Scrub Oak Shrubland
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 Populus tremuloides
— trembling aspen Quercus rubra
— northern red oak Quercus velutina
— black oak Shrub Layer Aronia melanocarpa
— black chokeberry Comptonia peregrina
— sweetfern Gaylussacia baccata
— black huckleberry Kalmia angustifolia
— sheep laurel 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 Carex pensylvanica
— Pennsylvania sedge Danthonia spicata
— wild oatgrass, poverty
grass Melampyrum lineare
— cowwheat Pteridium aquilinum
— bracken fern Schizachyrium scoparium
— little bluestem Vaccinium angustifolium
— lowbush blueberry |
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