Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Sugar Maple - Oak - Hickory Forest 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 saccharum — sugar maple
Betula lenta — sweet birch, cherry birch, black birch
Carya cordiformis — bitternut hickory, swamp hickory
Carya glabra — pignut hickory
Carya ovata — shagbark hickory
Carya tomentosa — mockernut hickory
Fraxinus americana — white ash
Ostrya virginiana — eastern hop-hornbeam
Quercus alba — white oak
Quercus montana — chestnut oak
Quercus rubra — northern red oak
Quercus velutina — black oak
Tilia americana — basswood, American linden
Shrub Layer
Hamamelis virginiana — witch-hazel
Swida alternifolia — pagoda dogwood, alternate-leaved dogwood
Viburnum acerifolium — maple-leaf viburnum
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Adiantum pedatum — northern maidenhair
Anemone acutiloba — sharp-lobed liverleaf
Anemone americana — blunt-lobed liverleaf
Carex platyphylla — broad-leaved woodland sedge
Elymus hystrix — bottlebrush grass
Erythronium americanum — trout-lily
Eurybia divaricata — white wood aster
Galium circaezans — wild licorice
Geranium maculatum — wild geranium
Geranium robertianum — herb-Robert
Maianthemum racemosum — false Solomon's seal
Uvularia sessilifolia — little merrybells