn. Pyrola secunda) |
One-Sided Shinleaf |
Osmunda cinnamomea * | Cinnamon Fern |
Osmunda regalis spectabilis * | Royal Fern |
Platanthera dilatata * | Tall White Bog Orchid |
Platanthera psycodes * | Purple-Fringed Orchid |
Pilea fontana * | Bog Clearweed |
Poa paludigena | Marsh Bluegrass |
Pogonia ophioglossoides | Rose Pogonia |
Populus tremuloides * | Quaking Aspen |
Pyrola asarifolia * | Pink Wintergreen |
Pyrola chlorantha * | Green-Flowered Shinleaf |
Rhamnus alnifolia | Alder Buckthorn |
Rhynchospora alba | White Beak-Rush |
Rhynchospora capillacea | Beak-Rush sp. |
Ribes hirtellum | Northern Gooseberry |
Rubus hispidus | Swamp Dewberry |
Rubus pubescens * | Dwarf Raspberry |
Rubus strigosus * | Wild Red Raspberry |
Salix bebbiana | Bebb's Willow |
Salix candida | Hoary Willow |
Salix lucida | Shining Willow |
Salix pedicellaris hypoglauca | Bog Willow |
Salix serissima | Autumn Willow |
Sarracenia purpurea | Northern Pitcher Plant |
Sceleria verticillata | Whorled Nut-Rush |
Scheuchzeria palustris americana | Arrow-Grass |
Scirpus atrocinctus | Black Bulrush |
Scirpus microcarpus | Small-Fruited Bulrush |
Solidago uliginosa | Bog Goldenrod |
Spiraea tomentosa | Steeplebush |
Thelypteris palustris pubescens | Marsh Fern |
Tofieldia glutinosa | False Asphodel |
Toxicodendron vernix | Poison Sumac |
Triadenum fraseri | Fraser's Marsh St. John's Wort |
Triadenum virginicum | Marsh St. John's Wort |
Trichophorum cespitosum callosum | Tufted Bulrush |
Trientalis borealis * | Starflower |
Triglochin maritima | Arrow-Grass sp. |
Vaccinium angustifolium | Low-Bush Blueberry |
Vaccinium corymbosum * | High-Bush Blueberry |
Vaccinium macrocarpon | Large Cranberry |
Vaccinium myrtilloides * | Canada Blueberry |
Vaccinium oxycoccos | Small Cranberry |
Viola blanda * | Sweet White Violet |
Viola macloskeyi * | Smooth White Violet |
Viola nephrophylla | Northern Blue Violet |
Woodwardia virginica * | Chain Fern |
* shaded areas (usually tamarack bogs)