Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Sandplain Grassland Community [Fact Sheet] — State Rank S1
Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet.

Shrub Layer
Gaylussacia baccata — black huckleberry
Quercus ilicifolia — scrub oak, bear oak
Vaccinium angustifolium — lowbush blueberry
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Agalinis acuta — sandplain gerardia — RARE (E)
Aletris farinosa — colic-root
Aristida purpurascens — purple needle-grass — RARE (T)
Asclepias tuberosa — butterfly milkweed — RARE (WL)
Baptisia tinctoria — yellow wild indigo, horsefly weed
Carex pensylvanica — Pennsylvania sedge
Danthonia spicata — wild oatgrass, poverty grass
Dichanthelium ovale ssp. pseudopubescens — commons' panic-grass
Dichanthelium scabriusculum — harsh panic-grass
Euthamia spp. — flat-topped goldenrods
Hudsonia spp. — golden heathers — either H. ericoides or H. tomentosa
Ionactis linariifolia — stiff aster, spruce aster
Linum intercursum — sandplain flax — RARE (SC)
Linum medium var. texanum — Texan flax
Malaxis bayardii — barrens adder's mouth — RARE (E)
Schizachyrium scoparium — little bluestem
Sisyrinchium fuscatum — sandplain blue-eyed grass — RARE (SC)
Solidago spp. — goldenrods
Tephrosia virginiana — goat's rue
Viola pedata — birdsfoot violet