State Parks & Forests

Whitefish Dunes

Whitefish Dunes Nature

In the Area

Plant Checklists

Nonflowering Plants at
Whitefish Dunes State Park

Whitefish Dunes State Park is home to many different kinds of mosses, ferns, horsetails, lichens, and fungi. Photo of fern
Photo of fern
Common Name Latin Name

Club Mosses
Running Ground Pine [exit DNR] Diphasium complanatum
Shining [exit DNR] Huperzia lucidulum
Stiff [exit DNR] Lycopodium annotinum
Tree (Princess Pine) [exit DNR] Lycopodium obscurum
Wolf's Claw [exit DNR] Lycopodium clavatum

Ferns

Bracken [exit DNR] Pteridium aquilinum
Cinnamon [exit DNR] Osmunda cinnamomea
Lady [exit DNR] Athyrium filix-femina
Leathery Grape Botrychium multifidum
Maidenhair [exit DNR] Adiantum pedatum
Oak [exit DNR] Gymnocarpium dryopteris
Ostrich [exit DNR] Matteuccia pensylvanica
Polypody [exit DNR] Polypodium sp.(virginianum)
Rattlesnake [exit DNR] Botrychium virginianum
Wood Dryopteris sp.

Horsetails

Field Horsetail [exit DNR] Equisetum arvense
Scouring Rush [exit DNR] Equisetum hiemale

Lichens

Reindeer Lichen [exit DNR] Cladonia rangiferina
British Soldiers [exit DNR] Cladonia cristatella
Pyxie Cups Cladonia Pyxidata
Many Others  

Mosses

 Many

Fungi

 Many

Have a question about an animal or plant? Ask the naturalist, (920) 823-2400.

Last Revised: Friday May 29 2009