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MARITIME OAK FOREST


This oak-dominated forest is in general proximity of a marine community such as a salt marsh or


the edge of a back dune. These plant communities are heavily influenced by the coastal


processes including salt spray, high winds, flooding and sand deposition. The canopy may be


stunted due to these processes and the understory will be thick with a dense shrub layer and


vines.


Examples Include: Pelham Bay Park-Hunter Island (BX), Paerdegat Preserve (BK), Conference


House (SI), Clay Pit Ponds (SI).


Recommended Plants:


Ferns


Pteridium aquilinum Bracken fern


Graminoids


Carex annectens Yellow-fruit sedge


Carex albicans var. emonsii Emmons Sedge


Chasmanthium laxum Slender woodoats


Carex pensylvanica Pennsylvania sedge


Danthonia compressa Flattened oatgrass


Danthonia spicata Poverty oatgrass


Deschampsia flexuosa Common hairgrass


Forbs


Baptisia tinctoria Yellow wild indigo


Helianthemum canadense Longbranch frostweed


Hieracium venosum Rattlesnake weed


Hypericum hypercoides St. Andrew‟s cross


Lechea mucronata Pinweed


Lespedeza capitata Round-headed bush-clover


Lespedeza hirta Hairy bush clover


Tephrosia virginiana Virginia tephrosia


Trichostema dichotomum Forked blue curls


Vines


Parthenocissus quinquefolia Virginia creeper


Vitis vulpina Frost grape


Shrubs


Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Bearberry


Comptonia peregrina Sweetfern


Epigaea repens Trailing arbutus


Gaultheria procumbens Eastern teaberry


Gaylussacia baccata Black huckleberry

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