Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Pitch Pine - Scrub Oak Community [Fact Sheet] — State Rank S2
Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet.

Tree Layer
Betula populifolia — gray birch
Pinus rigida — pitch pine — DOMINANT
Populus tremuloides — trembling aspen
Prunus pensylvanica — pin cherry, fire cherry, bird cherry
Prunus serotina — black cherry
Shrub Layer
Gaylussacia baccata — black huckleberry
Quercus ilicifolia — scrub oak, bear oak — DOMINANT
Quercus prinoides — dwarf chestnut oak
Vaccinium pallidum — hillside blueberry, dryland blueberry
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Carex pensylvanica — Pennsylvania sedge
Epigaea repens — trailing arbutus, mayflower
Hudsonia ericoides — pinebarren golden heather
Melampyrum lineare — cowwheat
Schizachyrium scoparium — little bluestem
Vaccinium angustifolium — lowbush blueberry