Shrubs

The woody plants the same sources label shrub rather than tree — dune and wetland species, mostly, and mostly below knee height.

The number on each card is how many pieces of survey evidence name it. It counts documents, not stems. A species named in two hundred stand comments is genuinely common; one named twice may be common and simply unremarked.

alder

14records

Beaver Island

14 evidence records·MDNR forest-inventory stand comments, GLO field notes and MNFI survey appendices

ground hemlock

Taxus canadensis

6records

Garden Island

6 evidence records·MDNR forest-inventory stand comments, GLO field notes and MNFI survey appendices

hazel

Corylus spp.

4records

Garden Island

4 evidence records·MDNR forest-inventory stand comments, GLO field notes and MNFI survey appendices

mountain ash

3records

Beaver Island

3 evidence records·MDNR forest-inventory stand comments, GLO field notes and MNFI survey appendices

willow

3records

Beaver Island

3 evidence records·MDNR forest-inventory stand comments, GLO field notes and MNFI survey appendices