Although a detailed scientific census of the flora has not yet been conducted at the Neilson Spearhead Center, there is an ongoing list of plants identified by previous caretakers and various researchers. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list for the entire Spearhead Lake tract and there are no museum specimens of the species named.
Common Horsetail
Wood Horsetail
Swamp Horsetail
Scouring Rush
Club Moss
Ground Pine
Virginia Grape Fern
Interrupted Fern
Cinnamon Fern
Sensitive Fern
Spinulose Shield Fern
Crested Shield Fern
Lady Fern
Bracken Fern
American Yew, Ground Hemlock
Balsam Fir
White Spruce
Black Spruce
American Larch, Tamarack
Red Pine
Jack Pine
Dwarf Juniper
Hairy Brome Grass
Kalm’s Brome Grass
Hungarian Brome Grass
Kentucky Blue Grass
Quack Grass
Rye Grass
Timothy
Velvet Grass
Old Witch Grass
Big Bluestem
Beak Rush
Sedge
Bellwort
Wood lily
Asparagus
False Solomon’s Seal
Fasle Lily-of-the-Valley
Twisted Stalk
Nodding Trillium
Blue-eye Grass
Blue Flag Iris
Yellow Ladyslipper
Showy Ladyslipper
Stemless Ladyslipper
Green Rein Orchid
One-leaf Rein Orchid
Ladies’ tresses
Rattle-snake Plantain, Dwarf Checkered
Tway-blade
Smaller Coralroot
Spotted Coralroot
Striped Coralroot
Tall Prairie Willow
Sandbar Willow
Missouri Willow
Trembling Aspen
Big-toothed Aspen
Balsam Popler
Sweetfern
American Hazelnut
Paper Birch
Mountain Alder
Burr Oak
Red Oak
Pin Oak
American Elm
Nettle
Toadflax
Mistletoe
Wild Ginger
Curled Dock
Maple-leaved Goosefoot
Lamb’s Quarters
Pigweed
Wild Four-O-Clock
Purslane
Common Chickweed
White Cockle
Starry Campion
Starry Campion
Night-flowering Catchfly
Bouncing Bet
Kidney-leaf Buttercup
Buttercup
Early Meadow Rue
Tall Meadow Rue
Canada Windflower
Wood Anemone
Virgin’s Bower
Marsh Marigold
Goldthread
Columbine
Baneberry
Canada Moonseed
Bloodroot
Yellow Squirrel Corn
Hoary Alyssum
Shepard’s Purse
Cress
Rock Cress
Alumroot
Bishop’s Cap
Grass-of-Parnassus
Pasture Gooseberry
Bristly Black Currant
Narrowleaf Spirea (Meadowsweet)
Alderleaf Juneberry
Low Juneberry
Hawthorn
Wild Field Strawberry
Wood Strawberry
Cinquefoil
Wood Avens
Red Raspberry
Agrimony
Smooth Rose, Meadow Rose
American Prune Plum
Pin or Wild Red Cherry
Black Cherry
Choke
Red Clover
White Clover
Alsike Clover
Yellow Sweet Clover
Wild Sweet Clover
Black Medic, Yellow Trefoil
American Vetch
Blue Violet
Yellow Violet
Leatherwood
Fireweed
Evening Primrose
Enchangter’s Nightshade
Smaller Enghancter’s Nightshade
Wild Sarsaparilla
Maryland Snakeroot
Poison Hemlock
Hornwort
Bunchberry
Red Osier Dogwood
Roundleaf Dogwood
Wild Geranium
Northern Prickly-Ash
Leafy Spurge
Poison Ivy
Smooth Sumac
American Bittersweet
Sugar Maple
Mountain Maple
Spotted Jewelweed
Redroot
Giant Hyssop
Creeping Charlie
Purple Burgamont
Common Nightshade
Ground Cherry
Mullein
Lousewort
Northern Bedstraw
Bedstraw
Partridge Berry
Northern Bush-Honeysuckle
Mountain Honeysuckle
Wolfberry
Shortstalk Arrowwood
Highbush Cranberry
Red Elderberry
Wild Cucumber
One-sides Shinleaf
Indian Pipe
Trailing Arbutus
Bearberry
Late Low Blueberry
Red Ash
Dogbane
Common Milkweed
Wild Morning Glory
Hoary Paccoon
Bluebell
Purple Boneset
Blazing Star
Early Goldenrod
Canada Goldenrod
Large-leaf Aster
Smooth Aster
Daisy Fleabane
EverlastingSunflower
Pineapple Weed
Colt’s Foot
Bull Thistle
Canada Thistle
Goat’s Beard
Common Dandelion
Perennial Sow Thistle
Prickly Lettus
Rattle-snake-root
Redtop
Blue-joint
Velvet Grass
Sand Reed
Fowl Meadow Grass
Canada Bluegrass
Melic Grass
