Chestnut Oak Forest/Woodland
Community
[Fact Sheet]
— State Rank S4 Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet. Tree Layer Acer pensylvanicum
— striped maple
— NON-NATIVE
Acer rubrum
— red maple Betula lenta
— sweet birch, cherry birch, black birch Pinus rigida
— pitch pine Pinus strobus
— white pine Quercus alba
— white oak Quercus coccinea
— scarlet oak Quercus montana
— chestnut oak Quercus rubra
— northern red oak Quercus velutina
— black oak Sassafras albidum
— sassafras Shrub Layer Castanea dentata
— American chestnut Gaultheria procumbens
— wintergreen, checkerberry, eastern teaberry Gaylussacia baccata
— black huckleberry Hamamelis virginiana
— witch-hazel Kalmia angustifolia
— sheep laurel Kalmia latifolia
— mountain laurel Vaccinium pallidum
— hillside blueberry, dryland blueberry Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers) Aureolaria flava
— smooth false foxglove Aureolaria pedicularia
— fernleaf yellow false foxglove Aureolaria virginica
— downy false foxglove Carex pensylvanica
— Pennsylvania sedge Pteridium aquilinum
— bracken fern Vaccinium angustifolium
— lowbush blueberry |
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