Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Black Oak - Scarlet Oak Woodland Community [Fact Sheet] — State Rank S3S4
Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet.

Tree Layer
Acer rubrum — red maple
Benthamidia florida — flowering dogwood
Betula populifolia — gray birch
Prunus serotina — black cherry
Quercus alba — white oak
Quercus coccinea — scarlet oak
Quercus velutina — black oak
Sassafras albidum — sassafras
Shrub Layer
Amelanchier spp. — shadbush
Corylus americana — American hazelnut
Gaylussacia baccata — black huckleberry
Kalmia angustifolia — sheep laurel
Quercus ilicifolia — scrub oak, bear oak
Vaccinium pallidum — hillside blueberry, dryland blueberry
Viburnum acerifolium — maple-leaf viburnum
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Carex pensylvanica — Pennsylvania sedge
Cypripedium acaule — pink lady's slipper
Gaultheria procumbens — wintergreen, checkerberry, eastern teaberry
Pteridium aquilinum — bracken fern
Vaccinium angustifolium — lowbush blueberry