Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
Explore [Plants Characteristic of Each Community Type] or [Community Types Where Each Plant Is Present]
Coastal Plain Pondshore Community [Fact Sheet] — State Rank S3
Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet.

Shrub Layer
Chamaedaphne calyculata — leatherleaf, cassandra — missing in fact sheet
Clethra alnifolia — sweet pepperbush
Ilex glabra — inkberry — missing in fact sheet
Smilax rotundifolia — catbrier, bullbrier
Vaccinium corymbosum — highbush blueberry
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Agalinis purpurea — purple false foxglove
Coreopsis rosea — pink tickseed — RARE (WL)
Cyperaceae spp. — sedge family plants
Eleocharis robbinsii — Robbins' spike-rush
Eleocharis spp. — spikerushes
Eriocaulon aquaticum — pipewort, white buttons
Eupatorium perfoliatum — boneset, thoroughwort
Euthamia caroliniana — coastal plain slender goldenrod
Gratiola aurea — golden hedgehyssop
Hypericum mutilum — dwarf St. John's-wort
Juncus militaris — bayonet rush
Juncus pelocarpus — pondshore rush
Juncus spp. — rushes
Rhynchospora spp. — beak rushes, bald sedges, horned sedges
Viola lanceolata — bog white violet, lanceleaf violet