Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Sandplain Heathland Community [Fact Sheet] — State Rank S1
Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet.

Shrub Layer
Aronia arbutifolia — red chokeberry
Comptonia peregrina — sweetfern
Corylus cornuta — beaked hazelnut
Gaylussacia baccata — black huckleberry
Quercus ilicifolia — scrub oak, bear oak
Quercus prinoides — dwarf chestnut oak
Vaccinium pallidum — hillside blueberry, dryland blueberry
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Asclepias tuberosa — butterfly milkweed — RARE (WL)
Carex pensylvanica — Pennsylvania sedge
Corema conradii — broom-crowberry — RARE (SC)
Gamochaeta purpurea — purple cudweed — RARE (E)
Hudsonia ericoides — pinebarren golden heather
Linum intercursum — sandplain flax — RARE (SC)
Rubus flagellaris — northern dewberry
Schizachyrium scoparium — little bluestem
Sisyrinchium fuscatum — sandplain blue-eyed grass — RARE (SC)
Symphyotrichum concolor — eastern silvery aster — RARE (E)
Vaccinium angustifolium — lowbush blueberry