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