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Inland Red Maple Swamp (Palustrine - Closed Canopy)
A community typically found in the Highlands (e.g., Mahlon Dickerson Reservation and Jockey Hollow) and
the Piedmont with the following vegetation:
Dominant Tree:
Maple, Red
Common Trees:
Ash, Black Ash, White Birch, White Maple, Red
Ash, Green Birch, Black Birch, Yellow Sour Gum
Common Shrubs/Vines:
Alder, Speckled Buttonbush Spicebush Winterberry
Azalea, Swamp Highbush blueberry Sweet pepper bush
Common Herbs:
Fern, Cinnamon Marsh Marigold Skunk Cabbage Swamp Saxifrage
Fern, Marsh Scarlet Cardinal Flower Sphagnum Moss Violet
Fern, Sensitive
The forested swamp in the Piedmont is the most distinctive plant community differentiating this physiographic
province from the Highlands. Vegetation includes the following:
Dominant Tree:
Maple, Red
Common Trees:
Ash Elm Oak, Pin Sycamore
Blackgum Maple, Silver Oak, Swamp White Willow
Occasional Tree:
Birch, Yellow
Common Shrubs/Vines:
Arrowwood Shadbush Viburnum
Mountain Laurel Spicebush Witch Hazel
Herbs:
Fern
Marsh Marigold
Mosses
Orchids
Skunk Cabbage
Trillium
* Low Rough Aster
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