Representative of a natural community in Michigan, this fire-dependent savanna is dominated by oaks. The predominantly grass ground layer is composed of species associated with both prairie and forest communities such as little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) and Pennsylvania sedge (Carex pensylvanica). This garden is abundant with wild lupine (Lupinus perennis) in June.
Oak Savannah Garden Plant List
Full Garden Plant List
What's In Bloom
Nodding Wild Onion
Allium cernuum
Lead Plant
Amorpha canescens
Pussytoes
Antennaria howellii
Wild Columbine
Aquilegia canadensis
Butterflyweed
Asclepias tuberosa
Bicknell鈥檚 Sedge
Carex bicknellii
Redbud
Cercis canadensis
Lance Leaf Coreopsis
Coreopsis lanceolata
Prairie Coreopsis, Stiff Coreopsis
Coreopsis palmata
Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
Poverty Oat grass
Danthonia spicata
Flowering Spurge
Euphorbia corollata
Wild Strawberry
Fragaria virginiana
Alumroot
Heuchera richardsonii
Round Headed Bush Clover
Lespedeza capitata
Rough Blazingstar
Liatris aspera
Marsh Blazingstar
Liatris spicata
Wild Blue Lupine
Lupinus perennis
Beebalm
Monarda fistulosa
Spotted Beebalm, Horse mint, Dotted Mint
Monarda punctata
Ninebark
Physocarpus opulifolius
Bur Oak
Quercus macrocarpa
Orange Coneflower
Rudbeckia fulgida
Black-eyed Susan
Rudbeckia hirta
Little Bluestem
Schizachyrium scoparium
Bluestem Goldenrod
Solidago caesia
Early Goldenrod
Solidago juncea
Showy Goldenrod
Solidago speciosa
Prairie Dropseed
Sporobolus heterolepis
Heart-Leaved Aster
Symphyotrichum cordifolium
Lake Ontario Aster
Symphyotrichum ontarionis
Prairie Heart-Leaved Aster
Symphyotrichum oolentangiense
Ohio Spiderwort
Tradescantia ohiensis
Ironweed
Vernonia missurica
Culver's Root
Veronicastrum virginicum
Golden Alexander
Zizia aurea