Atlantic White Cedar Bog
Community
[Fact Sheet]
— State Rank S2 Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet. Tree Layer Acer rubrum
— red maple Betula populifolia
— gray birch Chamaecyparis thyoides
— Atlantic white cedar
— RARE (dominant)
Picea mariana
— black spruce
— western and central MA Pinus rigida
— pitch pine Pinus strobus
— white pine Shrub Layer Andromeda polifolia var. glaucophylla
— bog rosemary
— absent in SE MA Chamaedaphne calyculata
— leatherleaf, cassandra Gaylussacia baccata
— black huckleberry Gaylussacia bigeloviana
— bog huckleberry Kalmia angustifolia
— sheep laurel Rhododendron canadense
— rhodora
— absent in SE MA Rhododendron viscosum
— swamp azalea Vaccinium corymbosum
— highbush blueberry Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers) Drosera spp.
— sundews Sarracenia purpurea
— purple pitcherplant Vaccinium macrocarpon
— American cranberry, large cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccos
— small cranberry Woodwardia virginica
— Virginia chain fern |
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