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Table 4.12. Rare plants and wildlife identified by the Massachusetts Natural Heritage 

 Species Program for the Cape Cod region including the Buzzards Bay watershed I 



O'Brien (1990) 



Species 



Program and Endangered 

 rom VanLuven (1991) and 



Status 



Plants 



Isoetaceae (quillworts) 



Isoetes acadiensis (Acadian quillwort) 

 Ophioglossaceae (adder's-tongue ferns) 



Ophioglossum vulgatum (adder's-tongue fern) 

 Schizaeaceae (climbing and curly grass ferns) 



Lygodium palmatum (American climbing fern) 

 Alismataceae (arrowheads, water-plantains) 



Sagittaria teres (terete arrowhead) 

 Poaceae (grasses) 



Aristida purpurascens (purple needlegrass) 



Dichanthelium wrightianum (Wright's panic-grass) 



Dichanthelium commonsianum (common's panic-grass) 



Dichanthelium mattamuskeetense (Mattamuskeet panic-grass) 



Diplachne maritima (saltpond grass) 



Elymus mollis (sea lyme-grass) 



Panicum philadelphicum (Philadelphia panic-grass) 



Setaria geniculata (bristly foxtail) 



Spartina cynosuroides (salt reed-grass) 



Spenopholis pennsylvanica (swamp oats) 

 Cyperaceae (sedges) 



Carex oligosperma (few-fruited sedge) 



Carex striata (Walter's sedge) 



Eleocharis obtusa (ovate spikerush) 



Psilocarya nitens (short-beaked baldrush) 



Psilocarya scirpoides (long-beaked baldrush) 



Rhynchospora inundata (horned beakrush) 



Rhynchospora torreyana (Torey's beakrush) 



Scleria pauciflora (papillose nutrush) 

 Araceae (arums) 



Orontium aquaticum (golden club) 

 Juncaceae (rushes) 



Juncus biflorus (two-flowered rush) 



Juncus debilis (weak rush) 

 Haemodoraceae (bloodworts, redroots) 



Lachnanthes Carolina (red root) 

 Iridaceae (irises) 



Sisyrinchium arenicola (sandplain blue-eyed grass) 



Orchidaceae (orchids) 



Arethusa bulbosa (dragon's mouth orchid) 



Listera cordata (heartleaf twayblade) 



Platanthera dilatata (leafy white orchid) 



Spiranthes vernalis (grass-leaved ladies' tresses) 



Tipularia discolor (cranefly orchid) 

 Polygonaceae (docks, knotweeds) 



Polygonum puritanorum (pondshore knotweed) 



Polygonum setaceum (strigose knotweed) 



Endangered 



Threatened 



Special concern 



Special concern 



Threatened 

 Special concern 

 Special concern 

 Endangered 

 Threatened 

 Endangered 

 Special concern 

 Special concern 

 Special concern 

 Threatened 



Threatened 



Endangered 



Endangered 



Threatened 



Special concern 



Threatened 



Endangered 



Endangered 



Threatened 



Endangered 

 Endangered 



Special concern 

 Special concern 



Threatened 

 Endangered 

 Threatened 

 Special concern 

 Endangered 



Special concern 

 Special concern 



