Sandplain Heathland
Community
[Fact Sheet]
— State Rank S1 Allocation of plants to certain layers may not match that suggested in the NHESP community fact sheet. Shrub Layer Aronia arbutifolia
— red chokeberry Comptonia peregrina
— sweetfern Corylus cornuta
— beaked hazelnut Gaylussacia baccata
— black huckleberry Morella pensylvanica
— bayberry Prunus maritima var. maritima
— beach plum Quercus ilicifolia
— scrub oak, bear oak Quercus prinoides
— dwarf chestnut oak Vaccinium pallidum
— hillside blueberry, dryland blueberry Herbaceous/Ground Layer (including shrubby groundcovers) Arctostaphylos uva-ursi
— bearberry Asclepias tuberosa
— butterfly milkweed
— RARE (WL)
Carex pensylvanica
— Pennsylvania sedge Corema conradii
— broom-crowberry
— RARE (SC)
Gamochaeta purpurea
— purple cudweed
— RARE (E) Hudsonia ericoides
— pinebarren golden heather Linum intercursum
— sandplain flax
— RARE (SC)
Rubus flagellaris
— northern dewberry Schizachyrium scoparium
— little bluestem Sisyrinchium fuscatum
— sandplain blue-eyed grass
— RARE (SC)
Symphyotrichum concolor
— eastern silvery aster
— RARE (E)
Vaccinium angustifolium
— lowbush blueberry |
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