Inundated Shrub Swamp Plant List

Graminoids

• short-awned foxtail (Alopecurus aequalis)
• blue-joint (Calamagrostis canadensis)
• sedges (Carex crinita, C. intumescens, C. lacustris, C. radiata, C. retrorsa, C. stricta, and others)
• three-way sedge (Dulichium arundinaceum)
• rattlesnake grass (Glyceria canadensis)
• floating manna grass (Glyceria septentrionalis)
• fowl manna grass (Glyceria striata)
• wool-grass (Scirpus cyperinus)
• puccinellia (Torreyochloa pallida)

Forbs

• swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata)
• nodding bur-marigold (Bidens cernua)
• common beggar-ticks (Bidens frondosa)
• false nettle (Boehmeria cylindrica)
• water hemlock (Cicuta bulbifera)
• jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
• southern blue flag (Iris virginica)
• small duckweed (Lemna minor)
• common water horehound (Lycopus americanus)
• northern bugle weed (Lycopus uniflorus)
• tufted loosestrife (Lysimachia thyrsiflora)
• clearweed (Pilea pumila)
• mad-dog skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora)
• water parsnip (Sium suave)
• bur-reeds (Sparganium spp.)
• skunk-cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)
• common cat-tail (Typha latifolia)

Ferns

• sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis)
• cinnamon fern (Osmunda cinnamomea)
• Virginia chain-fern (Woodwardia virginica)

Woody Vines

• poison-ivy (Toxicodendron radicans)

Shrubs

• black chokeberry (Aronia prunifolia)
• buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
• silky dogwood (Cornus amomum)
• gray  dogwood (Cornus foemina )
• red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea)
• whorled loosestrife (Decodon verticillatus)
• winterberry (Ilex verticillata)
• swamp rose (Rosa palustris)
• swamp dewberry (Rubus hispidus)
• Bebb’s willow (Salix bebbiana)
• pussy willow (Salix discolor)
• highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)

Trees

• red maple (Acer rubrum)
• silver maple (Acer saccharinum)
• yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis)
• musclewood (Carpinus caroliniana)
• ashes (Fraxinus nigra and F. pennsylvanica)
• black gum (Nyssa sylvatica)
• cottonwood (Populus deltoides)
• swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor)
• pin oak (Quercus palustris)
• black willow (Salix nigra)
• American elm (Ulmus americana)