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

Shrub Layer
Berberis thunbergii — Japanese barberry — INVASIVE
Clethra alnifolia — sweet pepperbush
Ilex verticillata — common winterberry
Kalmia latifolia — mountain laurel
Rhamnus cathartica — common buckthorn — INVASIVE
Rosa multiflora — multiflora rose — INVASIVE
Swida amomum — silky dogwood
Vaccinium corymbosum — highbush blueberry
Viburnum lantanoides — hobblebush
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Botrychium virginianum — rattlesnake-fern
Carex intumescens — bladder or swamp sedge
Carex scabrata — seep sedge
Carex trisperma — three-seeded sedge
Chrysosplenium americanum — golden saxifrage, water-carpet
Deparia acrostichoides — silvery spleenwort
Equisetum hyemale — scouring-rush
Geum rivale — purple avens
Impatiens spp. — jewelweeds
Matteuccia struthiopteris — ostrich fern
Osmundastrum cinnamomeum — cinnamon fern
Packera aurea — golden ragwort
Polystichum acrostichoides — Christmas fern
Rubus hispidus — bristly dewberry
Symphyotrichum prenanthoides — crooked-stemmed aster — RARE (SC)