Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Kettlehole Wet Meadow 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
Nyssa sylvatica — tupelo, black gum
Quercus bicolor — swamp white oak
Shrub Layer
Cephalanthus occidentalis — common buttonbush
Chamaedaphne calyculata — leatherleaf, cassandra
Decodon verticillatus — swamp loosestrife, waterwillow — semi-woody
Vaccinium corymbosum — highbush blueberry
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Agrostis stolonifera — marsh benthgrass — NON-NATIVE
Bidens spp. — beggar-ticks, bur-marigold
Carex stricta — tussock sedge
Dichanthelium spp. — panic-grass
Glyceria acutiflora — sharp-scaled mannagrass
Glyceria pallida — pale mannagrass — syn.: Torreyochloa pallida
Juncus canadensis — marsh or Canada rush
Juncus militaris — bayonet rush
Juncus pelocarpus — pondshore rush
Panicum spp. — panic-grass
Schoenoplectus torreyi — Torrey's bulrush
Scirpus atrocinctus — black-girdled woolsedge, dusky woolgrass
Scirpus cyperinus — common bulrush
Scirpus hattorianus — meadow bulrush
Scirpus microcarpus — red-stemmed bulrush
Thelypteris palustris — marsh fern