Muncie, Indiana is considered to be in the Northern Unit of Indiana forest classification with many different types of soils. The most common trees in this unit are Black Cherry, Silver Maple, Black Walnut, White Oak, Hackberry, Sugar Maple, American Elm, White Ash, Shagbark Hickory, and Black Oak.  You can find these growing in the upper woodland section of the Nature Area at Minnetrista.  The understory plants in a dry upland woods tend to be a combination of grasses and sedges along with various wildflowers (Forbs). Grasses such as Beak Grass, Virginia Wild Rye, or Bottlebrush Grass with sedges such as the Woodland Broome sedge, Short-Headed Bracted Sedge, Straight Styled Wood Sedge, or the Burreed Sedge.  Wildflowers range from the spring blooming Wild Columbine to the fall blooming Wood Asters.  Summer is filled with the White Snakeroot flowers and Joe-Pye Weed.