Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Scrub Oak Shrubland 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
Populus tremuloides — trembling aspen
Quercus rubra — northern red oak
Quercus velutina — black oak
Shrub Layer
Aronia melanocarpa — black chokeberry
Comptonia peregrina — sweetfern
Gaylussacia baccata — black huckleberry
Kalmia angustifolia — sheep laurel
Quercus ilicifolia — scrub oak, bear oak
Quercus prinoides — dwarf chestnut oak
Vaccinium pallidum — hillside blueberry, dryland blueberry
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Carex pensylvanica — Pennsylvania sedge
Danthonia spicata — wild oatgrass, poverty grass
Melampyrum lineare — cowwheat
Pteridium aquilinum — bracken fern
Schizachyrium scoparium — little bluestem
Vaccinium angustifolium — lowbush blueberry