Plants of Southern New Jersey

Photos by Renee Brecht

Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River

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.