Get to know the trees, vascular plants and mosses in Elgin County. Learn how to identify them, the habitat they live in, and Best Stewardship Practices for maintaining healthy populations of these rare gems of Carolinian Canada.
Trees
- American Chestnut (Castana dentata)
- Blue Ash (Fraxinus quadrangulata)
- Butternut (Juglans cinerea)
- Common Hoptree (Ptelea trifoliata)
- Eastern Flowering Dogwood (Cornus florida)
- Kentucky Coffee-tree (Gymnocladus dioicus)
- Shumard Oak (Quercus shumardii)
Vascular Plants
- American Water-willow (Justicia americana)
- American Ginseng (Penax quinquefolium)
- Broad Beech Fern (Phegopteris hexagonoptera)
- Colicroot (Aletris farinosa)
- Crooked-stem Aster (Symphyotrichum prenanthoides)
- Dense Blazing-star (Liatris spicata)
- Drooping Trillium (Trillium flexipes)
- Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia humifusa)
- False Hop Sedge (Carex lupuliformis)
- False Rue-anemone (Enemion biternatum)
- Green Dragon (Arisaema dracontium)
- Hill’s Pondweed (Potamogeton hillii)
- Large Whorled Pogonia (Isotria verticillata)
- Purple Twayblade (Liparis liliifolia)
- Riddell’s Goldenrod (Solidago riddellii)
- Small White Lady’s-slipper (Cypripedium candidum)
- Small Whorled Pogonia (Isotria medeoloides)
- Swamp Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)
- Willowleaf Aster (Symphyotrichum praealtum)
Mosses
- Spoon-leaved Moss (Bryoandersonia illecebra)
Species Identification Resources
Trees:
Vascular Plants & Mosses:
- Field Manual of Michigan Flora
- Ontario Wildflowers Identification
- Audubon Wildflowers App
- Ontario Ferns
- Ontario grasses, Sedges and Rushes
- The World of Mosses
Where to Submit Observations?
Species at Risk and Significant Species should be reported to the Natural Heritage Information Centre (NHIC) through their online reporting form. Multiple observations can be submitted by downloading and completing a template spreadsheet. Visit the NHIC website here.
For those participating in the Elgin Natural Heritage Inventory, species lists for trees, vascular plants and mosses, should be compiled using the General Field Data Form and submitted to your local Area Coordinator or to Carolinian Canada Coalition.