PLANTS at
the Olentangy River Wetland Research Park

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KEY:
EW - Experimental Wetlands
BB - Billabong
BLH - Bottomland Hardwood Forest

Sorted by

scientific names

common names

Herbaceous

Abutilon theophrasti (Velvet-leaf) EW, BB
Acorus calamus (sweet flag) EW, BB
Agrostis tenuis (colonial bent grass) EW, BB
Alisma plantago-aquatica
(water plantain) EW, BB
Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) EW, BLH
Allium canadense (wild onion) BLH
Allium tricoccum (wild leek) BLH
Amaranthus cruentus (purple amaranth) EW
Ambrosia artemissiifolia (common ragweed) EW, BB
Andropogon gerardii (big bluestem) BB
Apocynum cannabinum (indian hemp) EW, BB
Asarum canadense (wild ginger) BLH
Asclepias incarnata (Swamp milkweed) EW, BB
Asclepias syricea (common milkweed) EW
Asclepias tuberosa (milkweed) EW, BB
Aster ericoides (white heath aster) EW, BB
Aster novae-angliae (New England aster) EW
Aster prenanthoides (crooked stemmed aster) EW
Aster simplex (panicled aster) EW, BB, BLH
Atriplex patula (Halberd-leaf saltbush) EW
Baptisia alba (white wild indigo) BB
Barbarea orthoceras (American winter cress) EW, BB
Bidens cernua (nodding beggars-tick) EW, BB
Bidens comosa (leafy-bract beggars-tick) EW
Bidens connata (swamp beggar ticks) EW
Bidens frondosa (devil's beggars-tick) EW, BB
Bidens laevis (Brook sunflower, bur marigold) EW, BB
Boehmeria cylindrica (false nettle) EW
Bouteloua curtipendula (side oats grama) EW, BB
Bromus ciliatus (brome grass) BB
Callitriche terrestris (terrestrial water starwort) EW
Calystegia sepium (hedge bindweed) BB

Cardamine pensylvanica (Pennsylvania bittercress) BLH
Carex frankii (Frank's sedge) BB
Carex lurida (shallow sedge) BB
Carex tribuloides (blunt broom sedge) EW, BB
Carex vulpinoidea (brown fox sedge) EW, BB
Cassia fasciculata (showy partridge pea) EW, BB
Cichorium intybus (chicory) EW, BB
Cirsium altissimum (tall thistle) EW
Cirsium arvense (Canada thistle, creeping thistle) EW, BB
Convallaria majalis (lily-of-the-valley) BLH
Conyza canadensis (common horseweed) EW, BB, BLH
Cyperus esculentus (yellow nutsedge) EW, BB
Cyperus strigosus (straw color flatsedge) EW, BB
Daucus carota (Queen Anne's Lace) EW, BB, BLH
Dentaria laciniata (cut-leaved toothwort, crow's foot) BLH
Desmanthis illinoensis (prairie bundle flower) EW, BB
Dicentra cucullaria (Dutchman's breeches) BLH
Dioda teres (buttonweed) BB
Dipsacus fullonum (Fuller's teasel) EW, BB
Echinochloa crusgalli (barnyard grass) EW, BB
Eleocharis acicularis (least spike rush) BB
Eleocharis obtusa (blunt spikerush) EW, BB
Elymus canadensis (nodding wild rye) BB

Enemion bitternatum (Eastern false rue anenome) BLH
Epilobium coloratum (purple-leaved willow herb) EW
Epilobium glandulosum (fringed willow-herb) EW, BB
Equisetum hyemale (horsetail) EW
Erigeron canadensis (horseweed) EW, BB
Erigeron philadelphicus (fleabane)
BLH
Erythronium sp. (trout lily) BLH
Eupatorium perfoliatum (common boneset) EW, BB
Eupatorium serotinum (white snake root) EW
Euphorbia corollata (flowering spurge) EW, BB
Euphorbia nutans (eyebane broomspurge) EW
Galium tinctorium (stiff marsh bedstraw, cleavers) BLH
Galium trifidum (small bedstraw) EW, BB
Gernium maculatum (wild geranium) BLH
Glechoma hederacea (ground ivy) BLH
Glyceria striata (fowl meadow grass) EW, BB
Helenium autumnale (common sneezeweed) BB
Hesperis matronalis (dames rocket) BLH
Hibiscus moscheutos (swamp rose mallow) BB
Hydrophyllum appendiculatum (appendaged waterleaf) BLH
Hydrophyllum canadense (broad-leaved waterleaf) BLH
Hydrophyllum virginianum (Virginia waterleaf) BLH
Hypericum boreale (Northern St. John's-wort) EW, BB
Hypericum punctatum (dotted St. John's-wort) EW, BB
Impatiens capensis (orange spotted touch-me-not) EW
Iris versicolor (Northern blueflag, blue iris) BB
Juncus acuminatus (taper-tip rush) EW, BB
Juncus canadensis (Canadian rush) EW, BB
Juncus dudleyi (Dudley's rush) EW, BB
Juncus effusus (soft rush) EW, BB
Juncus torreyi (Torrey's rush) EW
Leersia oryzoides (rice-cut grass) EW, BB
Lemna minor (lesser duckweed ) EW
Lespedeza intermedia (wandlike bush cover) EW
Leucospora multifida (narrow leaf paleseed) EW, BB
Lindernia dubia (yellow-seed false pimpernel) EW, BB
Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower) EW, BB
Lobelia siphilitica (great lobelia) EW
Lolium arundinaceum (tall ryegrass) BLH
Lycopus americanus (American bugleweed) EW, BB
Lycopus asper (rough bugleweed) EW, BB
Lysimachia nummularia (creeping Jennie) EW, BB
Lysimachia terrestris (swamp loosestrife) EW, BB
Lythrum hyssopifolia (hyssop loosestife)
EW
Lythrum salicaria (purple loosestrife) EW, BB
Melilotus officinalis (yellow sweet clover) EW, BB
Menispermum canadense (moonseed) BLH
Mentha arvensis (field mint) EW, BB
Mimulus ringens (allegheny monkeyflower) EW, BB
Nelumbo lutea (yellow lotus) EW
Nuphar lutea (yellow pond-lily) EW
Nymphaea odorate (white water lily) EW
Oenothera biennis (evening primrose) EW, BB
Oxalis europaea (upright yellow woodsorrel) BB
Oxalis stricta (yellow wood sorrel) BB, BLH


Panicum capillare (witchgrass) EW, BB
Panicum virgatum (hamelin dwarf switchgrass) EW, BB
Panicum virginicum (heavy metal switchgrass) EW
Pastinaca sativa (wild parsnip) EW
Penthorum sedoides (ditch stonecrop) EW, BB
Phalaris arundinacea (reed canary grass) EW, BB
Phleum pratense (Timothy grass) BB
Phragmites australis (common reed) EW
Phyla lanceolaa (frog's fruit) BB
Physalis subglabrata (smooth ground cherry) BLH
Phytolacca americana (pokeweed) EW, BB
Plantago major (common plantain)
Poa compressa (Canda bluegrasS) BB
Polygonatum (small Soloman's seal) BLH
Polygonum hydropiper (water pepper) EW, BB
Polygonum hydropiperoides (mild water pepper) EW
Polygonum lapathifolium (nodding smartweed) EW
Polygonum pensylvanicum (pink knotweed) EW, BB
Polygonum persicaria (lady's thumb) EW, BB
Pontederia cordata (pickerel weed) EW, BB
Potamogeton foliosus (bushy pondweed) EW
Potamogeton natans (floating leaf pondweed) EW
Potamogeton pectinatus (sago pondweed) EW, BB
Prunella vulgaris (heal all) EW, BB
Rhus radican (poison ivy) EW, BB
Rorippa palustris (marsh yellow cress) EW
Rorippa sylvestris (creeping yellow cress) EW
Rudbeckia hirta (black-eyed Susan) EW, BB, BLH
Rudbeckia iancinata (cut-leave cloneflower)
Rudbeckis triloba (thin-leaved coneflower)
Rumex crispus (curly dock) EW, BB
Rumex verticillatus (swamp dock) EW, BB
Sagittaria latifolia (broad-leaf arrowhead) EW, BB
Samolus parviflorus (water pimpernel) EW
Sanicula marilandica (black snakeroot)
Saururus cernuus (lizard's tail) EW
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani (soft-stem bulrush) EW, BB
Scirpus americanus (three square bulrush) BB
Scirpus cyperinus (woolgrass) EW, BB
Scirpus fluviatilis (river bulrush) EW, BB
Setaria viridis (foxtail) EW, BB
Smilacina racemosa (Soloman's plume, false Soloman's seal) BLH
Solanum carolinense (horse nettle) EW, BB
Solidago altissima (tall goldenrod) EW, BB, BLH
Sonchus oleraceus (common sow thistle) EW
Sorghum halepense (Johnson grass) EW, BB
Sparganium eurycarpum (giant burreed) EW, BB
Spartina pectinata (freshwater cordgrass) EW, BB
Spirodela polyrhiza (greater duckweed) EW
Symplocarpus foetidus (skunk cabbage) EW, BB
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion) EW, BB, BLH

Thalictrum dioicum (early meadow rue) BLH
Thaliictrum thalictoides (rue anemone) BLH
Toxicodendron radicans (poison ivy) EW
Trifolium dubium (suckling clover) EW
Trifolium hybridum (alsike clover) EW, BB
Trifolium pratense (red clover) EW, BB
Trifolium repens (white clover) BLH
Typha angustifolia (narrow-leaved cattail) EW, BB
Typha latifolia (wide-leaved cattail) EW, BB
Urtica dioica (stinging nettle) BLH
Verbena hastata (blue vervain) EW, BB
Verbena urticifolia (white vervain) EW
Vernonia fasciculata (prairie ironweed) EW
Vernonia giganta (giant ironweed) BB
Vinca minor (periwinkle) BLH
Viola canadensis (Canada violet)
Viola papilionacea (wild violet)
Viola sororia (common blue violet)
Xanthium strumarium (rough cocklebur) EW, BB

Shrubs/ Trees

Acer negundo (boxelder) EW, BB, BLH
Acer rubrum (red maple) BLH
Acer saccharinum
(silver maple) BLH
Acer sacchrum (sugar maple) BLH
Aesculus glabra (Ohio buckeye) BLH
Asimina triloba (common pawpaw) EW, BLH
Celtis laevigata (sugarberry) BLH
Celtis occidentalis (common hackberry) BLH
Cephalanthus occidentalis (button bush) BB
Chenopodium capitatum (strawberry blite) EW, BLH
Convolvulus sepium (hedge bindweed) EW, BLH
Fraxinus pennsylvanica (green ash) EW, BLH
Gleditsia triacanthos (honey locust) BLH
Ipomoea purpurea (common morning glory) EW, BB
Juglans cinerea (butternut) EW
Juglans nigra (black walnut) BLH
Lonicera japonica (Japanese honeysuckle) BLH
Lonicera maackii (buch honeysuckle) EW, BLH
Maclura pomifera (osage-orange) BLH
Morus alba (white mulberry) BLH
Morus rubra (red mulberry) BLH
Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper) EW, BB, BLH
Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore) EW, BB, BLH
Populus deltoides (Eastern cottonwood) EW, BB, BLH
Populus tremuloides (quaking aspen) EW
Prunus serotina (black cherry) BLH
Salix alba (white willow) EW, BB
Salix amygdaloides (peachleaf willow) EW
Salix babylonica (weeping willow) EW
Salix exigua (sandbar willow) EW, BB
Salix nigra (black willow) EW, BB, BLH
Smilax rotundifolia (roundleaf greenbrier) BLH
Ulmus porecea (English elm) EW
Ulmus pumila (Chinese elm) EW
Vitis vulpina (wild grape) EW, BB, BLH

2007-2008
Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, The Ohio State University