Common Plants

 
Camp Edwards is home to approximately 543 species of plants, of which ten species are state listed in Massachusetts as Endangered, Threatened, or Special Concern. Below is a list of common plants found on Camp Edwards.
 
 
  • Acer rubrum - common name "red oak"
  • Amelanchier canadensis - common name "oblong-leaf juneberry"
  • Amelanchier sanguinea - common name "round-leaf juneberry"
  • Andrpogon glomeratus - common name "broom sedge"
  • Anemone quinquefolia - common name "wood anemone"
  • Apocynum androsaemifolium - common name "spreading dogbane"
  • Aralia nudicalis - common name "wild sarsapsarilla"
  • Aronia sp. - common name "chokeberry"
  • Asclepias syriaca - common name "common milkweed"
  • Baptisia tinctoria - common name "wild indigo"
  • Carex pensylvanica - common name "Pennsylvania sedge"
  • Centaurea maculosa - common name "potted knapweed"
  • Chamaedaphne calyculata - common name "leatherleaf"
  • Chimaphila maculata - common name "spotted wintergreen"
  • Clethra alnifolia - common name "sweet pepper-bush"
  • Comandra umbellata - common name "bastard toadflax"
  • Corylus americana - common name "american hazel-nut"
  • Cypripedium acaule - common name "pink ladies' slipper"
  • Danthonia spicata - common name "poverty grass"
  • Dennestaedtia punctilobula - common name "hay-scented fern"
  • Deschampsia flexuosa - common name "hairgrass"
  • Dryopteris intermedia - common name "wood fern"
  • Dulichium arundinaceum - common name "three-way sedge"
  • Epigaea repens - common name "trailing arbutus"
  • Equisetum arvense - common name "common horsetail"
  • Gaultheria procumbens - common name "wintergreen; teaberry"
  • Gaylussacia baccata - common name "black huckleberry"
  • Helianthemum canadense - common name "frostweed"
  • Hudsonia ericoides - common name "false heather"
  • Hudsonia tomentosa - common name "wooly heather"
  • Ilex glabra - common name "inkberry"
  • Hypericum gentianoides - common name "orange-grass"
  • Hypericum puncatum - common name "spotted St.John's-wort"
  • Juncus effusus - common name "common rush"
  • Juncus tenuis - common name "path rush"
  • Juniperus virginiana - common name "eastern red cedar"
  • Kalmia angustifolia - common name "sheep-laurel"
  • Lilium philadelphicum - common name "wood lily"
  • Linaria canadensis - common name "blue toadflax"
  • Lonicera morrowi - common name "Morrow's honeysuckle"
  • Lycopodium obscurum - common name "ground pine"
  • Lysimachia quadrifolia - common name "whorled loosestrife"
  • Lyonia ligustrina - common name "maleberry"
  • Maianthemum canadense - common name "Canada mayflower"
  • Melampyrum lineare - common name "American cow-wheat"
  • Monotropa uniflora - common name "Indian pipe"
  • Myrica asplenifolia - common name "sweet fern"
  • Myrica pensylvanica - common name "bayberry"
  • Onoclea sensibilis - common name "sensitive fern"
  • Osmunda cinnamomea - common name "cinnamon fern"
  • Osmunda claytoniana - common name "interrupted fern"
  • Pinus rigida - common name "pitch pine"
  • Pinus strobus - common name "white pine"
  • Plantago aristata - common name "bracted plantain"
  • Plantago lanceolata - common name "English plantain"
  • Plantago rugelli - common name "red-stemmed plantain"
  • Polygonum pensylvanicum - common name "pink knotweed"
  • Polygonum persicaria - common name "lady's thumb"
  • Polystichum acrostichoides - common name "Christmas fern"
  • Populus grandidentata - common name "big-toothed aspen"
  • Populus tremuloides - common name "quaking aspen"
  • Potentilla argentea - common name "silvery cinquefoil"
  • Potentilla canadensis d - common name "warf cinquefoil"
  • Potentilla simplex - common name "common cinquefoil"
  • Prunus serotina - common name "black cherry"
  • Pteridium aquilinum - common name "Bracken ferne"
  • Pyrola rotundifolia - common name ">round-leaved pyrola"
  • Quercus alba - common name "white oak"
  • Quercus coccinea - common name "scarlet oak"
  • Quercus ilicifolia - common name "scrub oak"
  • Quercus prinoides - common name "dwarf chestnut oak"
  • Quercus velutin - common name "black oak"
  • Rhus coppalina - common name "winged sumac"
  • Rubus flagellaris - common name "dewberry"
  • Rubus hispidus - common name "swamp dewberry"
  • Rumex acetosella - common name "sheep sorrel"
  • Salix sp. - common name "willow"
  • Sassafras albidum - common name "sassafras"
  • Schizachyrium scoparium - common name "little bluestem"
  • Scirpus cyperinus - common name "wool grass"
  • Smilax glauca - common name "cat brier"
  • Smilax rotundifolia - common name "common greenbrier"
  • Sparganium americanum - common name "bur-reed"
  • Spiraea latifolia - common name "broad-leaf meadowsweet"
  • Spiraea tomentosa - common name "hard hack"
  • Stachys hyssopifolia hyssop - common name "hedge nettle"
  • Toxicodendron radicans - common name "poison ivy"
  • Triadenum virginicum - common name "marsh St. John's-wort"
  • Trientalis borealis - common name "start flower"
  • Uvalaria sessifolia - common name "bellwort"
  • Vaccinium angustifolium - common name "early lowbush cranberry"
  • Vaccinium corymbosum - common name "highbush blueberry"
  • Vaccinium pallidum - common name "late lowbush blueberry"
  • Viburnum cassinoides - common name "withe-rod"
  • Viburnum recognitum - common name "arrow-root"
  • Viola fimbriatula northern - common name "downy violet"
  • Viola pedata - common name "bird-foot violet"