Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
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Shallow Emergent Marsh 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
Chamaedaphne calyculata — leatherleaf, cassandra
Myrica gale — sweet gale
Spiraea spp. — meadowsweet, steeplebush
Swida sericea — red osier, red-stemmed dogwood — NON-NATIVE
Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers)
Carex spp. — sedges
Carex stricta — tussock sedge
Eupatorium spp. — boneset
Eutrochium spp. — Joe-Pye-weed
Fallopia japonica — Japanese knotweed — INVASIVE
Leersia oryzoides — rice cutgrass
Lemna spp. — duckweeds
Lycopus spp. — water-horehound
Lysimachia terrestris — swamp candles
Lythrum salicaria — purple loosestrife — INVASIVE
Nuphar spp. — yellow waterlily, spatterdock
Nymphaea odorata — American white waterlily, fragrant waterlily
Onoclea sensibilis — sensitive fern
Phalaris arundinacea — reed canarygrass — INVASIVE
Phragmites australis — common reed — INVASIVE
Phragmites australis — common reed — INVASIVE
Potamogeton spp. — pondweeds
Scirpus cyperinus — common bulrush
Sparganium spp. — bur-reed
Thelypteris palustris — marsh fern
Triadenum virginicum — marsh St. John's-wort
Typha spp. — cattails