State or province

Michigan

Michigan, United States of America: 3 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Three ecoregions cover Michigan and the divide runs roughly with the state itself. All three are temperate broadleaf and mixed forests. The Western Great Lakes forests hold the Upper Peninsula and the northern Lower, the Southern Great Lakes forests the southeast, and the Upper Midwest US forest-savanna transition the southwest. The Southern Great Lakes forests are in the Nature Imperiled tier. The lakes themselves are the practical variable the ecoregion names only imply: they moderate the shoreline enough that the fruit belt on the western side supports plants that fail a short distance inland. Northern Michigan gardens are working with a genuinely shorter season and should plan around it rather than around the state average.

Native plants of Michigan

Species in the catalog recorded as native to Michigan, each with its climate-fit grade and planting guidance.

Adam's needle Allegheny blackberry American arborvitae American basswood American elderberry American hazelnut American hophornbeam American plum American red raspberry American sycamore Arrowwood viburnum Balsam fir Big bluestem Black cherry Black chokeberry Black oak Black walnut Black willow Black-eyed Susan Blackhaw viburnum Bloodroot Blue false indigo Blue flag iris Blue grama Blue vervain Boneset Boxelder Bur oak Butterfly weed California poppy Canada anemone Canada goldenrod Canadian serviceberry Cardinal flower Chestnut oak Chinkapin oak Chokecherry Christmas fern Common blue violet Common hackberry Common hops Common juniper Common milkweed Common ninebark Common sunflower Common witch hazel Common yarrow Creeping juniper Cutleaf coneflower Dense blazing star Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern redbud Eastern white pine Flowering dogwood Foamflower Fox grape Foxglove beardtongue Golden alexanders Gray dogwood Groundnut Hardy hibiscus Highbush blueberry Honey locust Indian grass Jack pine Lady fern Lanceleaf coreopsis Largeflower tickseed Little bluestem Mapleleaf viburnum Marginal wood fern Mayapple Nannyberry New England aster New Jersey tea Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Northern spicebush Ohio buckeye Orange coneflower Ostrich fern Pagoda dogwood Pale purple coneflower Paper birch Pawpaw Plains coreopsis Possumhaw viburnum Prairie dropseed Prairie ironweed Prairie smoke Purple coneflower Pussy willow Quaking aspen Ramps Red maple Red mulberry Red pine Red-osier dogwood River birch River oats Sassafras Scarlet bee balm Shagbark hickory Short-toothed mountain mint Side-oats grama Silky dogwood Silver maple Smooth blue aster Spotted Joe-Pye weed Stiff goldenrod Sugar maple Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp white oak Sweet Joe-Pye weed Switchgrass Trumpet honeysuckle Tulip tree (yellow poplar)Virginia bluebells Virginia iris White oak Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild geranium Wild lupine Wild senna Wild strawberry Woodland phlox Yellow birch

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United States of America

Ecoregions here

Southern Great Lakes forests Upper Midwest US forest-savanna transition Western Great Lakes forests