Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Deep Emergent Marsh Community [Fact Sheet] — State Rank S4
Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet.

Shrub Layer
Alnus incana — speckled alder
Alnus serrulata — smooth alder, common alder
Myrica gale — sweet gale
Spiraea tomentosa — steeplebush
Vaccinium corymbosum — highbush blueberry
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Acorus calamus — single-veined sweetflag — NON-NATIVE
Bidens spp. — beggar-ticks and bur-marygolds
Carex comosa — bristly sedge
Carex lacustris — marsh sedge, lakeside sedge
Carex stricta — tussock sedge
Cicuta bulbifera — bulblet water-hemlock
Comarum palustre — marsh cinquefoil
Equisetum fluviatile — river horsetail
Euthamia caroliniana — coastal plain slender goldenrod
Galium spp. — bedstraws
Leersia oryzoides — rice cutgrass
Lysimachia terrestris — swamp candles
Lythrum salicaria — purple loosestrife — INVASIVE
Persicaria sagittata — arrowleaf tearthumb
Phalaris arundinacea — reed canarygrass — INVASIVE
Phragmites australis — common reed — INVASIVE
Schoenoplectus acutus — hard-stemmed bulrush — RARE (WL)
Schoenoplectus pungens — common threesquare
Schoenoplectus tabernaemontani — soft-stemmed bulrush
Scirpus cyperinus — common bulrush
Sparganium eurycarpum — giant bur-reed
Typha angustifolia — narrow-leaved cattail — INVASIVE
Typha latifolia — broad-leaved cattail