Table 8-5. (Continued) 



Common name 



Taxonomic name 



Emergent vegetation: perennials and mosses forming dense mats 



Blue-jointgrass 



Water arum 



Sedges 



Water hemlock 



Sundews 



Wild millet 



Grasses 



Bedstraws 



Manna grass 



Marsh st. John's wort 



Blue flag 



Soft rush 



Rice-cut grass 



Water horehound 



Swampcandle 



Purple loosestrife 



Bogbean 



Reed canary grass 



Arrow-leaved tearthumb 



Marsh cinquefoil 



Mermaid weed 



Arrowhead 



Bulrush 



Woolgrass 



Water parsnip 



Sphagnum moss 



Marsh speedwell 



Calamagrostis canadensis 

 Calla palustris 

 Carex spp . 

 Cicuta bulbif era 

 Drosera spp. 

 Echinochloa spp . 

 Eriophorum spp. 

 Galium spp . 

 Glyceria spp . 



Hypericum virginicum 

 Iris versicolor 

 Juncus ef fusus 

 Leersia oryzoides 

 Lycopus uniflorus 

 Lysimachia terrestris 

 Lythrum salicaria 

 Menyanthes trifoliata 

 Phalaris arundinacea 

 Polygonum sagittatum 

 Potentilla palustris 

 Prosperpinaca palustris 

 Sagittaria latifolia 

 Scirpus atrovirens 

 Scirpus cyperinus 

 Slum suave 

 Sphagnum spp. 

 Veronica scutellata 



Scrub/shrub vegetation: shrubs 



Speckled alder 

 Bog rosemary 

 Buttonbush 

 Leatherleaf 

 Black huckleberry 

 Dwarf huckleberry 

 Sheep laurel 

 Pale-laurel 

 Labrador tea 

 Sweetgale 

 Willows 

 Meadow-sweet 

 Large cranberry 

 Small cranberry 



Alnus rugosa 

 Andromeda glaucophylla 

 Cephalanthus occidentalis 

 Chamaedaphne calyculata 

 Gaylussacia baccata 

 Gaylussacia dumosa 

 Kalmia angustifolia 

 Kalmia polifolia 

 Ledum groenlandicum 

 Myrica gale 

 Salix spp. 

 Spiraea latifolia 

 Vaccinium macrocarpon 

 Vaccinium oxycoccus 



(Continued) 

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