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"