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Plants of Southern New Jersey

                                                                         
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Vegetation of Coastal Plain Intermittent Ponds of Southern New Jersey 

Range: Outer Coastal Plain

  The palustrine intermittent ponds of the coastal plain are dominated by herbaceous vegetation,. Those that are dominated by shrubs are classified as pine barrens shrub swamps. Endangered species are often encountered in a number of these intermittent ponds.
(Breden, p. 166)
Carex  striata var. striata (walterii)
Walter's sedge
A dominant plant of this plant community
Cladium mariscoides
smooth sawgrass
Coreopsis rosea
pink tickseed
Rarity: S2
Dichanthelium dichotomum
cypress panic grass
Dichanthelium hirstii
Hirst's panic grass
Rarity: S1
Dulichium arundinacium
three way sedge
#Eleocharis equisetoides
horsetail spike rush
Rarity: S1
Eleocharis microcarpa
small fruited spike rush
No image available Lobelia boykinii
Boykin's lobelia
Rarity: S1
Gratiola aurea
hedge hyssop
Lobelia canbyi
Canby's lobelia
Rarity: S3
Ludwigia linearis
narrowleaf primrose willow
Rarity: S2
Muhlenbergia torreyana 
New Jersey muhly
Rarity: S3
Nymphoides cordata
little floating heart
Rarity: S3
Panicum verrucosum
warty panic grass
No image available Panicum wrightianum
Wright's panic grass
Rarity: S2
Paspalum dissectum
mudbank crowngrass
Rarity: S2
Rhexia aristosa
awned meadow beauty
Rarity: S1
Rhexia virginica
Virginia meadow beauty
Rhynchospora nitens
shortbeak sedge
Rarity: S2
Sagittaria teres
slender arrowhead
Rarity: S1
Scleria reticularis
netted nutrush
NO IMAGE AVAILABLE Sphagnum macrophyllum
large leaf sphagnum
Rarity: S2
Xyris smalliana 
Small's yelloweyed grass

Plant listing based on Breden's A Preliminary Natural Community Classification for New Jersey (see Sources, below) and the http://www.plants.usda.gov database.


For more information on rarity,  see the NJ Natural Heritage Database

Image Credits

Image credits, unless otherwise noted:

Renee Brecht, Former Associate Director Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River and Its Tributaries, Inc.

*Robert H. Mohlenbrock@USDA-NRCS Plants Database/USDA SCS. 1989. Midwest wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. Midwest National Technical Center, Lincoln.

**Jennifer Anderson@USDA-NRCS Plants Database

Line drawings, unless otherwise noted:

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database/Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possesions.

#USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database/USDA NRCS. Wetland flora:  Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Sources:

Breden, Thomas F. A Preliminary Natural Community Classification for New Jersey. Reprinted from E.F. Karlin, editor. 1989. New Jersey's Rare and Endangered Plants and Animals. Institute for Environmental Studies, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ. Available online.

Newcomb-Jones, Carol. Salt Marsh Flowers of Southern New Jersey. Self-published, 1996.

Stone, Witmer. The Plants of Southern New Jersey. Quartermen Publications, Inc. Boston, Mass. Reprinted 1973 from 1911 The Plants of Southern New Jersey with Especial Reference to the Flora of the Pine Barrens and the Geographic Distribution of the Species. 

Tiner, Ralph W., Jr. A Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Northeastern United States. University of Massachusetts Press. 1987.

USDA, NRCS. 2008. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 12 August 2008). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
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