Maritime Dune Community
[Fact Sheet]
— State Rank S3 Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet. Tree Layer Pinus rigida
— pitch pine Shrub Layer Comptonia peregrina
— sweetfern Lonicera morrowii
— Morrow's honeysuckle
— INVASIVE
Morella pensylvanica
— bayberry Prunus maritima
— beach plum Toxicodendron radicans
— poison ivy Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers) Ammophila breviligulata ssp. breviligulata
— dune grass Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
— bearberry Artemisia stelleriana
— dustymiller, beach wormwood
— NON-NATIVE
Danthonia spicata
— wild oatgrass, poverty
grass Deschampsia flexuosa
— common hairgrass Hudsonia tomentosa
— woolly beach heather Lathyrus japonicus
— beach pea Lechea maritima
— beach pinweed Lythrum salicaria
— purple loosestrife
— INVASIVE
Polygonum articulatum
— jointweed Schizachyrium scoparium
— little bluestem Solidago sempervirens
— seaside goldenrod Spartina patens
— salt-hay Vaccinium angustifolium
— lowbush blueberry |
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