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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