Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Chestnut Oak Forest/Woodland Community [Fact Sheet] — State Rank S4
Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet.

Tree Layer
Acer pensylvanicum — striped maple — NON-NATIVE
Acer rubrum — red maple
Betula lenta — sweet birch, cherry birch, black birch
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
Gaultheria procumbens — wintergreen, checkerberry, eastern teaberry
Gaylussacia baccata — black huckleberry
Hamamelis virginiana — witch-hazel
Kalmia angustifolia — sheep laurel
Kalmia latifolia — mountain laurel
Vaccinium pallidum — hillside blueberry, dryland blueberry
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Aureolaria flava — smooth false foxglove
Aureolaria pedicularia — fernleaf yellow false foxglove
Aureolaria virginica — downy false foxglove
Carex pensylvanica — Pennsylvania sedge
Pteridium aquilinum — bracken fern
Vaccinium angustifolium — lowbush blueberry