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

Tree Layer
Acer rubrum — red maple
Amelanchier arborea — downy serviceberry
Benthamidia florida — flowering dogwood
Betula lenta — sweet birch, cherry birch, black birch
Carya cordiformis — bitternut hickory, swamp hickory
Carya glabra — pignut hickory
Carya ovata — shagbark hickory
Carya tomentosa — mockernut hickory
Fraxinus americana — white ash
Ostrya virginiana — eastern hop-hornbeam
Pinus strobus — white pine
Quercus alba — white oak
Quercus coccinea — scarlet oak
Quercus montana — chestnut oak
Quercus rubra — northern red oak
Quercus velutina — black oak
Sassafras albidum — sassafras
Tsuga canadensis — eastern hemlock
Shrub Layer
Castanea dentata — American chestnut
Corylus americana — American hazelnut
Corylus cornuta — beaked hazelnut
Hamamelis virginiana — witch-hazel
Swida racemosa — gray dogwood
Vaccinium pallidum — hillside blueberry, dryland blueberry
Viburnum acerifolium — maple-leaf viburnum
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Aralia nudicaulis — wild sarsaparilla
Carex lucorum — long-beaked Pennsylvania sedge
Carex pensylvanica — Pennsylvania sedge
Cypripedium acaule — pink lady's slipper
Desmodium glutinosum — cluster-leaved ticktrefoil
Desmodium paniculatum — panicled ticktrefoil
Hieracium venosum — rattlesnake weed
Maianthemum racemosum — false Solomon's seal
Solidago bicolor — silverrod, white goldenrod
Vaccinium angustifolium — lowbush blueberry