Alluvial Red Maple Swamp
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 Acer saccharinum
— silver maple Acer saccharum
— sugar maple Carpinus caroliniana
— ironwood, hornbeam Carya ovata
— shagbark hickory Fraxinus americana
— white ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica
— green ash Pinus strobus
— white pine Prunus serotina
— black cherry Quercus bicolor
— swamp white oak Quercus rubra
— northern red oak Ulmus americana
— American elm, white elm Shrub Layer Cephalanthus occidentalis
— common buttonbush Clethra alnifolia
— sweet pepperbush Corylus americana
— American hazelnut Frangula alnus
— glossy buckthorn
— INVASIVE
Ilex verticillata
— common winterberry Kalmia latifolia
— mountain laurel Lindera benzoin
— spicebush Spiraea alba var. latifolia
— meadowsweet Swida amomum
— silky dogwood Toxicodendron radicans
— poison ivy Viburnum dentatum var. lucidum
— northern arrowwood Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers) Bidens spp.
— beggar-ticks and bur-marygolds Boehmeria cylindrica
— false nettle, bog-hemp Calamagrostis canadensis
— Canada bluejoint Carex crinita
— fringed sedge Cinna arundinacea
— common
woodreed Impatiens spp.
— touch-me-not Leersia oryzoides
— rice
cutgrass Lycopus spp.
— water horehounds Onoclea sensibilis
— sensitive fern Osmunda regalis
— royal fern Osmundastrum cinnamomeum
— cinnamon fern Solidago spp.
— goldenrods Symplocarpus foetidus
— skunk cabbage |
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