Title: Forest species
1Forest species
- Woody plants found is successional stages from
old field to mature forest
2Choke cherry Prunus virginiana
3Black cherry Prunus serotina
4Quaking aspen or Popple Populus tremuloides
5Big toothed aspen Populus grandidentata
6White pine Pinus strobus
7Pitch pine Pinus rigida
(seen at the coast)
8White birch Betula papyrifera
9Gray birch Betula populifolia
10Yellow birch Betula lutea
11Red maple Acer rubra
Sugar maple Acer saccharinum
12Northern Red Oak Quercus rubra
White oak Quercus alba
13American beech Fagus grandifolia
14Witch hazel Hamamelis virginiana
15Speckled alder Alnus rugosa
16Balsam fir Abies balsamea
No petiole flat needles
17Eastern Hemlock Tsuga canadensis
From above
From below
18Winterberry
(seen at ponds edge)
19Striped maple Acer pensylvanicum
(stripes turn dark with age)
20Maple leaved viburnum Viburnum acerifolium
Shrub layer Velvet-fuzzy leaves
21Christmas fern Polystichum acrostichoides
22Hop hornbeam or Ironwood Ostrya virginiana
23Ash Fraxinus sp.
24Partridge berry Mitchella repens
Wintergreen Gaultheria procumbens