Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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White Pine - Oak Forest Community [Fact Sheet] — State Rank S5
Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet.

Tree Layer
Acer rubrum — red maple
Betula lenta — sweet birch, cherry birch, black birch
Betula papyrifera — paper birch
Carya spp. — hickories
Fagus grandifolia — American beech
Pinus rigida — pitch pine
Pinus strobus — white pine
Quercus alba — white oak
Quercus coccinea — scarlet oak
Quercus montana — chestnut oak
Quercus rubra — northern red oak
Quercus velutina — black oak
Sassafras albidum — sassafras
Shrub Layer
Castanea dentata — American chestnut
Gaylussacia baccata — black huckleberry
Hamamelis virginiana — witch-hazel
Kalmia angustifolia — sheep laurel
Kalmia latifolia — mountain laurel
Vaccinium pallidum — hillside blueberry, dryland blueberry
Viburnum acerifolium — maple-leaf viburnum
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Aralia nudicaulis — wild sarsaparilla
Cypripedium acaule — pink lady's slipper
Dendrolycopodium obscurum — princess-pine or tree clubmoss
Diphasiastrum digitatum — southern ground-cedar
Lycopodium clavatum — running clubmoss, common clubmoss
Lysimachia quadrifolia — whorled loosestrife
Maianthemum canadense — Canada mayflower
Melampyrum lineare — cowwheat
Mitchella repens — partridgeberry
Pteridium aquilinum — bracken fern
Vaccinium angustifolium — lowbush blueberry