- Terrestrial Community Types (Eastern MA)
- Black Oak - Scarlet Oak Woodland
- Chestnut Oak Forest/Woodland
- Coastal Forest/Woodland
- Forest Seep
- Maritime Beach Strand
- Maritime Dune
- Maritime Erosional Cliff
- Maritime Forest/Woodland
- Maritime Juniper Woodland/Shrubland
- Maritime Pitch Pine Woodland on Dunes
- Maritime Shrubland
- Mixed Oak Forest/Woodland
- Oak - Hemlock - White Pine Forest
- Oak - Hickory Forest
- Pitch Pine - Oak Forest/Woodland
- Pitch Pine - Scrub Oak
- Sandplain Grassland
- Sandplain Heathland
- Scrub Oak Shrubland
- Successional White Pine Forest
- Sugar Maple - Oak - Hickory Forest
- White Pine - Oak Forest
- Palustrine (Wetland) Community Types (Eastern MA)
- Acidic Graminoid Fen
- Acidic Pondshore/Lakeshore
- Acidic Shrub Fen
- Alluvial Atlantic White Cedar Swamp
- Alluvial Red Maple Swamp
- Atlantic White Cedar Bog
- Coastal Atlantic White Cedar Swamp
- Coastal Plain Pondshore
- Deep Emergent Marsh
- Highbush Blueberry Thicket
- Interdunal Marsh/Swale
- Kettlehole Level Bog
- Kettlehole Wet Meadow
- Level Bog
- Red Maple - Black Gum Swamp
- Red Maple Swamp
- Sea-level Fen
- Shallow Emergent Marsh
- Shrub Swamp
- Small-river Floodplain Forest
- Estuarine (Ocean-Influenced)
- Brackish Tidal Marsh
- Coastal Salt Pond
- Fresh/Brackish Tidal Shrubland
- Fresh/Brackish Tidal Swamp
- Freshwater Tidal Marsh
- Marine Intertidal Gravel/Sand Beach (no vascular plants)
- Salt Marsh
- Seagrass Community
Community Types (Eastern MA)
HELPFUL LINKS
NHESP Site: Massachusetts Terrestrial, Palustrine, and Estuarine Community Types
(an alphabetic list of communities with links to fact sheets)
NHESP Site: The Key to the Natural Communities Described in the Classification of Natural Communities of Massachusetts