Sites can be dry for different reasons. A plant which can thrive in dry sand by sending its roots deep is possibly not well-adapted to a site which dries because the soil is thin over bedrock.
- Lead Plant Amorpha canescens
- Field Pussytoes Antennaria neglecta
- Wild Senna Senna hebecarpa
- Purple Praire Clover Dalea purpurea
- Early Saxifrage Micranthes virginiensis
- Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus Opuntia humifusa
- Rock Pink Phemeranthus calycinus
- Gray Goldenrod Solidago nemoralis
- Hooked-spur Violet Viola adunca
- Blue Grama Grass Bouteloua gracilis
- Side-oats Grama Bouteloua curtipendula
- Sweet Fern Comptonia peregrina