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Vermont's Natural Communities By Name

Alder Swamp    ""three examples of natural communities

Alluvial Shrub Swamp    

Alpine Meadow    

Alpine Peatland     

Basin Shrub Swamp    

Black Spruce Swamp    

Black Spruce Woodland Bog    

Boreal Acidic Cliff    

Boreal Calcareous Cliff    

Boreal Cedar-Sphagnum Basin Swamp    

Boreal Floodplain Forest    

Boreal Outcrop    

Boreal Talus Woodland    

Calcareous Red Maple-Tamarack Swamp    

Calcareous Riverside Seep    

Cattail Marsh    

Cold Air Talus Woodland    

Deep Broadleaf Marsh     

Deep Bulrush Marsh     

Dry Chestnut Oak Woodland    

Dry Hemlock-Oak Forest    

Dry Oak Forest     

Dry Oak-Hickory-Hophornbeam Forest    

Dry Oak-Maple Limestone Forest    

Dry Pine-Oak-Heath Sandplain Forest    

Dry Red Oak-White Pine Forest    

Dry Transition Hemlock Forest    

Dwarf Shrub Bog    

Erosional Bluff    

Hemlock Forest    

Hemlock-Balsam Fir-Black Ash Seepage Swamp    

Hemlock-Northern Hardwood Forest    

Hemlock-Sphagnum Basin Swamp

Intermediate Fen    

Lake Sand Beach    

Lake Shale or Cobble Beach    

Lakeshore Grassland    

Lakeside Buttonbush Swamp    

Lakeside Floodplain Forest    

Limestone Bluff Cedar-Pine Forest    

Lowland Spruce-Fir Forest    

Maple-Green Ash Swamp    

Mesic Clayplain Forest     

Mesic Maple-Ash-Hickory-Oak Forest     

Mesic Pine-Oak Sandplain Forest    

Montane Spruce-Fir Forest    

Montane Yellow Birch-Red Spruce Forest    

Northern Hardwood Forest    

Northern Hardwood Seepage Forest    

Northern Hardwood Talus Woodland    

Northern White Cedar Seepage Forest    

Northern White Cedar Swamp    

Oak-Black Birch Talus Woodland    

Oak-Maple Limestone Talus Woodland    

Open Talus    

Outwash Plain Pondshore    

Pitch Pine Woodland Bog    

Pitch Pine-Oak-Heath Rocky Summit    

Poor Fen    

Red Cedar Woodland    

Red Maple-Black Ash Seepage Swamp    

Red Maple-Black Gum Basin Swamp    

Red Maple-Northern White Cedar Swamp    

Red Maple-Sphagnum Basin Swamp    

Red Maple-White Pine-Huckleberry Swamp    

Red Oak-Northern Hardwood Forest    

Red Pine Forest    

Red Spruce-Cinnamon Fern Swamp    

Red Spruce-Heath Rocky Ridge    

Red Spruce-Northern Hardwood Forest    

Rich Fen    

Rich Northern Hardwood Forest    

River Cobble Shore    

River Mud Shore    

River Sand or Gravel Shore    

Rivershore Grassland    

Riverside Outcrop    

Sand Dune    

Sand-Over-Clay Forest    

Sedge Meadow    

Serpentine Outcrop    

Shallow Emergent Marsh    

Silver Maple-Ostrich Fern Floodplain Forest     

Silver Maple-Sensitive Fern Floodplain Forest     

Spruce-Fir-Tamarack Swamp    

Subalpine Krummholz    

Sugar Maple Floodplain Forest    

Sweet Gale Shoreline Swamp     

Temperate Acidic Cliff    

Temperate Acidic Outcrop    

Temperate Calcareous Cliff    

Temperate Calcareous Outcrop    

Vernal Pool    

Wet Clayplain Forest    

Wet Sand-Over-Clay Forest    

Wild Rice Marsh     

Woodland Seep