SUMMARY LISTS
The following are incomplete lists of plants reported at various places within the park. They may serve as the start or a check for those wishing to know something of the plants in a certain area. The names given are those most commonly used locally or those used to head the corresponding sections above.
COMMONEST SHRUBS ALONG THE HIGHWAY above Headquarters. Sandalwood, mamane, geranium (N. tridens), aalii, ohia, ohelo, pukiawe, mountain pilo, kupaoa.
WIDESPREAD below 8,500 feet. Stereocaulon lichen (mostly on barren lava), pellucid polypody, maidenhair spleenwort, cliffbrake, swordfern, bracken, sedge (Gahnia), sheep sorrel or dock; ulei, mamane, aalii, tarweed, ohia, evening primrose, ohelo, pukiawe, selfheal, plantain, kukaenene, mountain pilo, kupaoa, pamakani, hairy cat’s-ear, horseweed.
SUMMIT FLORA (above 8,500 feet). Mountain pili (grass), trailing pukiawe, tetramalopium sp., kupaoa, common dandelion.
CRATER FLOOR on ash or barren lava. Mountain pili, sheep sorrel, ulei, mamane, bur clover, white clover, cranesbill, aalii, tarweed, ohia, evening primrose, ohelo, pukiawe, selfheal, common plantain, kukaenene, mountain pilo, catchfly, kupaoa, pamakani, hairy cat’s-ear, Canadian horseweed, Tetramalopium humile, silversword.
KOOLAU GAP. Amaumau, rush, mauulaili, tree orchid, sandalwood, pawale, Hawaiian buttercup, trailing akala, native strawberry, nohoanu, apeape, highbush ohelo, trailing plantain, lobelia, wormwood, trailing kookoolau, greensword.
PALIKU. Amaumau, ekaha, akaha akolea, twayblade, alaalawainui, hoawa, akala, kawau, olapa, kolea, manono, lobelia, naenae.
KAUPO GAP. Rush, mauulaili, sandalwood, hoawa, puaainaka, poha, common potato (naturalized), Jerusalem cherry, tree plantain, lobelia, naupaka, Dubautia sp., Railliardia scabra.
Figure 1—SEDGE, Gahnia
Figure 2—HAWAIIAN ORCHID, Liparis
Figure 3—SANDALWOOD, Santalum haleakalae
Figure 4—MAMANE, Sophora chrysophylla
Figure 5—HAWAIIAN RASPBERRY, Rubus hawaiiensis
Figure 6—HINAHINA, Geranium tridens
Figure 7—NOHOANU, Geranium (Neurophyllodes) arboreum
Figure 8—AALII, Seed capsules, leaf detail
Figure 9—OHIA LEHUA, Twig with flower beginning to open
Figure 10—OLAPA
Figure 11—OHELO
Figure 12—PUKIAWE, Twig, flower magnified
Figure 13—KOLEA, showing fruit
Figure 14—MOUNTAIN PILO. Twig, fruits, leaf shapes, magnified flower and leaf showing veination
Figure 15—KUKAENENE, fruiting twig, male and female flowers
Figure 16—CATCHFLY, Silene struthioloides
Figure 17—MAUI WORMWOOD, leaves, magnified flowers
Figure 18—NAENAE, Dubautia plantaginea
Figure 19—KUPAOA, Raillardia menziesii
Figure 20—TETRAMALOPIUM