Eastern Massachusetts Vascular Plants
The flora of Massachusetts embraces about three thousand species of vascular plants including non-natives. Only about half of those have been recorded for eastern Massachusetts (estimate based on Sorrie and Somers 1999). As of today, the gallery contains 9695 photos of 1097 species. We have published photos of 444 species from the Blue Hills Reservation, 307 species from Myles Standish State Forest, 165 species from Stony Brook Reservation, 176 species from Middlesex Fells Reservation, 154 species from Cutler Park.

To get a list of photographs for each reservation, go to Search and choose that reservation from the list of locations. The links above will take you to our running checklists that include all records — with or without published photos. Other photographs are mostly from southeastern Massachusetts with only some few from the north and west.

Photo Alexey Zinovjev and Irina Kadis, unless stated otherwise; plant identification and captions Irina Kadis; willow identification Alexey Zinovjev
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Ferns and Allies   (44 species, 385 images)

Adiantaceae   1 species  
Aspleniaceae   2 species  
Blechnaceae   2 species  
Dennstaedtiaceae   2 species  
Dryopteridaceae   12 species  
Equisetaceae   4 species  
Lycopodiaceae   8 species  
Marsileaceae   1 species  
Ophioglossaceae   2 species  
Osmundaceae   3 species  
Polypodiaceae   2 species  
Thelypteridaceae   5 species  

Conifers   (23 species, 370 images)

Cupressaceae   6 species  
Pinaceae   15 species  
Taxaceae   2 species  

Monocots   (213 species, 1471 images)

Agavaceae   1 species  
Alismataceae   5 species  
Araceae   5 species  
Commelinaceae   3 species  
Cyperaceae   52 species  
Eriocaulaceae   1 species  
Iridaceae   4 species  
Juncaceae   10 species  
Juncaginaceae   1 species  
Lemnaceae   4 species  
Liliaceae   28 species  
Orchidaceae   13 species  
Poaceae   68 species  
Pontederiaceae   1 species  
Potamogetonaceae   6 species  
Ruppiaceae   1 species  
Scheuchzeriaceae   1 species  
Smilacaceae   3 species  
Sparganiaceae   2 species  
Typhaceae   2 species  
Xyridaceae   2 species  

Dicots   (817 species, 7757 images)

Aceraceae   10 species  
Amaranthaceae   3 species  
Anacardiaceae   5 species  
Apiaceae   14 species  
Apocynaceae   3 species  
Aquifoliaceae   4 species  
Araliaceae   6 species  
Aristolochiaceae   1 species  
Asclepiadaceae   8 species  
Asteraceae   130 species  
Balsaminaceae   1 species  
Berberidaceae   3 species  
Betulaceae   12 species  
Bignoniaceae   2 species  
Boraginaceae   2 species  
Brassicaceae   31 species  
Buddlejaceae   1 species  
Buxaceae   1 species  
Cabombaceae   2 species  
Callitrichaceae   2 species  
Campanulaceae   7 species  
Cannabaceae   1 species  
Caprifoliaceae   16 species  
Caryophyllaceae   20 species  
Celastraceae   6 species  
Chenopodiaceae   16 species  
Cistaceae   10 species  
Clethraceae   1 species  
Clusiaceae   8 species  
Convolvulaceae   1 species  
Cornaceae   7 species  
Crassulaceae   2 species  
Cucurbitaceae   2 species  
Cuscutaceae   1 species  
Dipsacaceae   1 species  
Droseraceae   3 species  
Elaeagnaceae   2 species  
Elatinaceae   1 species  
Empetraceae   1 species  
Ericaceae   28 species  
Euphorbiaceae   4 species  
Fabaceae   49 species  
Fagaceae   17 species  
Fumariaceae   3 species  
Gentianaceae   4 species  
Geraniaceae   2 species  
Grossulariaceae   3 species  
Haloragaceae   4 species  
Hamamelidaceae   1 species  
Hippocastanaceae   1 species  
Juglandaceae   7 species  
Lamiaceae   26 species  
Lardizabalaceae   1 species  
Lauraceae   2 species  
Lentibulariaceae   7 species  
Linaceae   2 species  
Lythraceae   3 species  
Magnoliaceae   2 species  
Malvaceae   3 species  
Melastomataceae   1 species  
Menyanthaceae   2 species  
Molluginaceae   1 species  
Monotropaceae   2 species  
Moraceae   1 species  
Myricaceae   3 species  
Nyctaginaceae   1 species  
Nymphaeaceae   2 species  
Nyssaceae   1 species  
Oleaceae   6 species  
Onagraceae   8 species  
Orobanchaceae   2 species  
Oxalidaceae   2 species  
Papaveraceae   2 species  
Phytolaccaceae   1 species  
Plantaginaceae   4 species  
Platanaceae   1 species  
Plumbaginaceae   1 species  
Polygalaceae   6 species  
Polygonaceae   27 species  
Portulacaceae   2 species  
Primulaceae   10 species  
Pyrolaceae   6 species  
Ranunculaceae   21 species  
Rhamnaceae   3 species  
Rosaceae   61 species  
Rubiaceae   16 species  
Rutaceae   5 species  
Salicaceae   30 species  
Santalaceae   1 species  
Sarraceniaceae   1 species  
Saxifragaceae   4 species  
Scrophulariaceae   23 species  
Simaroubaceae   1 species  
Solanaceae   6 species  
Styracaceae   1 species  
Symplocaceae   1 species  
Thymelaeaceae   1 species  
Tiliaceae   2 species  
Trapaceae   1 species  
Ulmaceae   5 species  
Urticaceae   3 species  
Verbenaceae   2 species  
Violaceae   15 species  
Vitaceae   6 species  

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