Pere-Marquette Rail-Trail Wildflowers

Common Name Botanical Name Mile Month Photo Verified Segment date Yarrow - Common, Woolly Achillea millefolium 1-10 5, 6, 7, 8 √ Baneberry - White Actaea pachypoda √ Baneberry - Red Actaea rubra √ Mustard - Garlic Alliaria petiolata 1-7 5 √ Ragweed- Common Ambrosia artemisiifolia 3 9 √ Pearly Everlasting Anaphalis margaritacea 3 9 Anemone - Canada Anemone canadensis 3-7, 10 5, 6 √ Anemone - Wood Anemone quinquefolia 1, 3-6, 8 4, 5, √ Anemone - Thimbleweed Anemone virginiana 3-5, 7-10 5, 6, 7, √ Pussytoes - Field Antennaria neglecta 1, 3, 4 4, 5, 6 Dogbane - Spreading Apocynum androsaemifolium 3, 5 7, 8 5, 6, 7, 8 √ Dogbane - Indian Hemp Apocynum cannabinum 3-6, 8-10 5, 6, 7, 8 √ Columbine - Wild Red Aquilegia canadensis 3, 5, 6, 10 5, 6 √ Columbine – European or Garden Aquilegia vulgaris 3, 9 5 √ Rockcress - Hairy Arabis hirsute 1 8 Jack-In-The-Pulpit Arisaema triphyllum 5, 6 5, 6, 7, 8 √ Butterflyweed Ascelpias tuberosa √ Milkweed - Swamp or Pink Asclepias incarnata 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 5, 6, 7, 8 √ Milkweed - Common Asclepias syriaca 1-5, 8-10 5, 6, 7 √ Winter Cress - Early, Early Yellow Rocket Barbarea verna 3 5 √ Winter Cress - Common, Yellow Rocket Barbarea vulgaris arcuata 1-5, 7, 8 4- 9 √ Alyssum - Hoary Berteroa incana 3, 4 7 √ Boltonia, False Aster, White Doll’s Aster Boltonia asteroides 3,9 5,8,9 √ Mustard - Black Brassica nigra 2 8 √ Mustard - Field, Rape Brassica rapa var. campestris 3 4, 5 Bindweed - Hedge False Calystegia sepium 10 7 √ Cornflower Centaurea cyanus 2 6 Knapweed - Spotted Centaurea stoebe* (Centaurea 1-10 7, 8, 9 √ maculosa+)

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Common Name Botanical Name Mile Month Photo Verified Segment date Chickweed - Mouse-Eared Cerastium vulgatum 1, 3, 5 5, 6 √ Turtlehead Chelone glabra 3, 5, 9 8, 9 √ Chicory Cichorium intybus 2-4, 8 6, 7, 8 √ Water Hemlock, Spotted Cowbane Cicuta maculata 3, 8, 9, 10 7, √ Thistle - Canada Cirsium arvense 2-4, 10 6, 7, 8 √ Thistle - Field Cirsium discolor 6 9 Thistle - Bull Cirsium vulgare 2-10 7, 8 √ Virgin's Bower, Old Man's Beard Clematis virginiana 1, 3, 7, 8 8, 9 √ Lily - Bluebead Clintonia borealis 3 5 √ Toadflax - Bastard Comandra umbellata 3-5, 9, 10 4, 5 √

Cinquefoil - Marsh, Purple Marshlocks Comarum palustre* (Potentilla 3 5,6 √ palustre+) Lily Of The Valley Convallaria majalis 4, 5, 6, 8 4, 5 √ Bindweed - Field Convolvulus arvensis √ Horseweed Conyza canadensis 3, 10 8 Coreopsis - Largeflower or Common Coreopsis grandiflora √ Coreopsis – Lanceleaf or Sand, Lanceleaf Coreopsis lanceolata 2, 7 6, 7 √ Tickseed Bunchberry, Creeping Dogwood Cornus canadensis √ Vetch - Crown Coronilla varia 1-4, 7-10 6, 7, 8, 9 √ Lady Slipper - Pink, Moccasin Flower Cypripedium acaule 3 5 √ Queen Anne's Lace, Wild Carrot Daucus carota 1-10 6, 7, 8, 9 √ Tick Trefoil - Showy Desmodium canadense 3 7,8 √ Tick Trefoil - Pointed-leaved Desmodium glutinosum 9 6, 7, 8 √ Deptford Pink Dianthus armeria 1-4, 6, 9 5, 6, 7 √ Sweet William - domestic Dianthus barbatus 2 5 √ Dutchman's Breeches Dicentra cucullari 8 4 √

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Common Name Botanical Name Mile Month Photo Verified Segment date Aster - Flat-Topped White or Parasol Doellingeria umbellate*, (Aster 1-5, 9, 10 8, 9 √ umbellatus+) Strawberry - Indian or False Duchesnea indica 4 5 √ Coneflower - Purple Echinacea purpurea 1, 2, 7 6, 7, 8, 9 √ Anemone - False Rue Enemion biternatum Trailing Arbutus Epigaea repens 3, 9, 11 5 √ Orchid - Helleborine Epipactis helleborine 9 7 √ Fleabane - Eastern Daisy Erigeron annuus 3, 4, 6, 10 5, 6, 7 √ Fleabane - Common Daisy or Philadelphia Erigeron philadelphicus 2,3 5 √ Fleabane - Lesser Daisy Erigeron strigosus 3-5, 7,8 4, 5, 6, 7, √ 8 Wallflower - Siberian Erysimum hieraciifolium (Cheiranthus √ alionii,) Lily - Trout, Dog Tooth Violet, Yellow Erythronium americanum 8, 9 5 √ Adder’s Tongue Boneset - Common Eupatorium perfoliatum 2-5, 8- 10 7, 8. 9 √ Spurge - Leafy Euphorbia esula 7 7 √ Aster - White Wood Eurybia divaricate* (Aster divaricate) 7 8, 9 Aster - Large-Leaved, Bigleaf Eurybia macrophylla~ (Aster 3 8, 9 √ macrophylla+) Goldenrod - Grass-Leaved or Lanceleaf Euthamia graminifolia* (Solidago 1-4, 8, 9 7, 8, 9 √ graminifolia+) Joe-Pye Weed - Spotted or Pale pink Eutrochium maculatum (Eupatorium 3,4 7-10 7, 8, 9 √ maculatum) Joe-Pye Weed - Purple or Sweet-Scented Eutrochium purpureum* (Eupatorium 3-5, 9, 10 7, 8, 9 √ purpureum) Strawberry - Common, Wild or Wood Fragaria vesca or Fragaria virginiana 1-10, AB 4, 5 √ Blanketflower - Common Gaillardia aristata 2,3,6 6,7,8 √ Cleavers, Goosegrass, Stickywilly Galium aparine 3, 4 5, 6, 7 √ Bedstraw - Northern Galium boreale 3, 4, 9, 10 6, 7 √

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Common Name Botanical Name Mile Month Photo Verified Segment date Wintergreen, Eastern Teaberry, Gaultheria procumbens 3, 8, AB 5 √ Checkerberry Gentian - Closed Or Bottle Gentiana andrewsii 3-5 8 √ Gentian - Fringed Gentianopsis crinita 9 9 √ Geranium - Wild, Cranesbill Geranium maculatum 1-10 4, 5, 6 √ Avens - Yellow Geum aleppicum 3, 9 6 √ Avens - White Geum canadense 5 6 √ Sunflower - Woodland or Rough Helianthus divaricatus 6, 7, 8 8, 9 √ Sunflower - Giant or Tall Helianthus giganteus 3, 4, 8-10 6, 7, 8, 9 √ Parsnip - Cow Heracleum maximum 7 6 Dame's Rocket Hesperis matronalis 2, 7 5, 6 √ Hawkweed - Orange Hieracium aurantiacum 3, 5 5, 6 √ Hawkweed – Yellow or Meadow Hieracium caespitosum or Hieracium 3, 4 5, 6 √ pratense Hawkweed - Canada, Narrow-leaf or Hieracium Canadensis √ Northern Hawkweed - Mouse-Ear Hieracium pilosella 3 5 Hawkweed – Glaucous or Smooth, King Hieracium piloselloides 3, 5 5, 6, 7, 8 √ Devil Bluets Houstonia caerulea √ St. John's Wort - Common Hypericum perforatum 1-5,8- 10 6, 7, 8 √ St. John’s Wort - Greater Hypericum pyramidatum 8 7 Touch-Me-Not, Jewelweed Impatiens capensis 3, 4, 7, 8 8 √ Iris - Blue Flag Iris versicolor 3-5, 7-10 5, 6 √ Lettuce - Canada Lactuca canadensis 3, 5 6, 7, 8 √ Lettuce - Prickly Lactuca serriola*, or Lactuca scariola+ 3 8 √ Nettle - Purple Dead Lamium purpureum 3 5 √ Pea - Perennial or Everlasting Lathyrus latifolius 6 9 √ Peppergrass- Field Lepidium campetre 3 5

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Common Name Botanical Name Mile Month Photo Verified Segment date Daisy - Oxeye Leucanthemum vulgare*, 1-10 5, 6, 7, 8 √ (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum+) Daisy - Shasta Leucanthemum x superbum √ Lily - Michigan Lilium michiganense 2, 4, 5, 9 6, 7 √ Lily - Asian or Oriental Lilium x 1, 6 6, 7 √ Butter-and-Eggs, Yellow Toadflax Linaria vulgaris 1, 3-5, 8, 9 7, 8 √ Flax - Common Linum usitatissimum 7 6 √ Hoary Puccoon Lithospermum canescens 2 5 √ Cardinal Flower Lobelia cardinalis 8 9 √ Lobelia - Spike Lobelia spicata 9 8 √ Trefoil - Bird's-Foot Lotus corniculatus 2-9 6, 7, 8 √ Horehound - Water Lycopus americanus √ Bugleweed - Northern Lycopus uniflorus 10 8 Loosestrife - Fringed Lysimachia ciliata 3-5, 9, 10 6, 7, 8 √ Loosestrife - Whorled Yellow Lysimachia quadrifolia 3-5, 10 6 √ Loosestrife - Tufted Lysimachia thyrsiflora 3 6 √ Loosestrife - Winged Lythrum alatum √ Loosestrife - Purple Lythrum salicaria 1-10 6 7, 8, 9 √ Canada Mayflower, Wild Lily-Of-The- Maianthemum canadense 3-5, AB 5 √ Valley Solomon's Seal - False Maianthemum racemosum*, (Smilacina 3, 6, 7, 9, 10 5, 6 √ racemosum+) Solomon's Seal - Starry False Maianthemum stellatum 6, 8 4, 5 √ Solomon’s Seal - Three-leaved False Maianthemum trifolium (Smilacina 3 5 √ trifolia) Black Medick Medicago lupulina 1-5 5, 6 √ Clover - White Sweet Melilotus alba 1-10 6, 7, 8, 9 √ Clover - Yellow Sweet Melilotus officinalis 2-5, 7, 9 5, 6, 7, 8 √ Mint - Wild or Field Mentha arvensis 5, 9 8 √

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Common Name Botanical Name Mile Month Photo Verified Segment date Monkey Flower - Allegheny or Square- Mimulus ringens 9 7 Stemmed Four O’clock, Heartleaf Mirabilis nyctaginea 2, 3 6 √ Bergamot – Wild or Beebalm Monarda fistulosa 1-5, 9, 10 6, 7, 8 √ Bee Balm - Spotted, Horsemint Monarda punctata 9, 10 7 √ Hyacinth - Grape Muscari botryoides √ Catnip Nepeta cataria 3, 5 7, 8 √ Evening Primrose - Common Oenothera biennis 2, 3, 5-10 7, 8, 9 √ Sundrops Oenothera fructosa 3 8 √ Sweet-Cicely - Hairy, Clayton’s or Osmorhiza longistylis or Osmorhiza 1, 6 7 √ Longstyle Sweetroot, Sweet Jarvil claytonii,

Wood Sorrel – Creeping Yellow Oxalis carniculata 3 7 √ Wood Sorrel - Yellow Oxalis stricta or Oxalis europaea 1-5, 8 5, 6, 7, 8 √ Ginseng - American Panax quinquefolius √ Parsnip - Wild Pastinaca sativa 8 6 √ Lousewort - Canadian, Wood Betony Pedicularis canadensis 4, 7, 10 5 √ Beardtongue - Foxglove Penstemon digitalis 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 5, 6, 7 √ Beardtongue - Slender Penstemon gracilis √ Beardtongue - Hairy Penstemon hirsutus 2, 4, 5 5, 6 √ Phlox - Wild Blue Phlox divaricata √ Groundcherry Physalis heterophylla 3, 4, 5 6, 7, 8 √ Dragonhead – False, Obedient Plant Physostegia virginiana 3 7,8,9 √ Plantain- English Plantago lanceolata 1-4 6, 7 √ May Apple, Mandrake Podophyllum peltatum 1, 5, 6 4,5 √ Gaywings, Fringed Polygala Polygala paucifloia 3-5 4,5 √ Smartweed - Water Polygonum, amphibium 3 6 √ Cinquefoil - Rough Potenntilla norvegica √ Cinquefoil - Silver Potentilla argentia 2 5 √

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Common Name Botanical Name Mile Month Photo Verified Segment date Cinquefoil - Dwarf Potentilla canadensis √ Cinquefoil - Rough Fruited or Sulphur Potentilla recta 3, 4 5, 6,7 √ Cinquefoil - Common Potentilla simplex 1-5, 9 5, 6, 7 √ Lettuce - White, Rattlesnake Root Prenanthes alba 3,4,5 8 √ Lettuce - Tall White, Tall Rattlesnake Root Prenanthus altissima 3,9 8 √ Self-heal - Common, Heal-all Prunella vulgaris 2,3, 4, 9, 10 6, 7 √ Choke Cherry Prunus virginiana √ Shinleaf Pyrola elliptica 3, 9 6, 7 √ Buttercup – Swamp or Bristly Ranunculus hispidus 4 5 Coneflower - Grayheaded, Old Grayhead Ratibida pinnata √ Rose - Pasture or Carolina Rosa carolina 1,3,6,7,9,10 6 √ Rose - Multiflora Rosa multiflora 1, 3, 6, 7 6,7 Rose - Swamp Rosa palustris 6, 7 √ Black-Eyed Susan Rudbeckia hirta or Rudbeckia fulgida All 6, 7, 8, 9 √ Dock - Curly Rumex, crispus 3, 9 6 √ Rose-pink, Bitterbloom Sabatia angularis √ Bloodroot Sanguinaria canadensis 6, 9 5 Bouncing Bet, Soapwort Saponaria officinalis 1, 9 7 √ Skullcap - Marsh or Common Scutellaria galericulata 9 7 Campion – White or Bladder, Evening Silene latifolia 1, 3, 6, 7 5, 6, 9, √ Lychnis 10 Blue-Eyed Grass - Narrowleaf Sisyrinchium angustifolium 4, 10 5 √ Blue-Eyed Grass - Common Sisyrinchium montanum 3,5 5, 6 √ Blue-Eyed Grass - Needle-Pointed Sisyrinchium mucronatum √ Water Parsnip Sium suave 3, 4, 8 7,8 √ Greenbrier - Bristly Smilax tamnoides 3 6 √ Nightshade - Climbing, Woody Solanum dulcamara 3, 7 6, 7 √ Bittersweet

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Common Name Botanical Name Mile Month Photo Verified Segment date Goldenrod - Tall Solidago altissima 3, 6, 8, 9 7, 8, 9 √ Goldenrod - Blue-stemmed Solidago caesia Goldenrod - Canada Solidago canadensis 1-10 5,6 √ Goldenrod - Late Solidago gigantea 2-5 7,8 Goldenrod – Early or Plume Solidago juncea 5 6 √ Goldenrod - Old Field or Gray Solidago nemoralis 2,3 8, 9 √ Goldenrod - Rough-stemmed Solidago rugosa 4,5 8 √ Goldenrod - Showy Solidago speciosa 3 7,8 √ Sow Thistle - Smooth, Moist or Field Sonchus arvensis 3,4 7, 8 √ Sowthistle -Prickly orSpiny-Leaf Sonchus asper 2, 3, 5, 7 5, 6, 7 √ Meadowsweet – White or Narrow-Leaved Spiraea alba 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10 6, 7, 8 √ Hedge Nettle - Common or Rough Stachs tenuifloia var. hispida √ Stitchwort - Lesser or Grass-Leaved Stellaria graminea 3-5 5, 6 √ Aster - White Heath or Many-Flowered Symphyotrichum ericoides (Aster 3, 5, 9 8, 9 √ ericoides) Aster – Panicled, Lanceleaf or White Symphyotrichum lanceolatum* (Aster 2, 3, 9 6, 7, 8, 9 √ Panicle lanceolatus) Aster - Calico or Side-Flowering Symphyotrichum lateriflorum (Aster 2, 6, 9 9 √ lateriflorus) Aster - New England Symphyotrichum novae-angliae* (Aster 3-6, 8, 9 7, 8, 9 √ novae-angliae+) Aster - New York Symphyotrichum novi-belgii (Aster novi- 8,9 √ belgii) Pimpernel - Yellow Taenidia integerrima 9 6 Tansy - Common, Little Buttons-of-Gold Tanacetum vulgare 4, 5 8, 9 √ Dandelion Taraxacum officinale 2,3, 4, 5, 7, 8 4, 5, 6 √ Meadow Rue - Purple or Tall Thalictrum dasycarpum 1- 10 5, 6, 7 √ Meadow Rue - Early Thalictrum dioicum 3 5 √ Meadow Rue - Waxy Thalictrum revolutum √ Pennycress - Field Thlaspi arvense 3,4 5 √

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Common Name Botanical Name Mile Month Photo Verified Segment date Spiderwort Tradescantia virginiana √ Goat's Beard - Yellow Tragopogon dubius 2-5, 7, 9 5, 6, 7 √ Starflower Trientalis borealis 1,10, AB 5 √ Clover - Greater Hop Trifolium agrarium+ or Trifolium aureu* 3, 4, 9 5, 6, 7 √ Clover - Low Hop or Yellow Trifolium campestre Clover - Red Trifolium pratense 1-5,7,8 5, 6, 7, 8 √ Clover - White Trifolium repens 3-5 5, 6, 7 √ Trillium - White Trillium grandiflorum 5, 6, 7, 9 5 √ Bellwort - Wild or sessile leaved Uvularia perfoliata or sesselfolia 3 5 Cranberry - American, Bearberry Vaccinium macrocarpon √ Blueberry - Wild Vaccinium pensylvanicum 3,8 6 √ Valerian - Common Valerian officinalis Mullein - Moth Verbascum blattaria 2, 3 6, 7, 8 √ Mullein - Common Verbascum thapsus 1-5, 8, 9, 10 6, 7, 8 √ Vervain - Blue Verbena hastata 1-5, 9 6, 7, 8 √ Vervain - Narrow-leaved Verbena simplex 3 8,9 √ Vervain - Hoary Verbena stricta 3 7 Speedwell - Common Veronica officionalis 3 7 √ Speedwell - Thyme-leaf Veronica serpyllifolia 3,4 5 √ Culver’s Root Veronicastrum virginicum √ Vetch - Purple Vicia Americana Vetch - Tufted Vicia cracca √ Vinca , Periwinkle, Myrtle Vinca minor 3 4, 5 √ Violet - Canadian White Viola canadensis 1 4 Pansy - Field Viola kitaebeliana √ Violet - Northern Bog Viola nephrophylla √ Violet - Smooth Yellow Viola pensyllvanica 3-5 5,6 √ Violet - Yellow Downy Viola pubescens

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Common Name Botanical Name Mile Month Photo Verified Segment date Violet - Northern Blue Viola septentrionalis √ Violet - Common Blue Viola soroia or V.papilionacea, V. 1-10 4, 5 √ laiuscula Strawberry - Barren Waldsteinia fragarioides √ Golden Alexanders Zizea aurea 1, 3-7, 9 5,6,7 √

Notes:

• A Dash ( - ) denotes a modifier of a flower name (E.g. Wood Sorrel – Yellow) • A Comma ( , ) denotes a different name • Botanical Names in parentheses () are the old nomenclature, the current preferred name is listed first • Mile segments count from Downtown Midland (mile 1-10 plus the Arbutus Bog (AB)) • Month should indicate month seen blooming

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