Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Red Maple - Black Gum Swamp 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
Acer rubrum — red maple
Betula alleghaniensis — yellow birch
Fraxinus nigra — black ash
Nyssa sylvatica — tupelo, black gum
Picea rubens — red spruce
Pinus strobus — white pine
Tsuga canadensis — eastern hemlock
Shrub Layer
Ilex laevigata — smooth winterberry
Ilex mucronata — catberry
Ilex verticillata — common winterberry
Kalmia latifolia — mountain laurel
Vaccinium corymbosum — highbush blueberry
Viburnum nudum var. cassinoides — wild raisin, witherod
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Bidens frondosa — beggar-ticks
Carex intumescens — bladder or swamp sedge
Carex stricta — tussock sedge
Carex trisperma — three-seeded sedge
Coptis trifolia — three-leaf goldthread
Lycopus uniflorus — tuberous water-horehound
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum — cinnamon fern
Rubus hispidus — bristly dewberry
Thelypteris palustris — marsh fern
Thelypteris simulata — Massachusetts fern
Triadenum virginicum — marsh St. John's-wort