Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Acidic Graminoid Fen Community [Fact Sheet] — State Rank S3
Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet.

Tree Layer
Acer rubrum — red maple
Chamaecyparis thyoides — Atlantic white cedar
Pinus rigida — pitch pine
Pinus strobus — white pine
Shrub Layer
Chamaedaphne calyculata — leatherleaf, cassandra
Clethra alnifolia — sweet pepperbush
Decodon verticillatus — swamp loosestrife, waterwillow
Rhododendron viscosum — swamp azalea
Toxicodendron vernix — poison sumac
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Carex lasiocarpa ssp. americana — slender woolly-fruited sedge
Carex utriculata — bottle sedge
Cladium mariscoides — twig-sedge
Dulichium arundinaceum — three-way sedge
Eriophorum spp. — cotton-grass
Juncus pelocarpus — pondshore rush
Peltandra virginica — arrow-arum
Pogonia ophioglossoides — rose pogonia
Rhynchospora alba — white beak-rush
Triadenum virginicum — marsh St. John's-wort
Vaccinium macrocarpon — American cranberry, large cranberry