Pitch Pine - Scrub Oak 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 Betula populifolia
— gray birch Pinus rigida
— pitch pine
— DOMINANT Populus tremuloides
— trembling aspen Prunus pensylvanica
— pin cherry, fire cherry, bird cherry Prunus serotina
— black cherry Shrub Layer Gaylussacia baccata
— black huckleberry Quercus ilicifolia
— scrub oak, bear oak
— DOMINANT Quercus prinoides
— dwarf chestnut oak Vaccinium pallidum
— hillside blueberry, dryland blueberry Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers) Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
— bearberry Carex pensylvanica
— Pennsylvania sedge Epigaea repens
— trailing arbutus, mayflower Hudsonia ericoides
— pinebarren golden heather Melampyrum lineare
— cowwheat Schizachyrium scoparium
— little bluestem Vaccinium angustifolium
— lowbush blueberry |
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