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Sugar Lake Complete Plant List
Common Name
Upland Wildflowers
Blue giant hyssop
Agastache foeniculum
Prairie wild onion
Allium stellatum
Rough blazing star
Liatris aspera
Wild bergamot
Monarda fistulosa
Black-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
Stiff goldenrod
Solidago rigida
Showy goldenrod
Solidago speciosa
Upland Grasses & Sedges
Big bluestem
Andropogen gerardii
Kalm's brome
Bromus kalmii
Fox sedge
Carex vulpinoidea
Upland Trees & Shrubs
Downy arrowwood
Viburnum rafinesquianum
Wet Prairie Wildflowers
Marsh (or swamp) milkweed
Asclepias incarnata
Spotted Joe-Pye-weed
Eupatorium maculatum
Boneset
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Bottle gentian
Gentiana andrewsii
Blue flag iris
Iris versicolor
Meadow blazing star
Liatris ligulistylis
Great blue lobelia
Lobelia siphilitica
Ironweed
Vernonia fasciculata
Culver's root
Veronicastrum virginicum
Wet Prairie Grasses & Sedges
Bluejoint grass
Calamagrostis canadensis
Bottlebrush sedge
Carex comosa
Lake sedge
Carex lacustris
Various sedges
Carex species
Woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus
Prairie cordgrass
Spartina pectinata
Wet Area Trees & Shrubs
Red-osier dogwood
Cornus sericea (stolonifera)
Meadowsweet
Spiraea alba
High-bush cranberry
Viburnum trilobum
Aquatics
Hardstem bulrush
Scirpus acutus
Giant bur-reed
Sparganium eurycarpum
