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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, United States of America: 3 ecoregions. Each with its climate now and toward 2050, and its conservation tier.

Landscape and climate

Three ecoregions cover Massachusetts. The Northeastern Coastal Forests hold the east and the shore, the Northeastern Hardwoods the western hills, and the Atlantic coastal pine barrens cover the Cape and the islands. The first two are in the Nature Imperiled tier. The pine barrens are the distinctive one: a temperate conifer system on deep sand, fire-adapted, and home to a set of plants that will not grow in the richer soil twenty miles inland. A garden on the Cape and a garden in the Berkshires are genuinely different projects, and treating them as one Massachusetts plant list is the usual mistake here.

Native plants of Massachusetts

Species in the catalog recorded as native to Massachusetts, each with its climate-fit grade and planting guidance.

Adam's needle Allegheny blackberry American arborvitae American basswood American elderberry American hazelnut American holly American hophornbeam American persimmon American plum American red raspberry American sweetgum American sycamore Annabelle hydrangea Arrowwood viburnum Balsam fir Beach plum Big bluestem Black cherry Black chokeberry Black oak Black walnut Black willow Black-eyed Susan Bloodroot Blue false indigo Blue vervain Boneset Boxelder Bur oak Butterfly weed California poppy Canada anemone Canada lily Canadian serviceberry Cardinal flower Carolina allspice (sweetshrub)Chestnut oak Chinkapin oak Chokecherry Christmas fern Colorado blue spruce Common blue violet Common hackberry Common hops Common juniper Common milkweed Common ninebark Common sunflower Common witch hazel Common yarrow Creeping juniper Cutleaf coneflower Dense blazing star Eastern cottonwood Eastern prickly pear Eastern red cedar Eastern redbud Eastern white pine Flowering dogwood Foamflower Fox grape Foxglove beardtongue Golden alexanders Gray birch Gray dogwood Groundnut Hardy hibiscus Highbush blueberry Honey locust Indian grass Inkberry Jack pine Lady fern Lanceleaf coreopsis Little bluestem Mapleleaf viburnum Marginal wood fern Mayapple Mountain laurel Nannyberry New England aster New Jersey tea Northern maidenhair fern Northern red oak Northern spicebush Orange coneflower Ostrich fern Pagoda dogwood Pale purple coneflower Paper birch Plains coreopsis Possumhaw viburnum Post oak Prairie dropseed Pussy willow Quaking aspen Ramps Red maple Red mulberry Red pine Red spruce Red-osier dogwood River birch Sassafras Scarlet bee balm Shagbark hickory Short-toothed mountain mint Silky dogwood Silver maple Smooth blue aster Spotted Joe-Pye weed Stiff goldenrod Sugar maple Sunchoke Swamp milkweed Swamp white oak Sweet Joe-Pye weed Sweetbay magnolia Switchgrass Threadleaf coreopsis Trumpet honeysuckle Tulip tree (yellow poplar)White oak White wood aster Whorled milkweed Wild bergamot Wild geranium Wild lupine Wild senna Wild strawberry Yellow birch

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United States of America

Ecoregions here

Atlantic coastal pine barrens Northeastern Coastal Forests Northeastern Hardwoods