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OPEN-CANOPY UPLAND FOREST COMMUNITIES Signature trees Two oaks dominate this type, with few associated species attaining their stature: • Black oak • White oak Other trees • Northern pin oak • Red maple • Black cherry • Quaking aspen • Bigtooth aspen • Sassafras • Pignut hickory • White pine • Eastern red cedar • Jack pine (very local) Associated plants The small tree and shrub layer may be almost totally absent in some places or dense and thicket-like in others: • Serviceberries • Choke cherry • Wild plum • Hawthorns • Pasture rose • Shining sumac • American hazelnut • Beaked hazelnut • Dwarf chestnut oak • Low sweet blueberry • Sweetfern • Sand cherry • Prairie willow • Bearberry • Huckleberry • New Jersey tea • Common juniper In these dry prairie habitats, the herb layer is pr<strong>of</strong>use and distinctive, with grasses always an important component: • Northern dewberry • Birdfoot violet • Sky-blue aster • Tall sunflower • Dwarf dandelion Choke cherry 118
Southern Oak Barrens Northern dewberry (red leaves). • Pearly everlasting • Blazing star • False foxglove • Prairie hawkweed • Common St. John’s wort* • Tickseed • Flowering spurge • White pea • Wild lupine • Hairy lespedeza • Wild bergamot • Wood betony • Common ragweed • Spotted knapweed* • Prickly pear cactus • Pennsylvania sedge • Nut grass • Little bluestem grass • Big bluestem grass • Panic grass • Poverty grass • June grass • Needle grass • Hair grass • Reindeer moss lichen * Exotic (non-native) 119
Page 1 and 2: Michigan Forest Communities A Field
Page 3 and 4: CONTENTS Acknowledgments . . . . .
Page 5 and 6: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS O ne does not trave
Page 7 and 8: INTRODUCTION Forests are continuall
Page 9 and 10: A SHORT HISTORY OF MICHIGAN FORESTS
Page 11 and 12: ECOLOGY OF MICHIGAN FORESTS • The
Page 13 and 14: MICHIGAN FOREST COMMUNITY TYPES A f
Page 15 and 16: MICHIGAN FOREST COMMUNITY TYPES ✔
Page 17 and 18: MICHIGAN FOREST COMMUNITY TYPES ✔
Page 19 and 20: 1 Southern Deciduous (Hardwood) Swa
Page 21 and 22: WETLAND FOREST COMMUNITIES Distribu
Page 23 and 24: WETLAND FOREST COMMUNITIES • Nort
Page 25 and 26: 3 Northern Hardwood-Conifer Swamps
Page 27 and 28: 4 Northern Rich Conifer (Cedar) Swa
Page 29 and 30: 6 Southern Mesic Deciduous (Maple-B
Page 31 and 32: CLOSED-CANOPY UPLAND FOREST COMMUNI
Page 33 and 34: Southern Dry-Mesic Oak Forests Sign
Page 35 and 36: 11 Northern Dry-Mesic Pine Forests
Page 37 and 38: Part III. Open-Canopy Upland Forest
Page 39 and 40: Southern Lakeplain Openings Many fo
Page 41: 18 Southern Oak Barrens R Habitat T
Page 45 and 46: 19 Northern Pine and Oak Barrens R
Page 47 and 48: OPEN-CANOPY UPLAND FOREST COMMUNITI
Page 49 and 50: Great Lake Barrens Trees in barrens
Page 51 and 52: 21 Northern Balds, Cliffs, and Bedr
Page 53 and 54: Balds, Cliffs, and Glades Distribut
Page 55 and 56: OPEN-CANOPY UPLAND FOREST COMMUNITI
Page 57 and 58: BIRDS AND MAMMALS ASSOCIATED WITH F
Page 59 and 60: FIELD GUIDES TO SPECIES IDENTIFICAT
Page 61 and 62: ADDITIONAL REFERENCES Cleland, D.T.
Page 63 and 64: LATIN NAMES OF SHRUBS, GROUND FLORA
Page 65 and 66: LATIN NAMES OF SHRUBS, GROUND FLORA

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