Plants of Southern New Jersey

Photos by Renee Brecht

Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River

Vegetation of the New Jersey Coastal Plain Maritime Forest

	Acer rubrum red maple		Amelanchier canadensis Canada serviceberry, shadbush
	Clethra alnifolia sweet pepper bush		*Cornus florida dogwood
	Fagus grandifolia American beech		Hudsonia tomentosa beach heather
	Ilex opaca American holly		Juniperus virginiana eastern redcedar
	Liquidambar styraciflua sweet gum		Morella cerifera wax myrtle
	Morella pensylvanica bayberry		Parthenocissus quinquefolia Virginia creeper
	Pinus rigida pitch pine		Prunus maritima beach plum
	Prunus serotina black cherry		Quercus falcata southern red oak
	Quercus stellata post oak		Quercus velutina black oak
	Rhododendron viscosum swamp azalea		Rosa rugosa rugosa rose; beach tomato
	Sassafrass albidum sassafrass		Smilax rotundifolia catbrier
	*Toxicodendron radicans poison ivy
	Viburnum spp. arrowwood		Vitis spp. grape

Plant listing based on NatureServe's Ecological System Comprehensive Report and the http://www.plants.usda.gov 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:

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.