Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Maritime Dune 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
Pinus rigida — pitch pine
Shrub Layer
Comptonia peregrina — sweetfern
Lonicera morrowii — Morrow's honeysuckle — INVASIVE
Prunus maritima — beach plum
Toxicodendron radicans — poison ivy
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Artemisia stelleriana — dustymiller, beach wormwood — NON-NATIVE
Danthonia spicata — wild oatgrass, poverty grass
Deschampsia flexuosa — common hairgrass
Hudsonia tomentosa — woolly beach heather
Lathyrus japonicus — beach pea
Lechea maritima — beach pinweed
Lythrum salicaria — purple loosestrife — INVASIVE
Polygonum articulatum — jointweed
Schizachyrium scoparium — little bluestem
Solidago sempervirens — seaside goldenrod
Spartina patens — salt-hay
Vaccinium angustifolium — lowbush blueberry