Friends Promoting the State Natural Area, Prairie Restoration, and native species of these unique old growth forests, rock shelters, and soaring sandstone cliffs. resinosa) or, less commonly, jack pine (P.banksiana), that occur on sandstone outcrops or in thin soils over sandstone in the Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin, have historically been referred to as relicts. The understories often
contain species with northern affinities such as blueberries (Vaccinium spp.), huckleberry (Gaylussacia baccata), wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens), pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata), and partridge-berry (Mitchella repens), ometimes mixed with herbs typically found in southern Wisconsin’s oak forests and prairies.
