Rich Tamarack Swamp Plant List

Graminoids

• blue-joint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
• sedges (Carex bromoides, C. comosa, C. disperma, C. hystericina, C. lacustris, C. leptalea, C. stricta, and others)
• wood reedgrass (Cinna arundinacea)
• fowl manna grass (Glyceria striata)
• cut grass (Leersia oryzoides)
• fowl meadow grass (Poa palustris)

Forbs

• jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum)
• nodding bur-marigold (Bidens cernua)
• tall swamp-marigold (Bidens trichosperma)
• false nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica)
• marsh-marigold (Caltha palustris)
• spring cress (Cardamine bulbosa)
• Pennsylvania bitter cress (Cardamine pensylvanica)
• cuckoo-flower (Cardamine pratensis)
• turtlehead (Chelone glabra)
• water hemlock (Cicuta bulbifera)
• goldthread (Coptis trifolia)
• small yellow lady-slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum var. makasin)
• flat-topped white aster (Doellingeria umbellata)
• willow-herbs (Epilobium spp.)
• bedstraws (Galium asprellum, G. labradoricum, G. tinctorium, and others)
• northern bugle weed (Lycopus uniflorus)
• tufted loosestrife (Lysimachia thyrsiflora)
• Canada mayflower (Maianthemum canadense)
• false mayflower (Maianthemum trifolium)
• swamp saxifrage (Micranthes pensylvanica)
• bishop’s-cap (Mitella diphylla)
• golden ragwort (Packera aurea)
• clearweed (Pilea pumila)
• club-spur orchid (Platanthera clavellata)
• great water dock (Rumex orbiculatus)
• black snakeroot (Sanicula marilandica)
• pitcher-plant (Sarracenia purpurea)
• common skullcap (Scutellaria galericulata)
• mad-dog skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora)
• goldenrods (Solidago patula, S. rugosa, and others)
• smooth swamp aster (Symphyotrichum firmum)
• panicled aster (Symphyotrichum lanceolatum)
• calico aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum)
• swamp aster (Symphyotrichum puniceum)
• skunk-cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
• starflower (Trientalis borealis)
• violets (Viola spp.)

Ferns

• crested shield fern (Dryopteris cristata)
• sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
• cinnamon fern (Osmunda cinnamomea)
• royal fern (Osmunda regalis)
• marsh fern (Thelypteris palustris)

Fern Allies

• water horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile)

Mosses

• brown mosses (Family Amblystegiaceae)
• sphagnum mosses (Sphagnum spp.)

Woody Vines

• virgin’s bower (Clematis virginiana)
• red honeysuckle (Lonicera dioica)
• Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
• poison-ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)
• riverbank grape (Vitis riparia)

Shrubs

• black chokeberry (Aronia prunifolia)
• bog birch (Betula pumila)
• dogwoods (Cornus amomum, C. foemina, and C. sericea)
• American hazelnut (Corylus americana)
• winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
• alder-leaved buckthorn (Rhamnus alnifolia)
• swamp gooseberry (Ribes hirtellum)
• swamp rose (Rosa palustris)
• dwarf raspberry (Rubus pubescens)
• wild red raspberry (Rubus strigosus)
• willows (Salix bebbiana, S. discolor, S. serissima, and others)
• poison sumac (Toxicodendron vernix)
• smooth highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)
• nannyberry (Viburnum lentago)

Trees

• red maple (Acer rubrum)
• yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis)
• musclewood (Carpinus caroliniana)
• black ash (Fraxinus nigra)
• red-cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
• tamarack (Larix laricina)
• white pine (Pinus strobus)
• quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)
• swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor)
• American elm (Ulmus americana)