Howker Ridge • Sub & Alpine Plant Catalog

Alpine heath and subalpine ledges with thin, acidic soils

Woodland edges, semi-shaded thickets, and disturbed forest understories; tolerates poor, rocky or dry soils

Old stumps, logs, and acidic soils in open woods or clearings; often found in mossy, partly sunny forest floor l

Fields, roadsides, and open clearings; disturbed ground with full sun

Shady, moist deciduous and mixed forests; often on slopes, ravines, and along streams in rich woods

Moist woods, bog edges, and streambanks; also found in clearings with acidic, damp soil

Moist, rich northern hardwood and spruce-fir forests; often in shady stream gullies, forest seeps, and at the ba

Mossy, decaying wood in moist conifer forests; rotting logs, stumps, and peaty soil in shaded areas

Moist meadows, streambanks, and open woods; often in swampy thickets or near seeps

Bogs and alpine peat mats; sheltered moist hollows near treeline, krummholz edges

Exposed alpine ridges and talus (felsenmeer); rocky crevices and leeward sides of boulders above treeline

Humid, shaded woodlands with mature trees; grows on bark of both hardwoods and conifers (and occasionally mossy

Alpine and subalpine heath; rocky acidic slopes and mossy bog mats

Hanging from the branches and trunks of trees in moist, cool forests; especially abundant on older or dead trees

Damp, mossy ground in subalpine forests and alpine meadows; often in grassy, unimproved soils with little compet

Shaded forest floors under hardwoods or conifers; well-drained, acidic leaf litter and mossy logs

Temperate forests (deciduous, mixed, conifer); forming cushions on soil, rocks, or decaying stumps in shady, hum

Decaying logs, damp soil, and rock surfaces in forests; prefers moist, shaded to semi-shaded locations with moss

Open, well-drained areas on rock or thin soil; alpine tundra, subalpine ledges, and pine barrens

Open woods, forest edges, and mossy clearings; often on dry, acidic or sandy soil in upland forests